DIMEV 3947
IMEV 2473
NIMEV 2473
O Jesu that madest the heavens clear
The Fifteen O’s — nine stanzas rhyme royal
Subjects: fifteen, O’s of Christ; Christ, fifteen O’s
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Longleat, Marquess of Bath MS 30, ff. 13
v-16
First Lines:Ihesu þat madest þe heuenes clere
Enlumined wiþ
sterres bright…
Last Lines:…And lede hit with þe in to þat place
Where men may
se þe brightnesse of þi face
Note: Final lines followed by ‘O Pater noster Aue maria / Ihesu
and three ruled, blank lines, with the verso also ruled and left
blank.
Attributed Title: O Pater noster Aue maria (before every stanza)
2.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 142 [olim Bement], ff. 11
v-14
First Lines:O Ihesu þat madest þe heuenes clere
Enlumined wiþ
sterres bryght…
Last Lines:…And lede hit with þe in to þat place
Where men may
se þe brightnesse of þi face
Note: Nine stanzas; ends imperfectly.
Attributed Title: Pater noster. Aue maria (before every stanza)
Editions: Schulz, Herbert. C.
“Middle English Texts from the ‘Bement’ Manuscript.”
Huntington Library Quarterly
3 (1940): 440-65: 452-7.