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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

Vol. 37 Three Sermons for ‘Nova Festa’, together with the ‘Hamus Caritatis’

Purchase this volume Edited from Caxton´s 1491 Edition of John Mirk´s ‘Festial’.  Susan Powell (ed.)  The ‘Festial’ is a collection of sermons de tempore and de sanctis compiled by the Austin canon, John Mirk, probably around the late 1380s. It circulated widely in manuscript, undergoing one recension and one significant revision, of which the Advent and Nativity sermons were edited… Read More »Vol. 37 Three Sermons for ‘Nova Festa’, together with the ‘Hamus Caritatis’

Vol. 36 The ‘Exhortacion’ from ‘Disce Mori’

Purchase this volume Edited from Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39. Edited by E.A. Jones E.A. Jones (ed.)  The fifteenth-century English compilation Disce Mori begins as an almost archetypal manual of religious instruction in the tradition of the Somme Le roi/Miroir du monde. However, in its concluding part, or ‘Exhortacion’, it turns to the more specific concerns of its female dedicatee… Read More »Vol. 36 The ‘Exhortacion’ from ‘Disce Mori’

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

Vol. 33 Four Middle English Sermons

Purchase this volume The four Middle English sermons from British Library, MS Harley 2268, for the occasions of the Annunciation/Passion Sunday, the Feast of St Mary Magdalene, a Procession, and a Dedication of an Altar to St Anne are edited here for the first time. Veronica O’Mara (ed.) They form an integrated group, sharing a consistency in content, a similarity… Read More »Vol. 33 Four Middle English Sermons

Vol. 29 Of Shrifte and Penance: The Middle English Prose Translation of Le Manuel des Péchés

Purchase this volume Klaus Bitterling (ed.) Edited from the Unique Manuscript, Cambridge, ST. John’s College MS G. 30 (1998) The importance of the original text in the history of devotional literature need not be stressed. The present edition includes information on the Manuel, its background, content and influence, and a study of the language of the Middle English manuscript and the… Read More »Vol. 29 Of Shrifte and Penance: The Middle English Prose Translation of Le Manuel des Péchés

Vol. 28 The Two Middle English Translations of the Revelations of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Purchase this volume Sarah McNamer (ed.) Edition from Cambridge University library MS Hh.i.11 and Wynkyn de Worde’s Printed Text of 1493 (1995) The Revelations of Elizabeth of Hungary circulated during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan versions, as well as two independent Middle English translations edited here. The text is in many ways a distinctively… Read More »Vol. 28 The Two Middle English Translations of the Revelations of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Vol. 23 The Myracles of Oure Lady

Purchase this volume Edited by Peter Whiteford (1990). From Wynkyn De Worde’s Edition. Peter Whiteford (ed.) (1990) The Myracles of Oure Lady is a collection of miracle stories printed by Wynkyn de Worde around 1496, and subsequently reprinted by him at least twice. It consists of forty-eight prose tales, which, though generally brief, are representative of this genre of popular… Read More »Vol. 23 The Myracles of Oure Lady

Vol. 19 The Middle English Prose Complaint of Our Lady and Gospel of Nicodemus

Purchase this volume Edition From Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2498 C William Marx, Jeanne F Drennan, (eds.) (1987)  The volume presents a critical edition of the Pepys text of the two linked narratives, with variants from University of Leeds, Brotherton Collection MS 501 and a parallel text of their Anglo-Norman source as preserved in BL MS Royal 20.B.V. The… Read More »Vol. 19 The Middle English Prose Complaint of Our Lady and Gospel of Nicodemus

Vol. 13 The Advent and Nativity Sermons from a Fifteenth-Century Revision of John Mirk’s ‘Festial’

Purchase this volume Edition from MS Harley 2247, and MS Royal 18 B XXV Susan Powell (ed.) (1981) MSS Harley and Royal represent a late fifteenth-century homily collection consisting of a revised version of Mark’s Festial augmented with temporale sermons from other sources. The edition presents the first seven temporale sermons of the collection. Three of these are revised Festial… Read More »Vol. 13 The Advent and Nativity Sermons from a Fifteenth-Century Revision of John Mirk’s ‘Festial’

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