DIMEV 4431
IMEV 2791
NIMEV 2791
Queen of heaven of hell eke empress
John Lydgate, Verses On the Five Joys addressed to the Virgin Mary —
seven 8-line stanzas(ababbcbc) and an Envoy of 28 lines (3 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc and
four-line verba compilatoris, abba)
Author(s): John Lydgate
Subjects: Virgin Mary, joys of; envoys
Versification: —
eight-line, four-line —
ababbcbc, abba
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Hatton 73 (SC 4119), ff. 119
v-120
v
First Lines:Qvene of heuen and of helle emperresse
Lady of this worlde verrey
lode sterre…
Last Lines:…To make you strong be ware forgete hem nought
On cristes
passioun and on hir Ioyes fyve
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 683 (SC 798), ff. 17-19
First Lines:Queen of hevene of helle eek Empresse
lady of this world o verray
loode sterre…
Last Lines:…on cristis passioun and on hir Ioies ffyve
to make yow strong
be war for get hem nouht
Note: Envoy complete, not only 20 lines as recorded in
Brown and Robbins (1943)
XCarleton Fairchild Brown, and Rossell Hope Robbins.
The Index of Middle English Verse.
New York: Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press,
1943
.
Attributed Title: Here begynneth a prayer on to our lady (f. 17)
3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.48 (SC 11914), f. 80
First Lines:QVeen of heuene of Helle eek emperesse
lady of this world o varray
lood sterr…
Last Lines:…On cristis passioun and on hir Ioies fyue
make you strong bi
war for gete hem nouht
Note: Envoy complete, not only 20 lines as recorded in
Brown and Robbins (1943)
XCarleton Fairchild Brown, and Rossell Hope Robbins.
The Index of Middle English Verse.
New York: Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press,
1943
.
Attributed Title: Here begynneth a prayer on to our lady (f. 17)
4.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Tanner 110 (SC 9936), ff. 241-241
v
First Lines:Qwene of heuene of helle eeke Emperesse
Lady of thys world Oo verray
lood sterre…
Last Lines:…Thy sounes Passioun knet with hys woundes fyue
Of Modirly Pite
by Mediacoun
Note: Lines 1-54; at the beginning in the same hand: ‘Maria Ihesus
Iohannes’.
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble,
ed.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. I: Religious Poems.
EETS
e.s. 107 (1911; repr. 1961): 284-7.
5.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Tanner 110 (SC 9936), ff. 244-244
v
First Lines:Qween of heuene of helle eeke Emperesse
Lady of this world O verray
loodsterre…
Last Lines:…On Cristys passyoun and on hir Ioyes fyve
To make you strong
bewar forget hem nouht
Note: Second occurrence in this MS; written by a different hand(?); ten 8-line
stanzas and one quatrain.
6.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.6, ff. 199-200
v
First Lines:Qvene of heuene of Helle eeke Emperesse
Lady of this Worlde O verrey
loode sterre…
Last Lines:…On cristus Passion & on here Ioyes ffyue
To make ȝow
stronge be war for get hem nought
Attributed Author: Lydgate (f. 199); Quod dan Iohn Lydgate (f. 200v)
Attributed Title: Here…begyneth an holy preyer to oure moste blesset Lady Seynt Mari of
here V Ioyes. Lydgate (f. 199)
7.Source: Cambridge UK, Jesus College Q.G.8 (56), ff. 71
v-72
v
First Lines:[O] quene of heuen of hell eeke emperes
Lady of þis worlde o
verrey loode sterre…
Last Lines:…To make you strong be ware forget þam
On Cristes passion
and on hir Ioyes fyue
Attributed Title: Incipit de sancta maria (f. 71v)
8.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College R.3.21 (601), ff. 167
v-168
First Lines:quene of heuyn of hell eke Emperesse
lady of thys world o verrey
loode sterre
To marynerys geyn all martall distresse
In theyre passage
that they ne erre…
Last Lines:…On Crystes passion & on her ioyes fyue
To make yow strong
beware foryete hem nought
Attributed Author: Lydgate (added next to ‘lenuoy’, f. 168; added next to
‘Explicit’, f. 168v)
9.Source: London, British Library Harley 2255, ff. 111
v-113
v
First Lines:Queen of heuene of helle Eek emperesse
lady of this world O verray
lood sterre…
Last Lines:…On cristis passioun and on hir Ioyes fyve
To make you strong
be war forget hem nouht
Attributed Author: Explicit quod lidgate (f. 113v)
Attributed Title: Incipit de Sancta Maria (f. 111v, in rubric)
10.Source: London, Lambeth Palace Library 344, ff. 11-12
v
First Lines:Qvene of heuene and of helle emperesse
Lady of thys world verrey
lood sterre…
Last Lines:…To make you strange be ware forget her nowght
In crystes
passyon and on hyre Ioyes fyve