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Cursor Mundi , a long religious epic in Middle English relating the history of the world as recorded in the Old and New Testaments. This anonymous poem (written c.1300) is a useful record of the northern English dialect of the period.

Bibliography: See edition by the Early English Text Society (7 pt., 1874-93; Pt. 3 repr. 1966).

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Cursor Mundi. An early English poem on the history of the world, probably dating from the early 14th cent. The first six books extend from the Creation to the life of Christ and the Apostles, and the seventh deals with the Last Judgement.
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Cursor Mundi, a northern poem dating from about 1300 surviving in seven manuscripts of about 24,000 short lines, supplemented in most of them by another 6,000 or so lines of devotional material. It is founded on the works of late 12th-cent. Latin writers and covers mankind's spiritual history from the Creation to the Last Judgement.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Cursor Mundi." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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