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Vol. 47 The Middle English ‘Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy’

Purchase this volume A Parallel-Text Edition. Edited from London, British Library, MS Sloane 2453 with a Parallel Text from New York, Columbia University, MS Plimpton 260 Carrie Griffin (ed.)  The ‘Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy’, surviving in thirty-four manuscripts ranging in date from c. 1380 to c. 1600, was one of the most widely-copied, consistently read, and arguably influential… Read More »Vol. 47 The Middle English ‘Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy’

Vol. 45/46 The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter

Purchase Vol. 45 Purchase Vol. 46 Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2498  Robert Ray Black, Raymond St-Jacques, (eds.)  The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter is a fourteenth-century anonymous interlinear Latin-to-Middle English glossed prose translation of the Book of Psalms, eleven canticles, and the Athanasian Creed. One by one, each verse is written in Latin with an accompanying Middle… Read More »Vol. 45/46 The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter

Vol. 44 A Middle English Statute-Book

Purchase this volume Part I: ‘Statuta Antiqua’. Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS B 520. Claire Fennell (ed.)  Statute-books have been described as one of the most popular forms of secular literature in medieval England, and are the commonest form of medieval legal literature still extant. The statute-books all differ as to the choice and ordering of their contents,… Read More »Vol. 44 A Middle English Statute-Book

Vol. 43 The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Book I

Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The ‚Ovide moralisé en prose II’. Edited from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 137  Diana Rumrich (ed.)  ‘Caxton’s Ovid’ is a Middle English translation by William Caxton, which he completed in 1480, of a Middle French version of the ‘Ovide moralisé en… Read More »Vol. 43 The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Book I

Vol. 42 The Historye of the Patriarks

Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, St John’s College MS G.31. With Parallel Texts of “The Historia Scholastica” and the “Bible Historiale”  Mayumi Taguchi (ed.)  Cambridge, St John’s College MS G.31 contains the only witness to the Middle English ‘Historye of the Patriarks’ which can be dated with some confidence to the fifteenth century. This text translates the Genesis section… Read More »Vol. 42 The Historye of the Patriarks

Vol. 41 John Lydgate´s ‘Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund’ and the ‘Extra Miracles of St Edmund’

Purchase this volume Edited from British Library MS Harley 2278 and Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 46 Anthony Bale, A.S.G. Edwards (eds.)  John Lydgate wrote the ‘Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund’ at the request of his abbot, William Curteys, to commemorate the stay of the young King Henry VI at the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds from Christmas Eve 1433 to… Read More »Vol. 41 John Lydgate´s ‘Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund’ and the ‘Extra Miracles of St Edmund’

Vol. 40 The Middle English Text of ‘The Art of Hunting’ by William Twiti

Purchase this volume Edited from an Uncatalogued Manuscript in a Private Collection, Ashton-under Lyne, with a Parallel Text of The Anglo Norman ‘L’Art de Venerie’ by William Twiti. Edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448.  David Scott-MacNab (ed.)  This volume presents the first scholarly edition of a little-known fifteenth-century translation of William Twiti’s Anglo-Norman prose treatise on hunting,… Read More »Vol. 40 The Middle English Text of ‘The Art of Hunting’ by William Twiti

Vol. 39 The Middle English Version of William of Saliceto´s ‘Anatomia

Purchase this volume A Critical Edition. Based on Cambridge, Trinity College MS R. 14.41 with a Parallel Text of The Medieval Latin ‘Anatomia’. Edited from Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek MS 1177.  Christia Heimerl (ed.)  This edition sets out in parallel texts the Latin original and the Middle English translation of the medieval medical text, the ‘Anatomia’, which in its original form is… Read More »Vol. 39 The Middle English Version of William of Saliceto´s ‘Anatomia

Vol. 38 Chaucer’s ‘Boece’

Purchase this volume A Critical Edition Based on Cambridge University Library MS Ii.3.21, ff. 9r-180v.  Tim William Machan (ed.) Although Chaucer’s ‘Boece’ has been edited many times, this is the first edition to offer not only a critical text but also collations with all extant medieval and late-medieval authorities and also with the modern critical editorial tradition. It thus presents… Read More »Vol. 38 Chaucer’s ‘Boece’

Vol. 37 Three Sermons for ‘Nova Festa’, together with the ‘Hamus Caritatis’

Purchase this volume Edited from Caxton´s 1491 Edition of John Mirk´s ‘Festial’.  Susan Powell (ed.)  The ‘Festial’ is a collection of sermons de tempore and de sanctis compiled by the Austin canon, John Mirk, probably around the late 1380s. It circulated widely in manuscript, undergoing one recension and one significant revision, of which the Advent and Nativity sermons were edited… Read More »Vol. 37 Three Sermons for ‘Nova Festa’, together with the ‘Hamus Caritatis’

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