Edited by Rodney Mearns (1985). Edition from BL MS Cotton Caligula A II The Vision of Tundale is a translation in a popular verse form of a Latin prose text. The English poem, which numbers 2320 lines, survives in whole or in part in five mid- or late-fifteenth-century manuscripts, and was composed in octosyllabic couplets. The Latin work, which originates… Read More »Vol. 18 The Vision of Tundale
Edited by Sarah M. Horrall (1985) Edition From MS St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, E.I.I The Middle English prose Lyf of Oure Lady and its Latin source the Vita Sancte Marie of the English Franciscan Thomas of Hales have not previously been edited, nor has the connection been made between the Middle English and the Latin texts. The Middle English… Read More »Vol. 17 The Lyf of Oure Lady: the Middle English Translation of Thomas of Hales’ Vita Sancte Marie