In 1491, at the command of two royal ladies – Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, and Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry’s mother – William Caxton published a small collection of prayers in Latin and English (STC 20195). The volume is now known as ‘The Fifteen Oes’ from its opening set of prayers.
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
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
Purchase this volume Edited from British Library MS Harley 2278 and Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 46 Anthony Bale, A.S.G. Edwards (eds.) John Lydgate wrote the ‘Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund’ at the request of his abbot, William Curteys, to commemorate the stay of the young King Henry VI at the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds from Christmas Eve 1433 to… Read More »Vol. 41 John Lydgate´s ‘Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund’ and the ‘Extra Miracles of St Edmund’
Purchase this volume Edited from an Uncatalogued Manuscript in a Private Collection, Ashton-under Lyne, with a Parallel Text of The Anglo Norman ‘L’Art de Venerie’ by William Twiti. Edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448. David Scott-MacNab (ed.) This volume presents the first scholarly edition of a little-known fifteenth-century translation of William Twiti’s Anglo-Norman prose treatise on hunting,… Read More »Vol. 40 The Middle English Text of ‘The Art of Hunting’ by William Twiti
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
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’
Purchase this volume An Edition Based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D. VII. Ronald Waldron (ed.) This volume is the first step in the publication of a new edition of John Trevisa’s English translation of Higden’s universal history, Polychronicon, to replace the Rolls Series edition of 1865-86. It is based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D.vii, a copy… Read More »Vol. 35 John Trevisa’s Translation of the ‘Polychronicon’ of Ranulph Higden, Book VI
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
Purchase this volume Edited by Una O’Farrel-Tate The ‘Abridged English Metrical Brut’ is a verse history of the king of Britain which exists in seven manuscripts and fragments. One version was edited in 1935 as ‘An Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle’, but the closest literary relations of this text are found in the ‘Brut’ tradition. The Royal manuscript contains a… Read More »Vol. 32 The Abridged English Metrical Brut