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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 material for the study of history writing and compilation in fifteenth-century England. Only very brief excerpts from this text have previously appeared in print.

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 for the study of history writing and compilation in fifteenth-century England. Only very brief excerpts from this text have previously appeared in print.

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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 language designated ‘Type II’ by M. L. Samuels.

Vol. 59 A Middle English Version of the ‘Circa Instans’

Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13 Edurne Garrido-Anes (Ed.) Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13 contains a Middle English version of the ‘Liber de Simplici Medicina’ (‘Circa Instans’), a treatise on ‘materia medica’ attributed to the twelfth-century physician Matthaeus Platearius. The relevance and popularity of this Latin work composed at the renowned medical School of Salerno extended over time… Read More »Vol. 59 A Middle English Version of the ‘Circa Instans’

Vol. 34 The Middle English ‘Mirror’: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima

Purchase this volume Edited from Glasgow University Library, Hunter 250. Edited by Thomas G. Duncan and Margaret Connolly with a parallel Text of The Anglo-Norman Miroir edited from Nottingham University Library, MS LM 4 Thomas G. Duncan, Margaret Connolly (eds.) The ME Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of… Read More »Vol. 34 The Middle English ‘Mirror’: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima

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