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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

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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