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English Fragments
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NOTE.
The two coloured facsimiles of this little pamphlet explain themselves.
The Manual, which was the medieval priest’s handbook for the services of
Baptism, Marriage, Visitation of the Sick, Burial, etc., is virtually the
only one of the medieval Latin service-books which contained invariably a
certain proportion of its text in English. The text of the English varies
in a measure in different MSS.
Extra Series, XC.
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY.
_From the British Museum Manual, MS. 30,506_ (XV cent.).
FROM THE SERVICE FOR BAPTISM.
* * * * *
[1]N. I cristene þe in þe name of þe fader, and of þe sone, and
of þe holy gost.
* * * * *
[2]Godfaderis and godmoderis, I charge ȝow, and þe fader and þe
moder, that þis child be kept þis seuen ȝer fro wat{er}, fro
feer, fro hors [3]fot, fro hondes toth; and þat he ligge not
be þe fader an be þe moder vn-to tyme he co{n}ne sey “ligge
outter,” and þat he be confermyd of a byschop that next cometh
to contre be seuen myle behalue, and þat [he] be tauȝt his beleue,
þat is for to sey, Pat{er} n{oste}r, Aue maria, and Credo; And þat
ȝe wasche ȝo{ur} hondes er ȝe goon owt of chirche, in peyne of
fastyng xl fridayes.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] leaf 23.
[2] leaf 23, back.
[3] leaf 24.
FROM THE MARRIAGE SERVICE.
* * * * *
[1]I aske þe banes betwen I de B and A de C. ȝif any man or woman
kan sey or put any lettenge of sybrede, wherfor they may not, ne
owght not, to come togedere be lawe of holy chirche, do vs to wete.
* * * * *
[2]Lo, syres, we been her gadered togedere befor god and alle his
aungelis and his seyntis, in þe sith of holi cherche, to knette
togedere two bodies, that is to sey, þis man and þis woman, to þis
ende, þat fro{m} þis tyme forward þei moste be o flesch, and two
sowles in þe feith and in þe lawe of god, to deserue togedere euer
lastyng lyf in amendement of that þat þei haue do amys herbefore:
wherfor I amones ȝow alle, that, ȝif þer be any of ȝow þat knowe
any lawful lettyng whi þis man and þis woma{n} mai not be wedded
togedere lawfulli, þat now he sey and knowliche it.
* * * * *
Also I charge ȝow, bothe man and woman, þat ȝif ony of ȝow haue made
any contract p{r}iuyli [3]before þis tyme, or any avow mad, or ony
other cause knowe, whi þat ȝe mai not come to-gedere lawfulli, now
knowliche it.
* * * * *
N. Wiltow haue þis woman to þin wyf, and loue here, and worshipe
here, and holde hire, and kepe here in seknes and in hele, as an
hosbonde owyth to his wif, and alle oþer women to forsaken for hire,
and only to drawe to hire as longe as ȝowre bothe lyues to ged{er}e
lasten?
* * * * *
[4]N. Wiltow haue þis man to þin housbonde, to been buxum to hym,
and serue hym, and loue hym, and worschipe hym, and kepe hym in
syknes and in hele, as a wif owith to do here housbonde, and alle
oþer men forsaken for hym, and only to drawe to hym as longe as
ȝowre bothyn lyues to-gedere lasten?
* * * * *
I .N. take the N. to myn wedded wyf, to haue and to holde from þis
day forward, for beter, for wers, for richere, for porere, for
fayrere, for fowlere, in seknes and in helthe, til deth vs departe,
ȝif holy chirche it wil ordeyne: and therto I plithe þe myn trewthe.
* * * * *
I .N. take the N, to myn weddid housbonde, to haue and to holde from
þis day forward, for beter, for wers, for richer, for porere, for
fayrere, for fowlere, in seknes and in hele, to be boner and buxu{m},
[5]as a wyf owyd to hur husb[an]dd,[5] til deth vs departe, as holi
cherche it [5]wil[5] ordeyne: and therto i plith the myn trowthe.
* * * * *
[6]With þis ryng I þe wedde, and þis gold and siluer I þe ȝeue, and
with al myn bodi I the worschepe, and with al myn wordlich catel
I the honowre.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] leaf 25.
[2] leaf 25, back.
[3] leaf 26.
[4] leaf 26, back.
