Piers Plowman : a guide to the quotations

174 Pages·1992·7 MB·English

by  Alford, John A., 1938-

Piers Plowman
A GUIDE TO THE QUOTATIONS
medieval & Renaissance
texts & studies
VOLUME 77
Piers Plowman
A GUIDE
TO THE QUOTATIONS
John A. Alford
medieval & Renaissance texts & studies
Binghamton, New York
1992
© Copyright 1992
Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies
State University of New ork at Binghamton
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alford, John A., 1938-
Piers Plowman : a guide to the quotations / John A. Alford.
cm. - (Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies : v. 77.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-86698-088-1
1. Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers the Plowman.
2. Langland, illiam, 1330?-1400?-Knowledge and learning .
3. Quotations in literature. I. Title. II. Series.
PR2017.Q67A44 1992
821'.1-dc2O 91-31220
CIP
This book is made to last.
It is set in Antiqua, smythe-sewn
and printed on acid-free paper
to library specifications
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction I
Editorial Treatment of the Quotations 3
Line Numbers 3
The Use of Italics 9
The Text 14
The Question of Sources 16
The Scriptural Quotations 17
The Non-Scriptural Quotations 24
The Indexes
1. The Latin and French Quotations 31
2. The Biblical Quotations 119
3. Alphabetical Index 137

Acknowledgments
I OULD LIKE TO THANK the following persons for their help in this
guide: Stephen A. Barney, Andrew Galloway, Ralph Hanna III,
Traugott Lawler, and M. Teresa Tavormina, for their suggestions ;
Kathleen Blumreich Moore and Margaret esseling, for checking
the accuracy of the citations ; Joseph S. ittig, for providing a com-
puter printout of the Athlone edition of the C version; and above all,
George Russell and George Kane, for giving me permission to cite it
before publication.

Abbreviations
Alford 1972 John A. Alford, "Piers Plowman B.xviii.390: 'Til
Parce It Hote.' " MP 69 (1972): 323-25.
Alford 1975 , "Some Unidentified Quotations in Piers
Plowman." MP72 (1975): 390-99.
Alford 1977 , "The Role of the Quotations in Piers Plow-
man." Speculum 52 (1977): 80-99.
Alford 1984 , "More Unidentified Quotations in Piers
Plowman." MP81 (1984): 146-49.
Alford 1988a , ed., A Companion to Piers Plowman. Berke-
ley: Univ. of California Press, 1988.
Alford 1988b , Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988.
Auctores Octo Auctores Octo cum Commento. London: Jacobus
Myt, 1514.
A Authorized ersion
Bennett J. A. . Bennett, ed., Piers Plowman: The Prologue
and Passus I- II of the B text as found in Bodleian
MS. Laud 581. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
Brev. Breviarium ad Usum Insignis Ecclesiae Sarum, ed.
Francis Procter and Christopher ordsworth. 3
vols. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1879.
Brinton The Sermons of Thomas Brinton, Bishop of Rochester
(1373-1389), ed. M. A. Devlin. 2 vols. Camden
Society, 3d ser., vols 85 and 86. London: Royal
Historical Society, 1954.
Bromyard John Bromyard, Summa Praedicantium. 2 vols.
enice, 1586. Cited by volume, folio, and col-
umn (e.g., 1:201/2).
X
Cato Disticha Catonis. Recensuit et Apparatu Critico In-
struxit, ed. Marcus Boas and Henricus Johannes
Botschuyer. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1952
(cited by book and number);'also Dicta Catonis
(Disticha Catonis), ed. J. right Duff and Arnold
M. Duff,Minor Latin Poets, 585-633. Loeb Classi-
cal Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ.
Press, 1934.
CIC Corpus Iuris Canonici, ed. Aemilius Friedberg. 2
vols. Graz: Akademische Druck u. erlagsanstalt,
1955.
CT Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, in The
Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987.
EETS Early English Text Society. Oxford and London.
Cited by title and volume.
ELH English Literary History
es extra series (Early English Text Society)
Foedera Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, et cuiuscunque Gene-
ric Acta Publica, inter Reges Angliae, ed. Thomas
Rymer. 2d ed. London: Tonson, 1728.
FM Fasciculus Morum: A Fourteenth-Century Preacher's
Handbook, ed. and trans. Siegfried enzel. Uni-
versity Park: The Pennsylvania State Univ. Press,
1989.
Graces Latin Graces. Ed. F. J. Furnivall in The Babees
Book, 382-96. EETS 32 (1868).
Glunz Hans Glunz, History of the ulgate in England.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1933.
Gratian Decretum Magistri Gratianior Concordia Discordan-
tium Canonum. ol. 1 of Corpus Iuris Canonici
(CIC).
Gray Nick Gray, "Langland's Quotations from the
Penitential Tradition." MP 84 (1986): 53-60.
Horstman Carl Horstman, ed., orkshire riters: Richard
Rolle of Hampole . . . and His Followers. 2 vols.
London: Sonnenschein, 1895.
Hort Greta Hort, Piers Plowman and Contemporary
Religious Thought. New ork: Macmillan, 1938.
Hugh Hugh of St. Cher, Postillae in Universa Biblia. 7
vols. Lyons, 1667.
JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology