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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.

A Christian Mannes Believes

Vol. 60 A Christian Mannes Bileeve

A Christian Mannes Bileeve (CMB) is a vernacular prose commentary on the Apostles’ Creed from possibly the first half of the fourteenth century and survives in four manuscripts. It has received little attention and has not previously been published.

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’

Cover of the most recent volume of The Middle English Texts Series, volume 58, The Middle English Kynge Appolyn of Thyre

Vol. 58 The Middle English Kynge Appolyn of Thyre

Purchase this volume Stephen Morrison (ed.), Jean-Jacques Vincensini (ed.) Translated by Robert Copland. Edited from the Text published by Wynkyn de Worde (1510). With a Parallel Text of The Medieval French ‘La cronicque et hystoire de Appollin, roy de Thir’ The Latin ‘Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri’, the original of which may have been written in Greek, is the ultimate source… Read More »Vol. 58 The Middle English Kynge Appolyn of Thyre

Vol. 56 Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ

Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 Mayumi Taguchi (Ed.), Yoko Iyeiri (Ed.) The Middle English prose ‘Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ’ (PMPC) survives uniquely in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 and has not previously been published. It is one of several Middle English translations of the Passion sequence of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Latin… Read More »Vol. 56 Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ

Vol. 55 Alexander and Dindimus

Purchase this volume Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264. Omar Khalaf (ed.)  ‘Alexander and Dindimus’ is an anonymous alliterative poem which tells the fictitious epistolary exchange between Alexander the Great and Dindimus, king of the Bragmans. It is acknowledged to be one of the earliest poems belonging to the Alliterative Revival. Derived from the ‘Historia de Preliis Alexandri… Read More »Vol. 55 Alexander and Dindimus

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. 53 The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Books II–III

Purchase this volume Edition from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The ‘Ovide moralisé en prose II’. Edition from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 137 Wolfgang Mager (ed.) William Caxton completed his English translation of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ in 1480 in Westminster. It is, however, not based on the Latin original, but on a… Read More »Vol. 53 The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Books II–III

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