[5-5] In a later hand.
[6] leaf 27, back.
FROM THE OFFICE FOR THE VISITATION OF THE SICK.
_From the British Museum
Manual, MS. 32,320_ (xv cent.).
How men þat ben in hele sculde
visite sike men.
[1]Beleuyst þow in god, fader [a]My dere sone or douȝtere in god,
almythi, makere of heuene and hyt semith þat þou hyest þe
of erthe? faste in þe wey fro þis life to
* * * * * godward, þere þou schalt cee
I beleue. al þy forme-fadris, apostelis,
martiris, confessouris and
Beleuyst þow i{n} his sone, þe uirgynis, & all men and
secunde p{er}sone in trinite, [b]wo{m}men þat bene saued; and
crist ih{es}u, the whiche was fore gladnes of suche felauschip
conseyuyd be þe myght of þe holy be þou of good co{n}fort in god,
gost, and born of þe blessid þynke how þow muste after þis
mayden, owre ladi seynt marie? lyfe leye a stone in þe waỻ of
þe cite of heuene, sclely witħ
Credo. outen noise or strife, and
þ{er}fore, or þou wende out of þis
Beleuest thow that he leued here world, þou polisscħ þi stoon and
two and thritty ȝer and more, make it redi, ȝif þou wolt not
and suffred at þe last, deth on þere be lettid.
þe cros for þe loue of mankende?
¶ Þis stoon is þy soule, whiche
Credo. þou muste make stronge
þorougħ right bileue; and faire
Beleuyst þow that he wente to þ{o}u muste hit clense, þorougħ
helle & took owt adam and eue hope of goddis m{er}ci and
and the sowles þat were þerynne, p{er}fite charite, the whiche
the whych myȝth not come to coueritħ þe multitude of synnes.
blysse til cristes passiou{n}? þe noyse ..——
Credo.
Beleuyst thow þat he ros vp fro [c]How a man schulde conforte
deth on estir day, and dwellede annothere, þ{a}t he gruche nought
her til ascensiou{n} day, to preue when he is seke.
ve[2]rily his resurrecciou{n}?
Credo.
Beleuyst þow that thanne he Broþer or sisterʼ, louyst þou god þi
styed vp in-to heuene be his lorde? he or sche, ȝif þey may
myȝth, god and man, and there speke, woỻ sey ‘ȝhee,’ [d]or
is euyn in maieste w{i}t{h} his p{er}auenture, ȝif þey may not
fader? speke, þenke ‘ȝhee.’
Credo. ¶ þan þus, ȝif þou lovest god....
Beleuyst þow þat he schal come [e]Ȝiffe detħ goo faste on a man,
at the day of dome to deme þe Speke to hym thesse wordis.
gode and þe badde?
Broþer or Systere in god, ȝif þou
Credo. see or....
Beleuyst þow in þe holi gost, the [f]Now when þou hast seyde aỻ þis,
thridde p{er}sone in trinite, and or ȝif þow maist not seye aỻ for
in holy cherche, and þat þe hastynge of detħ, beginne her{e}
sacrementis of holy chirche or his mynde go from hy{m}. Broþer
aren ordeyned in remissiou{n} of or sister, art þou glad þ{a}t
ma{n}nys senne? þow schalt dye in cristyn feythe?
Credo.
Beleuyst þow in þe sacrament of R’. ȝhe.
þe auter, þat is cristes bodi
whiche was born of marie, knowlechist þou ...
wiche criste lefte her among vs [_Rest missing._]
as for þe most p{re}ciows iewel,
whan he schulde departe be
deth from his disciples?
Credo.
Beleuest þow þat alle tho þat been in good lif schul haue part of
alle [3]the[3] gode dedys, and preyeres that been doon in holy
chirche, and [þat] alle tho þat been knet to-gedere here in holy
chirche be grace, schul ben knet to-gedere in eu{er}lastyng ioye?
Credo.
Trustis thow in þe mercy of god, wiche wil not the deth of a synful
man ȝif he be sory of hys senne and schreuen, and in wyl to amende
hym?
Credo.
Trustis þow þat thow schal haue mercy ȝif þow be sori of þin senne?
Credo.
Trustis thow þat thow, and eu{er}y man and woman, schal rise vp at
þe day of dome in body and in sowle, the badde to be dampned in
endeles peyne, and þe gode to be take, bodi and sowle, in-to
euerelasty{n}g blisse?
