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 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
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 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