Purchase this volume Part II: Tracts Edited from Oxford Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS B 520 Claire Fennell (Ed.) MET 57 is volume II of a two-volume edition of the early fourteenth-century Middle English Statute–Book which survives in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS B 520, the only known Middle English version of an early statute-book. Volume I (MET 44) edits the… Read More »Vol. 57 A Middle English Statute-Book, Part II
Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 Mayumi Taguchi (Ed.), Yoko Iyeiri (Ed.) The Middle English prose ‘Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ’ (PMPC) survives uniquely in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 and has not previously been published. It is one of several Middle English translations of the Passion sequence of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Latin… Read More »Vol. 56 Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ
Purchase this volume Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264. Omar Khalaf (ed.) ‘Alexander and Dindimus’ is an anonymous alliterative poem which tells the fictitious epistolary exchange between Alexander the Great and Dindimus, king of the Bragmans. It is acknowledged to be one of the earliest poems belonging to the Alliterative Revival. Derived from the ‘Historia de Preliis Alexandri… Read More »Vol. 55 Alexander and Dindimus
Purchase this volume Edition from London, Lambeth Palace, MS 192. Valerie Edden (ed.) ‘Þe Instytucyonys and Specyal Dedys of Relygyows Carmelitys’ is Thomas Scrope’s Middle English translation of Felip Ribot’s ‘De institucione et peculiaribus gestis religiosorum carmelitarum decem libri in lege veteri exortorum et in nova perseverancium’ (commonly known as ‘The Book of the First Monks’). Ribot’s work shaped Carmelite… Read More »Vol. 54 Þe Instytucyonys and Specyal Dedys of Relygyows Carmelitys
Purchase this volume Edition from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The ‘Ovide moralisé en prose II’. Edition from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 137 Wolfgang Mager (ed.) William Caxton completed his English translation of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ in 1480 in Westminster. It is, however, not based on the Latin original, but on a… Read More »Vol. 53 The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Books II–III
Purchase this volume Edition from London, British Library, MS Additional 10304 Janet Cowen (ed.) London, British Library, MS Additional 10304 contains the unique copy of one of the only two known English translations of Boccaccio’s ‘De Mulieribus Claris’ prior to modern times (the other being that by Henry Parker, Lord Morley (EETS OS 214 (l943)). The present text consists of… Read More »Vol. 52 On Famous Women: The Middle English Translation of Boccaccio’s ‘De Mulieribus Claris’
Purchase this volume Edition from London, British Library MS Egerton 1995. Joanna Bellis (ed.) John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’ is an eyewitness narrative account of Henry V’s siege of Normandy’s capital in 1418–19. The text is unique in English verse of the fifteenth century in providing a first-hand narrative of a significant event in contemporary warfare. The poet was… Read More »Vol. 51 John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’
Purchase this volume Edition from Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 185. Francisco Alonso Almeida (ed.) Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter 185 is an early fifteenth-century medical book, which contains more than two hundred recipes, as well as texts on prognostication and charms. Part one consists of four items, the first three in Latin and the fourth in Middle English: a… Read More »Vol. 50 A Middle English Medical Remedy Book
Purchase this volume Edition from Wynkyn de Worde’s Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, SP. 335.2, Niamh Pattwell (ed.) ‘Exornatorium Curatorum’ is a Middle English manual of religious instruction which was first printed by Wynkyn de Worde in c. 1516. At first glance, the manual appears to be another version of Pecham’s 1281 Lambeth statute, ‘Ignorancia Sacerdotum’. However, ‘Exornatorium Curatorum’… Read More »Vol. 49 Exornatorium Curatorum
Purchase this volume Edited from London, British Library, MS Egerton 2658 William Marx (ed.) Apart from Nicholas Love’s ‘Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ’, the pseudo-Bonaventuran ‘Meditationes Vitae Christi’ was the basis for a number of other Middle English texts in verse and prose. The ‘Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus’, which survives in three manuscripts and a… Read More »Vol. 48 The Middle English ‘Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus’