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Vol. 54 Þe Instytucyonys and Specyal Dedys of Relygyows Carmelitys

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

Vol. 52 On Famous Women: The Middle English Translation of Boccaccio’s ‘De Mulieribus Claris’

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’

Vol. 51 John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’

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’

Vol. 50 A Middle English Medical Remedy Book

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

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

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