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Uniform Title Dance of Death.

Title The Dance of death [microform] / edited from mss. Ellesmere 26/A.13 and B. M. Lansdowne 699, collated with the other extant mss. by Florence Warren ; with introduction, notes, etc. by Beatrice White.

Imprint

London : Published for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets	LEL 10339	---	Available

Description	xxxi, 118 p. : ill., facsim. ; 23 cm.
Series	Early English Text Society. Original series ; no. 181
	Library of English literature ; LEL 10339
Note	Lydgate's free translation of a French original, which, according to the opening and closing stanzas of his poem, was painted upon the wall at the church of SS. Innocents in Paris. First printed by Tottel at the end of his edition of Lydgate's Fall of princes in 1554.
	In this edition the texts of the two manuscripts giving different versions are printed on opposite pages.
	Appendices: I. French text of the Dance of death [from Brit. mus. Add. 38858] -- II. Mural paintings of the 'Danse macabre.' -- III. The word 'macabre.' -- IV. The degeneration of the 'Danse macabre.' -- V. English printed versions of the Dance of death.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English Literature ; LEL 10339)
Note	s 1976 ilu n
Added Author	Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
	Warren, Florence, -1917.
	White, Beatrice, 1902-1986