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December 1977

Vol. 7 The Middle English Translation of Christine de Pisan’s Livre du corps de policie

Edited by Diane Bornstein (1977). Edition From MS C.U.L. Kk. 1.5 Christine de Pisan’s Livre du corps de policie, written between 1401 and 1407 as a guide for the education of princes, displays an interesting blend of humanism and chivalric idealism.  The mid-fifteenth-century translation into Middle English survives in a unique manuscript, and in two copies of John Skot’s printed… Read More »Vol. 7 The Middle English Translation of Christine de Pisan’s Livre du corps de policie

Vol. 6 The Middle English Prose Translation of Roger d’Argenteuil’s Bible en François

Edited by Phyllis Moe (1977). Edition from MS Cleveland Public Library. MS W q091.92-c468 This anonymous Middle English work, which is found only in Cleveland Public Library, MS W q091.92–C468, ff. 77r–99v (formerly in Lord Aldenham’s library) throws light on the art of translation in the fifteenth century. Its original is an unedited French theological work that contains not only… Read More »Vol. 6 The Middle English Prose Translation of Roger d’Argenteuil’s Bible en François