Text name |
The Book of Vices and Virtues |
File name |
cmvices4.m34 |
Manuscript |
HM 147, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA |
Date |
c1450 (c1400) |
Dialect |
East Midlands (with Southern mix, also some connection
to North) |
Genre |
Religious treatise |
Edition |
Francis, Winthrop N.
1942.
The book of vices and virtues: A fourteenth century
English translation of the Somme le roi of Lorens
D'Orléans.
EETS O.S. 217.
London:
Oxford University Press. |
Sample |
Pp. 97.8-116.25 |
Remarks |
A translation of the French work Somme le Roi (also known as Le
Somme des Vices et des Virtues, Li Libres Roiaux de Vices et de
Vertues, Le Livre des Commandmens, Le Miroir du Monde).
The Ayenbite of Inwyt is an earlier
translation of the same work.
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