Alexander and Dindimus: Or, The Letters of Alexander to Dindimus, King of the Brahmans, with the Replies of Dindimus; Being a Second Fragment of the Alliterative Romance of Alisander; Translated from the Latin, About A.D. 1340-50; Re-Edited from the Unique MS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Walter W. Skeat (Ed.)

Published by Early English Text Society, 1930

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1930 reprint of 1878 first edition, Early English Text Society / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (London), 5 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches tall blue buckram cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to spine, grey endpapers, only top page edges trimmed, some unopened signatures (easily remedied with a paper knife or edge of a playing card), xxvi, 91 pp. plus publisher's ads. Slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~JJ~ [1.5P] Alexander and Dindimus is an anonymous alliterative poem which tells the fictitious epistolary exchange between Alexander the Great and Dindimus, king of the Bragmans. It is acknowledged to be one of the earliest poems belonging to the Alliterative Revival. Derived from the Historia de Preliis Alexandri Magni, its sole witness is extant in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, a lavishly illustrated miscellany containing French texts dealing with the Alexander legend. The manuscript is one of the clearest examples of multilingual codices that were produced and circulated in England in the late Middle Ages. It is probable that the compiler conceived Alexander and Dindimus as a moral and edifying complement to the French chivalric romances present in the first part of the manuscript. Seller Inventory # JJ-0642-14588

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Title: Alexander and Dindimus: Or, The Letters of ...

Publisher: Early English Text Society

Publication Date: 1930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good