English translation by George Kline and Brodsky, drafts and printed version, Includes letters from Kline to Brodsky and to Ann Kjellberg., Most versos blank., and Some corrections in ms.
3d print., October, 1929." and With manuscript notes by the author and 2 typed poems mounted on p. [90-91]; inscribed: "This book was used for lecture programs for several seasons ... Langston Hughes. New York, August 4, 1947.
Manuscript, on paper, in three hands (Anglicana and early secretary), produced in northern England, probably Durham, during the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
Description:
Binding: original oak boards, with leather or vellum spine missing. The middles of the quires are bound with fragments of a Latin theological manuscript of the fourteenth century., Contains name "Roger? Willims" on f. 56r., and The text of the poem is incomplete, beginning at line 2501 and ending at line 12363, with gaps. It includes an "interpolation" of 126 lines between lines 6546 and 6547 which consists of lines 5377-5414 of the Anglo-Norman poem on which Mannyng's translation is based, "Le Manuel des Pechiez (Peches)."
Subject (Name):
Mannyng, Robert,--fl. 1288-1338.--Handlyng synne
Subject (Topic):
Confession--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Poetry, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sin--Poetry
Paged continuously. and Title page of vol. 1. wanting. Title taken from title page of vol. 2. Four stanzas at the beginning of Canto XVI parte II wanting.
"Third printing, May, 1924"--Title page verso. and Autograph and manuscript notes of Edward Davison. Printed copy of Frost's Middletown murder tipped to rear endleaves.