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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. 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