[4]Credo.
Art þow in wil fulli to forȝeue alle maner of men and women that
þat þey haue trespased to the, so that þow art in wil to kepe no
rancowr ne malise to hym in þe herte, but to be in loue and charite
with eche man and woman?
* * * * *
I knowliche to god, and to owre lady seynt marie, and to alle þe
halwen of heuene, that I haue senned, with mowth spoken, with
feet goon, w{i}t{h} eyen seyen, with eren hered, with nose
smelled, with herte þowht, and with al myn senful body myswrowth;
therfore i preye owre ladi seynt marie and alle the halwyn of
heuene, prey for me; and the prest, þat thow beseche for me,
and me asoyle, for charite.
Ȝif the seke mai speke after that he is schriue, and hath mad his
gen{er}al confessiou{n}, asoyle the prest hym on þis wyse.
* * * * *
[5]Now, brodir or sister, ȝif þow beholde any cros, or ony ymage
mad with ma{n}nes hond, wite wel þat it is not god; therfore
thinke or seye in þin herte: I wot well that þow art not my{n}
god, but maked aft{er} hym, to make me haue more mynde on myn
god; therfore, lord fader þat art in heuene, m{er}ci i aske of
alle þe sennes that i haue trespased aȝens the wilful passiou{n}
of owre lord ih{es}u crist, the whiche he suffred for al mankende.
merciful fader, of thi goodnesse and thi grete mercy, do awey al
my{n} wikkednesse!
FOOTNOTES:
[1] leaf 50, back.
[2] leaf 51.
[3-3] In a later hand.
[4] leaf 51, back.
[5] leaf 52.
[a] leaf 13, back.
[b] leaf 14.
[c] leaf 15, back.
[d] leaf 16.
[e] leaf 18.
[f] leaf 19, back.
THE GENERAL SENTENCE.
This form of excommunication, read four times a year, has been printed
from an excellent text in the Early English Text Society’s volume
entitled _Instructions for Parish Priests_. The General Sentence is
commonly found in the printed or later Manuals, but appears to have had
no distinct place in any medieval service-book.
_Mr. Henry Littlehales, who, in 1898, gave the Chaucer Society his ~Notes
on the Road from London to Canterbury~, no. 30 of the Society’s Second
Series, and who also edited for the Early English Text Society “The
Prymer, or Lay Folk’s Prayer-Book,” from a Cambridge University MS. ab.
1420, nos. 105, 109 in the Original Series, has kindly given the Chaucer
Society 250 copies of each of the Facsimiles of two Illuminated pages in
Fifteenth-Century MS. Prymers in the British Museum._
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publications, because we cannot undertake to reproduce them when the
present copies run out. Every Member will decide for himself whether he
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apart in his picture-album._
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_F. J. Furnivall._
_1 August, 1903._
[Illustration: A page of a fifteenth century Prymer, (the common medieval
layfolks prayer book) From the Brit. Mus. MS. 2 A. XVIII.
Full size.]
[Illustration: A page of a fifteenth century Prymer, Brit. Mus. MS. Harl.
2915. This is the common picture before the Office for the Dead.
Full Size.]
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Hospital, London_, from the unique MS. ab. 1425, which gives an account
of the Founder, Rahere, and the miraculous cures wrought at the Hospital;
_The Craft of Nombrynge_, with other of the earliest englisht Treatises
on Arithmetic, edited by R. Steele, B.A.; and Miss Warren’s two-text
edition of _The Dance of Death_ from the Ellesmere and other MSS.
These Extra-Series Texts ought to be completed by their Editors: the
Second Part of the prose Romance of _Melusine_—Introduction, with ten
facsimiles of the best woodblocks of the old foreign black-letter
editions, Glossary, &c., by A. K. Donald, B.A. (now in India); and a
new edition of the famous Early-English Dictionary (English and Latin),
_Promptorium Parvulorum_, from the Winchester MS., ab. 1440 A.D.: in
this, the Editor, the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, M.A., will follow and print his
MS. not only in its arrangement of nouns first, and verbs second, under
every letter of the Alphabet, but also in its giving of the flexions of
the words. The Society’s edition will thus be the first modern one that
really represents its original, a point on which Mr. Mayhew’s insistence
will meet with the sympathy of all our Members.
[Sidenote: _Texts preparing: The Texts for 1906, 1907 &c._]
The Texts for the Extra Series in 1906 and 1907 will be chosen from _The
Three Kings’ Sons_, Part II, the Introduction &c. by Prof. Dr. Leon
Kellner; Part II of _The Chester Plays_, re-edited from the MSS., with a
full collation of the formerly missing Devonshire MS., by Mr. G. England
and Dr. Matthews; the Parallel-Text of the only two MSS. of the _Owl and
Nightingale_, edited by Mr. G. F. H. Sykes (at press); Prof. Jespersen’s
editions of John Hart’s _Orthographie_ (MS. 1551 A.D.; blackletter 1569),
and _Method to teach Reading_, 1570; Deguilleville’s _Pilgrimage of the
Sowle_, in English prose, edited by Prof. Dr. L. Kellner. (For the three
prose versions of _The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man_—two English, one
French—an Editor is wanted.) Members are askt to realise the fact that
the Society has now 50 years’ work on its Lists,—at its present rate of
production,—and that there is from 100 to 200 more years’ work to come
after that. The year 2000 will not see finisht all the Texts that the
Society ought to print. The need of more Members and money is pressing.
Offers of help from willing Editors have continually to be declined
because the Society has no funds to print their Texts.
An urgent appeal is hereby made to Members to increase the list of
Subscribers to the E. E. Text Society. It is nothing less than a scandal
that the Hellenic Society should have nearly 1000 members, while the
Early English Text Society has not 300!
[Sidenote: _Deguilleville._]
Before his death in 1895, Mr. G. N. Currie was preparing an edition of
the 15th and 16th century Prose Versions of Guillaume de Deguilleville’s
_Pilgrimage of the Life of Man_, with the French prose version by Jean
Gallopes, from Lord Aldenham’s MS., he having generously promist to pay
the extra cost of printing the French text, and engraving one or two
of the illuminations in his MS. But Mr. Currie, when on his deathbed,
charged a friend to burn _all_ his MSS. which lay in a corner of his
room, and unluckily all the E. E. T. S.’s copies of the Deguilleville
prose versions were with them, and were burnt with them, so that the
Society will be put to the cost of fresh copies, Mr. Currie having died
in debt.
Guillaume de Deguilleville, monk of the Cistercian abbey of Chaalis, in
the diocese of Senlis, wrote his first verse _Pèlerinaige de l’Homme_
in 1330-1 when he was 36.[1] Twenty-five (or six) years after, in 1355,
he revised his poem, and issued a second version of it,[2] a revision
of which was printed ab. 1500. Of the prose representative of the first
version, 1330-1, a prose Englishing, about 1430 A.D., was edited by Mr.
Aldis Wright for the Roxburghe Club in 1869, from MS. Ff. 5. 30 in the
Cambridge University Library. Other copies of this prose English are
in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Q. 2. 25; Sion College, London; and
the Laud Collection in the Bodleian, no. 740.[3] A copy in the Northern
dialect is MS. G. 21, in St. John’s Coll., Cambridge, and this is the
MS. which will be edited for the E. E. Text Society. The Laud MS. 740
was somewhat condenst and modernised, in the 17th century, into MS. Ff.
6. 30, in the Cambridge University Library:[4] “The Pilgrime or the
Pilgrimage of Man in this World,” copied by Will. Baspoole, whose copy
“was verbatim written by Walter Parker, 1645, and from thence transcribed
by G. G. 1649; and from thence by W. A. 1655.” This last copy may have
been read by, or its story reported to, Bunyan, and may have been the
groundwork of his _Pilgrim’s Progress_. It will be edited for the E.
E. T. Soc., its text running under the earlier English, as in Mr.
Herrtage’s edition of the _Gesta Romanorum_ for the Society. In February
1464,[5] Jean Gallopes—a clerk of Angers, afterwards chaplain to John,
Duke of Bedford, Regent of France—turned Deguilleville’s first verse
_Pèlerinaige_ into a prose _Pèlerinage de la vie humaine_.[6] By the
kindness of Lord Aldenham, as above mentiond, Gallopes’s French text will
be printed opposite the early prose northern Englishing in the Society’s
edition.
