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Vol. 69 The Middle English ‘Medicines for Horses’ Edited from the Manuscript formerly at Kensington Palace, HRH Duke of Gloucester MS s.n. (olim York House MS 45)

Purchase this volume here ‘Medicines for Horses’ is a Middle English treatise on the properties, training, and diseases of horses. The text provides valuable insight into the treatment of horses in medieval and early modern England, but has received little attention from modern scholars. It is extant in twelve manuscripts, most of which were produced in the mid to late… Read More »Vol. 69 The Middle English ‘Medicines for Horses’ Edited from the Manuscript formerly at Kensington Palace, HRH Duke of Gloucester MS s.n. (olim York House MS 45)

Vol. 68- The Epitaffe of the moste noble & valyaunt Iasper late duke of Beddeforde

Purchase this volume here The Epitaffe of the moste noble & valyaunt Iasper late duke of Beddeforde is a late fifteenth- century verse elegy for Jasper Tudor, uncle of Henry VII, who died in December 1495. It survives in a single, undated, printed copy in the Pepys Library in Magdalene College, Cambridge, very probably produced in London by Richard Pynson… Read More »Vol. 68- The Epitaffe of the moste noble & valyaunt Iasper late duke of Beddeforde

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Vol. 67- To Instruct and to Entertain – Medieval Didactic Dialogues

Purchase this volume here This volume brings together related examples of medieval didactic dialogues. Texts of this kind were designed both to instruct their readers or audience in doctrine, wisdom, morality, and Christian truth, and at the same time to entertain them through witty verbal exchanges, enigmas, and riddles. The texts that have been assembled here grew out of a common… Read More »Vol. 67- To Instruct and to Entertain – Medieval Didactic Dialogues

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Vol. 66 – The Syon Pardon Treatise

‘The Syon Pardon Treatise’ in London, BL, MS Harley 2321 is a Birgittine text from the second half of the fifteenth century. It has not previously been published and is unique except for eighteen lines found in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 156. The Harley text covers ninety-one pages and has the form of a sermon aimed at a lay… Read More »Vol. 66 – The Syon Pardon Treatise

Vol. 65 – An Epistle of Noble Poetrye:’ A Middle English Translation of Christine de Pizan’s ‘Epistre d’Othéa

‘An Epistle of Noble Poetrye’ is a late-fifteenth-century English translation of Christine de Pizan’s ‘L’Epistre d’Othéa’ (ca. 1400). The ‘Epistle’ survives in London, British Library, MS Harley 838, a family volume that passed from Anthony Babyngton (who probably acted as copyist) to his great-grandson and namesake who plotted the assassination of Elizabeth I.

Vol. 64 – A Late-Medieval History of the Ancient and Biblical World, Volume 2: Introduction, Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography

The late fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 contains a universal history of the world, which begins with the creation and covers large swathes of biblical and ancient history up to the time of Hannibal. Compiled from diverse printed and manuscript sources by a single compiler-scribe, the text forms an intricate network of sources which provides extensive… Read More »Vol. 64 – A Late-Medieval History of the Ancient and Biblical World, Volume 2: Introduction, Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography

Vol. 63 – A Late-Medieval History of the Ancient and Biblical World, Volume 1: The Text

The late-fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 contains a universal history of the world, which begins with the creation and covers large swathes of biblical and ancient history up to the time of Hannibal. Compiled from diverse printed and manuscript sources by a single compiler-scribe, the text forms an intricate network of sources which provides extensive material… Read More »Vol. 63 – A Late-Medieval History of the Ancient and Biblical World, Volume 1: The Text

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Vol. 62 The Middle English Mirror: Sermons from Quinquagesima to Pentecost

The Middle English Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of cultural and linguistic value. As a cycle of sermons addressed to a lay audience, it offers extensive material for the study of popular preaching in fourteenth-century England. Four of the six surviving manuscripts exemplify that variety of fourteenth-century London… Read More »Vol. 62 The Middle English Mirror: Sermons from Quinquagesima to Pentecost

The Fifteen Oes

Vol. 61 The Fifteen Oes and Other Prayers

In 1491, at the command of two royal ladies – Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, and Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry’s mother – William Caxton published a small collection of prayers in Latin and English (STC 20195). The volume is now known as ‘The Fifteen Oes’ from its opening set of prayers.

A Christian Mannes Believes

Vol. 60 A Christian Mannes Bileeve

A Christian Mannes Bileeve (CMB) is a vernacular prose commentary on the Apostles’ Creed from possibly the first half of the fourteenth century and survives in four manuscripts. It has received little attention and has not previously been published.

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