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OCTOVIAN [octavian] Edited from Lincoln, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2. 38
by McSparran, Frances
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0197222919
- ISBN 13
- 9780197222911
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Early English Text Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0197222919 . Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 289; 244 pages; 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name. [1] This Middle English version exists in three manuscript copies and in two separate compositions, one of which may have been written by the 14th century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose own mother deceives him into sending his wife and his two new-born sons into exile and likely death. After many adventures, the family are at last reunited and the guilty mother-in-law appropriately punished. .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8015
- Title
- OCTOVIAN [octavian] Edited from Lincoln, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2. 38
- Author
- McSparran, Frances
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0197222919
- ISBN 13
- 9780197222911
- Publisher
- Early English Text Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0197222919, Middle English, EETS Early English Text Society
- Bookseller catalogs
- Middle English;
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