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""The Owl and the Nightingale"" and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)

Edited and translated by Susanna Fein

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Made in the West Midlands in the thirteenth century, Oxford Jesus College, MS 29 (II) provides an anthology described by volume editor Susanna Fein as â€œthe most abundant, most persistently English assemblage of imaginative short poems to turn up in the period between the tenth-century Old English Exeter Book and the mid-fourteenth-century Harley Lyrics.â€ Moralizing, witty, assertively English, and pragmatic about life and the afterlife, the anthology reflects the personality, erudition, and interests of its lone scribe; it includes the learned debate poem â€œThe Owl and the Nightingaleâ€; Thomas of Halesâ€™s â€œLove Rune,â€ the first known English Franciscan lyric; â€œThe Proverbs of Alfred,â€ collected wisdom attributed to Alfred the Great; and twenty-five additional works, many of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Feinâ€™s edition presents all of Jesus 29â€™s English materials in facing-page translation, supplementing their challenging early Middle English with modern English translations for students and advanced scholars alike.