The Second Version of Deguilleville’s _Pèlerinaige de l’Homme_, A.D. 1355
or -6, was englisht in verse by Lydgate in 1426. Of Lydgate’s poem, the
larger part is in the Cotton MS. Vitellius C. xiii (leaves 2-308). This
MS. leaves out Chaucer’s englishing of Deguilleville’s _A B C_ or _Prayer
to the Virgin_, of which the successive stanzas start with A, B, C, and
run all thro’ the alphabet; and it has 2 main gaps, besides many small
ones from the tops of leaves being burnt in the Cotton fire. All these
gaps (save the A B C) have been fild up from the Stowe MS. 952 (which old
John Stowe completed) and from the end of the other imperfect MS. Cotton,
Tiberius A vii. Thanks to the diligence of the old Elizabethan tailor
and manuscript-lover, a complete text of Lydgate’s poem can be given,
though that of an inserted theological prose treatise is incomplete. The
British Museum French MSS. (Harleian 4399,[7] and Additional 22,937[8]
and 25,594[9]) are all of the First Version.
Besides his first _Pèlerinaige de l’homme_ in its two versions,
Deguilleville wrote a second, “de l’ame separee du corps,” and a third,
“de nostre seigneur Iesus.” Of the second, a prose Englishing of 1413,
_The Pilgrimage of the Sowle_ (with poems by Hoccleve, already printed
for the Society with that author’s _Regement of Princes_), exists in the
Egerton MS. 615,[10] at Hatfield, Cambridge (Univ. Kk. 1. 7, and Caius),
Oxford (Univ. Coll. and Corpus), and in Caxton’s edition of 1483. This
version has ‘somewhat of addicions’ as Caxton says, and some shortenings
too, as the maker of both, the first translater, tells us in the MSS.
Caxton leaves out the earlier englisher’s interesting Epilog in the
Egerton MS. This prose englishing of the _Sowle_ will be edited for the
Society by Prof. Dr. Leon Kellner after that of the _Man_ is finisht, and
will have Gallopes’s French opposite it, from Lord Aldenham’s MS., as his
gift to the Society. Of the Pilgrimage of Jesus, no englishing is known.
[Sidenote: _Anglo-Saxon Psalters._]
As to the MS. Anglo-Saxon Psalters, Dr. Hy. Sweet has edited the oldest
MS., the Vespasian, in his _Oldest English Texts_ for the Society, and
Mr. Harsley has edited the latest, c. 1150, Eadwine’s Canterbury Psalter.
The other MSS., except the Paris one, being interlinear versions,—some
of the Roman-Latin redaction, and some of the Gallican,—Prof. Logeman
has prepared for press, a Parallel-Text edition of the first twelve
Psalms, to start the complete work. He will do his best to get the Paris
Psalter—tho’ it is not an interlinear one—into this collective edition;
but the additional matter, especially in the Verse-Psalms, is very
difficult to manage. If the Paris text cannot be parallelised, it will
form a separate volume. The Early English Psalters are all independent
versions, and will follow separately in due course.
[Sidenote: _More Money wanted._]
Through the good offices of the Examiners, some of the books for the
Early-English Examinations of the University of London will be chosen
from the Society’s publications, the Committee having undertaken to
supply such books to students at a large reduction in price. The net
profits from these sales will be applied to the Society’s Reprints.
Members are reminded that _fresh Subscribers are always wanted_, and
that the Committee can at any time, on short notice, send to press an
additional Thousand Pounds’ worth of work.
[Sidenote: _Saints’ Lives._]
The Subscribers to the Original Series must be prepared for the issue
of the whole of the Early English _Lives of Saints_, sooner or later.
The Society cannot leave out any of them, even though some are dull. The
Sinners would doubtless be much more interesting. But in many Saints’
Lives will be found valuable incidental details of our forefathers’
social state, and all are worthful for the history of our language. The
Lives may be lookt on as the religious romances or story-books of their
period.
The Standard Collection of Saints’ Lives in the Corpus and Ashmole MSS.,
the Harleian MS. 2277, &c. will repeat the Laud set, our No. 87, with
additions, and in right order. (The foundation MS. (Laud 108) had to be
printed first, to prevent quite unwieldy collations.) The Supplementary
Lives from the Vernon and other MSS. will form one or two separate
volumes.
