Publisher's Synopsis
1871. An alliterative poem written about A.D. 1350 and now first printed from the unique copy in the Vernon MS. at Oxford. With an appendix, containing The Life of Joseph of Armathy, reprinted from the black-letter copy of Wynkyn de Word; De Sancto Joseph AB Arimathia, first printed by Pynson A.D. 1516; and The Life of Joseph of Armathia, first printed by Pynson A.D. 1520. The alliterative tradition is one of the most significant in medieval English poetry. This poem contains the earlier portion of The History of the Holy Graal, which tells of Joseph of Arimathie and how he brought the holy vessel to England and of his adventures at the court of Evalak, King of Sarras, with the episode of King Evalak's shield. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
