Peter Idley's Instructions to his son /
edited, with introd. and notes by Charlotte D'Evelyn.

Description

Main Author

Idle, Peter, -1474?

Related Names

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338.
D'Evelyn, Charlotte, 1889-, editor.
Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century.

Language(s)

English

Published

Published by the Modern language Association of america. Boston : Heath and Co. ; 1935.

Subjects

English poetry > English poetry / Middle English.
Idley, Peter.
English poetry > English poetry / Middle English, 1100-1500.
English poetry

Summary

A fifteenth century didactic poem in two books, the first of which is based on two Latin treatises of Albertano da Brescia, Liber consolationis and Liber de amore Dei and the second on Mannyng's Handlyng synne and Lydgates's Fall of princes.

Note

"List of abbreviated titles"; p. 211-212.
Printed from Cambridge university ms. Ee. 4.37 (E).
A fifteenth century didactic poem in two books, the first of which is based on two Latin treatises of Albertano da Brescia, Liber consolationis and Liber de amore Dei and the second on R. Mannyng's Handlyng synne and Lydgates's Fall of princes.

Physical Description

vii, 240 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 25 cm.

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