Besides the Saints’ Lives, Trevisa’s englishing of _Bartholomæus de
Proprietatibus Rerum_, the mediæval Cyclopædia of Science, &c., will
be the Society’s next big undertaking. Dr. R. von Fleischhacker will
edit it. Prof. Napier of Oxford, wishing to have the whole of our MS.
Anglo-Saxon in type, and accessible to students, will edit for the
Society all the unprinted and other Anglo-Saxon Homilies which are not
included in Thorpe’s edition of Ælfric’s prose,[11] Dr. Morris’s of the
Blickling Homilies, and Prof. Skeat’s of Ælfric’s Metrical Homilies.
The late Prof. Kölbing left complete his text, for the Society, of the
_Ancren Riwle_, from the best MS., with collations of the other four, and
this will be edited for the Society by Dr. Thümmler. Mr. Harvey means to
prepare an edition of the three MSS. of the _Earliest English Metrical
Psalter_, one of which was edited by the late Mr. Stevenson for the
Surtees Society.
Members of the Society will learn with pleasure that its example has been
followed, not only by the Old French Text Society which has done such
admirable work under its founders Profs. Paul Meyer and Gaston Paris, but
also by the Early Russian Text Society, which was set on foot in 1877,
and has since issued many excellent editions of old MS. Chronicles, &c.
Members will also note with pleasure the annexation of large tracts of
our Early English territory by the important German contingent, the
late Professors Zupitza and Kölbing, the living Hausknecht, Einenkel,
Haenisch, Kaluza, Hupe, Adam, Holthausen, Schick, Herzfeld, Brandeis,
Sieper, Konrath, Wülfing, &c. Scandinavia has also sent us Prof. Erdmann
and Dr. E. A. Kock; Holland, Prof. H. Logeman, who is now working in
Belgium; France, Prof. Paul Meyer—with Gaston Paris as adviser (alas,
now dead);—Italy, Prof. Lattanzi; Austria, Dr. von Fleischhacker; while
America is represented by the late Prof. Child, by Dr. Mary Noyes
Colvin, Miss Rickert, Profs. Mead, McKnight, Triggs, Perrin, &c. The
sympathy, the ready help, which the Society’s work has cald forth from
the Continent and the United States, have been among the pleasantest
experiences of the Society’s life, a real aid and cheer amid all troubles
and discouragements. All our Members are grateful for it, and recognise
that the bond their work has woven between them and the lovers of
language and antiquity across the seas is one of the most welcome results
of the Society’s efforts.
=ORIGINAL SERIES.=
1. =Early English Alliterative Poems=, ab. 1360 A.D., ed. Rev.
Dr. R. Morris. 16_s._ 1864
2. =Arthur=, ab. 1440, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 4_s._ „
3. =Lauder on the Dewtie of Kyngis, &c.=, 1556, ed. F. Hall,
D.C.L. 4_s._ „
4. =Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight=, ab. 1360, ed. Rev. Dr.
R. Morris. 10_s._ „
5. =Hume’s Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue=,
ab. 1617, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 4_s._ 1865
6. =Lancelot of the Laik=, ab. 1500, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 8_s._ „
7. =Genesis & Exodus=, ab. 1250, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 8_s._ „
8. =Morte Arthure=, ab. 1440, ed. E. Brock. 7_s._ „
9. =Thynne on Speght’s ed. of Chaucer=, A.D. 1599, ed. Dr. G.
Kingsley and Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 10_s._ „
10. =Merlin=, ab. 1440, Part I., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 2_s._ 6_d._ „
11. =Lyndesay’s Monarche, &c.=, 1552, Part I., ed. J. Small, M.A.
3_s._ „
12. =Wright’s Chaste Wife=, ab. 1462, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A.
1_s._ „
13. =Seinte Marherete=, 1200-1330, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne;
re-edited by Dr. Otto Glauning. [_Out of print._ 1866
14. =Kyng Horn, Floris and Blancheflour, &c.=, ed. Rev. J. R.
Lumby, B.D., re-ed. Dr. G. H. McKnight. 5_s._ „
15. =Political, Religious, and Love Poems=, ed. F. J. Furnivall.
7_s._ 6_d._ „
16. =The Book of Quinte Essence=, ab. 1460-70, ed. F. J.
Furnivall. 1_s._ „
17. =Parallel Extracts from 45 MSS. of Piers the Plowman=, ed.
