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Vol. 17 The Lyf of Oure Lady: the Middle English Translation of Thomas of Hales’ Vita Sancte Marie

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

Vol. 16 The South English Ministry and Passion

Edited by O.S. Pickering (1984). Edited from MS St. John’s College, Cambridge, B.6 The 3048-line Ministry and Passion, written in the late thirteenth century, is one of the temporale narratives associated with the South English Legendary collection, and the earliest Passion poem of the group.  Only a fragment from another manuscript has previously been printed. It is closely related to… Read More »Vol. 16 The South English Ministry and Passion

Vol. 15 The Book of Tribulation

Edited By Alexandra Barratt (1983). Edition from MS Bodley 423. This unpublished text of ca. 1400 is one of two extant independent Middle English translations of the popular thirteenth-century French prose text Li Livre de Tribulacion. From the Latin version (which may or may not predate the French) derives the better-known shortened Latin text, De XII Vtilitatibus Tribulacionis, printed as… Read More »Vol. 15 The Book of Tribulation

Vol. 14 A Myrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen

Edited by Venetia Nelson (1981). Edition from MS Harley 45. The Myrrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen, also known as the Mirror of Life, is the prose counterpart of the fourteenth-century poem Speculum Vite. It exists in four manuscripts of the fifteenth century, with no suggestion of authorship. Because of the character of its text as compared with the Speculum… Read More »Vol. 14 A Myrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen

Vol. 13 The Advent and Nativity Sermons from a Fifteenth-Century Revision of John Mirk’s ‘Festial’

Purchase this volume Edition from MS Harley 2247, and MS Royal 18 B XXV Susan Powell (ed.) (1981) MSS Harley and Royal represent a late fifteenth-century homily collection consisting of a revised version of Mark’s Festial augmented with temporale sermons from other sources. The edition presents the first seven temporale sermons of the collection. Three of these are revised Festial… Read More »Vol. 13 The Advent and Nativity Sermons from a Fifteenth-Century Revision of John Mirk’s ‘Festial’

Vol. 12 The King of Tars

Purchase this volume Edited by Judith Perryman (1980). Edition from the Auchinleck MS, Advocated 19.2.1 Judith Perryman (ed.) The King of Tars, a successful and entertaining example of a Middle English didactic romance, is preserved in three important manuscript miscellanies: Auchinleck, Vernon, and Simeon. The text of this new edition is based on the Auchinleck version, which probably comes closest… Read More »Vol. 12 The King of Tars

Vol. 11 Octavian Imperator

Purchase this volume Edited by Frances McSparran (1979) Edition From BL MS Cotton Caligula A II Frances McSparran (ed.) There are two versions of the romance of Octavian in Middle English: the Northern version is preserved in two manuscripts, and in fragmentary form in an early printed text; the Southern version occurs only in the Caligula manuscript, and was last… Read More »Vol. 11 Octavian Imperator

Vol. 10 The Middle English Translation of the Rosarium Theologie

Edited by Christina von Nolcken (1979). A Selection Edition from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 3564/581 The Rosarium Theologie belongs to that extensive class which can be described as theological dictionaries or alphabetical collections of common places. It is the most important version of a text which survives in several other forms, the longest and earliest being the Floretum,… Read More »Vol. 10 The Middle English Translation of the Rosarium Theologie

Vol. 9 Three Lives from the Gilte Legende

Purchase this volume Edited by Richard Hamer (1978), Edited from MS B.L. Egerton 876. Richard Hamer (ed.) The Gilte Legende of ca. 1438 is justly considered the most important prose translation of the Legenda Aurea into Middle English, and is often preferred to Caxton’s Golden Legend, on account of its fluent and natural style.  This edition was published in 1978… Read More »Vol. 9 Three Lives from the Gilte Legende

Vol. 8 Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Divine Love: The Shorter Version

Edited Frances Beer (1978). Edition From BL Add. MS 37790 The shorter version of the Revelations of Divine Love is one of the most important texts of the Middle English mystical tradition. It is preserved only in the Amherst manuscript and prior to this edition had not been printed in its Middle English form. In 1978 an edition of the… Read More »Vol. 8 Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Divine Love: The Shorter Version

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