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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. 49 Exornatorium Curatorum

Purchase this volume Edition from Wynkyn de Worde’s Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, SP. 335.2, Niamh Pattwell (ed.) ‘Exornatorium Curatorum’ is a Middle English manual of religious instruction which was first printed by Wynkyn de Worde in c. 1516. At first glance, the manual appears to be another version of Pecham’s 1281 Lambeth statute, ‘Ignorancia Sacerdotum’. However, ‘Exornatorium Curatorum’… Read More »Vol. 49 Exornatorium Curatorum

Vol. 48 The Middle English ‘Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus’

Purchase this volume Edited from London, British Library, MS Egerton 2658 William Marx (ed.) Apart from Nicholas Love’s ‘Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ’, the pseudo-Bonaventuran ‘Meditationes Vitae Christi’ was the basis for a number of other Middle English texts in verse and prose. The ‘Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus’, which survives in three manuscripts and a… Read More »Vol. 48 The Middle English ‘Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus’

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. 45/46 The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter

Purchase Vol. 45 Purchase Vol. 46 Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2498  Robert Ray Black, Raymond St-Jacques, (eds.)  The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter is a fourteenth-century anonymous interlinear Latin-to-Middle English glossed prose translation of the Book of Psalms, eleven canticles, and the Athanasian Creed. One by one, each verse is written in Latin with an accompanying Middle… Read More »Vol. 45/46 The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter

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

Vol. 43 The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Book I

Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The ‚Ovide moralisé en prose II’. Edited from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 137  Diana Rumrich (ed.)  ‘Caxton’s Ovid’ is a Middle English translation by William Caxton, which he completed in 1480, of a Middle French version of the ‘Ovide moralisé en… Read More »Vol. 43 The Middle English Text of ‘Caxton’s Ovid’, Book I

Vol. 42 The Historye of the Patriarks

Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, St John’s College MS G.31. With Parallel Texts of “The Historia Scholastica” and the “Bible Historiale”  Mayumi Taguchi (ed.)  Cambridge, St John’s College MS G.31 contains the only witness to the Middle English ‘Historye of the Patriarks’ which can be dated with some confidence to the fifteenth century. This text translates the Genesis section… Read More »Vol. 42 The Historye of the Patriarks

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