Rev. W. W. Skeat. 1_s._ „
18. =Hali Meidenhad=, ab. 1200, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne, re-edited
by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. [_At Press._ „
19. =Lyndesay’s Monarche, &c.=, Part II., ed. J. Small, M.A.
3_s._ 6_d._ „
20. =Hampole’s English Prose Treatises=, ed. Rev. G. G. Perry.
1_s._ [_Out of print._ „
21. =Merlin=, Part II., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 4_s._ „
22. =Partenay= or =Lusignen=, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. „
23. =Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt=, 1340, ed. Rev. Dr. R.
Morris. 10_s._ 6_d._ „
24. =Hymns to the Virgin and Christ; the Parliament of Devils,
&c.=, ab. 1430, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1867
25. =The Stacions of Rome, the Pilgrims’ Sea-voyage, with Clene
Maydenhod=, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1_s._ „
26. =Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse=, from R. Thornton’s MS.,
ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 2_s._ [_Out of print._ „
27. =Levins’s Manipulus Vocabulorum, a ryming Dictionary=, 1570,
ed. H. B. Wheatley. 12_s._ „
28. =William’s Vision of Piers the Plowman=, 1362 A.D.; Text A,
Part I., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 6_s._ „
29. =Old English Homilies= (ab. 1220-30 A.D.). Series I, Part I.
Edited by Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 7_s._ „
30. =Pierce the Ploughmans Crede=, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 2_s._ „
31. =Myrc’s Duties of a Parish Priest=, in Verse, ab. 1420 A.D.,
ed. E. Peacock. 4_s._ 1868
32. =Early English Meals and Manners: the Boke of Norture of John
Russell, the Bokes of Keruynge, Curtasye, and Demeanor, the
Babees Book, Urbanitatis, &c.=, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 12_s._ „
33. =The Knight de la Tour Landry=, ab. 1440 A.D. A Book for
Daughters, ed. T. Wright, M.A. [_Out of print._ „
34. =Old English Homilies= (before 1300 A.D.). Series I, Part II.,
ed. R. Morris, LL.D. 8_s._ „
35. =Lyndesay’s Works=, Part III.: The Historie and Testament of
Squyer Meldrum, ed. F. Hall. 2_s._ „
36. =Merlin=, Part III. Ed. H. B. Wheatley. On Arthurian
Localities, by J. S. Stuart Glennie. 12_s._ 1869
37. =Sir David Lyndesay’s Works=, Part IV., Ane Satyre of the Three
Estaits. Ed. F. Hall, D.C.L. 4_s._ „
38. =William’s Vision of Piers the Plowman=, Part II. Text B. Ed.
Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 10_s._ 6_d._ „
39. =Alliterative Romance of the Destruction of Troy.= Ed. D.
Donaldson & G. A. Panton. Pt. I. 10_s._ 6_d._ „
40. =English Gilds=, their Statutes and Customs, 1389 A.D. Edit.
Toulmin Smith and Lucy T. Smith, with an Essay on Gilds and
Trades-Unions, by Dr. L. Brentano. 21_s._ 1870
41. =William Lauder’s Minor Poems.= Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 3_s._ „
42. =Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris=, Early Scottish Prophecies,
&c. Ed. J. R. Lumby, M.A. 2_s._ „
43. =Ratis Raving=, and other Moral and Religious Pieces. Ed. J.
R. Lumby, M.A. „
44. =The Alliterative Romance of Joseph of Arimathie=, or =The
Holy Grail=: from the Vernon MS.; with W. de Worde’s and
Pynson’s Lives of Joseph: ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 5_s._ 1871
45. =King Alfred’s West-Saxon Version of Gregory’s Pastoral Care=,
edited from 2 MSS., with an English translation, by Henry
Sweet, Esq., B.A., Balliol College, Oxford. Part I. 10_s._ „
46. =Legends of the Holy Rood, Symbols of the Passion and Cross
Poems=, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10_s._ „
47. =Sir David Lyndesay’s Works=, Part V., ed. Dr. J. A. H.
Murray. 3_s._ „
48. =The Times’ Whistle=, and other Poems, by R. C., 1616; ed. by
J. M. Cowper, Esq. 6_s._ „
49. =An Old English Miscellany=, containing a Bestiary, Kentish
Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, and Religious Poems of the 13th
cent., ed. from the MSS. by the Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. 10_s._ 1872
50. =King Alfred’s West-Saxon Version of Gregory’s Pastoral Care=,
ed. H. Sweet, M.A. Part II. 10_s._ „
51. =The Life of St Juliana=, 2 versions, A.D. 1230, with
translations; ed. T. O. Cockayne & E. Brock. 2_s._ „
52. =Palladius on Husbondrie=, englisht (ab. 1420 A.D.), ed. Rev.
Barton Lodge, M.A. Part I. 10_s._ „
53. =Old-English Homilies=, Series II., and three Hymns to the
Virgin and God, 13th-century, with the music to two of them,
in old and modern notation; ed. Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. 8_s._ 1873
54. =The Vision of Piers Plowman=, Text C: =Richard the Redeles=
(by William, the author of the _Vision_) and =The Crowned
King=; Part III., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 18_s._ „
55. =Generydes=, a Romance, ab. 1440 A.D., ed. W. Aldis Wright,
M.A. Part I. 3_s._ „
56. =The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy=, in
alliterative verse; ed. by D. Donaldson, Esq., and the late
Rev. G. A. Panton. Part II. 10_s._ 6_d._ 1874
57. =The Early English Version of the “Cursor Mundi”=; in four
Texts, edited by the Rev. R. Morris, M.A., LL.D. Part I,
with 2 photolithographic facsimiles. 10_s._ 6_d._ „
58. =The Blickling Homilies=, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. R. Morris, LL.D.
Part I. 8_s._ „
59. =The “Cursor Mundi,”= in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris.
Part II. 15_s._ 1875
60. =Meditacyuns on the Soper of our Lorde= (by Robert of Brunne),
edited by J. M. Cowper. 2_s._ 6_d._ „
61. =The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune=, from 5
MSS.; ed. Dr. J. A. H. Murray. 10_s._ 6_d._ „
62. =The “Cursor Mundi,”= in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris.
Part III. 15_s._ 1876
63. =The Blickling Homilies=, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris.
Part II. 7_s._ „
64. =Francis Thynne’s Embleames and Epigrams=, A.D. 1600, ed. F.
J. Furnivall. 7_s._ „
65. =Be Domes Dæge= (Bede’s _De Die Judicii_), &c., ed. J. R.
Lumby, B.D. 2_s._ „
66. =The “Cursor Mundi,”= in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris.
Part IV., with 2 autotypes. 10_s._ 1877
67. =Notes on Piers Plowman=, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A.
Part I. 21_s._ „
68. =The “Cursor Mundi,”= in 4 Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris.
Part V. 25_s._ 1878
69. =Adam Davie’s 5 Dreams about Edward II., &c.=, ed. F. J.
Furnivall, M.A. 5_s._ „
70. =Generydes=, a Romance, ed. W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Part II.
4_s._ „
71. =The Lay Folks Mass-Book=, four texts, ed. Rev. Canon
Simmons. 25_s._ 1879
72. =Palladius on Husbondrie=, englisht (ab. 1420 A.D.). Part II.
Ed. S. J. Herrtage, B.A. 15_s._ „
73. =The Blickling Homilies=, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris.
Part III. 10_s._ 1880
74. =English Works of Wyclif=, hitherto unprinted, ed. F. D.
Matthew, Esq. 20_s._ „
75. =Catholicon Anglicum=, an early English Dictionary, from Lord
Monson’s MS. A.D. 1483, ed., with Introduction & Notes, by
S. J. Herrtage, B.A.; and with a Preface by H. B. Wheatley.
20_s._ 1881
76. =Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints=, in MS. Cott. Jul. E 7.,
ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A. Part I. 10_s._ „
77. =Beowulf=, the unique MS. autotyped and transliterated, edited
by Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. 25_s._ 1882
78. =The Fifty Earliest English Wills=, in the Court of Probate,
1387-1439, ed. by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 7_s._ „
79. =King Alfred’s Orosius=, from Lord Tollemache’s 9th century
MS., Part I, ed. H. Sweet, M.A. 13_s._ 1883
79 _b._ =The Epinal Glossary=, 8th cent., ed. J. H. Hessels,
M.A. 15_s._ [_Preparing._ „
80. =The Early-English Life of St. Katherine= and its Latin
Original, ed. Dr. Einenkel. 12_s._ 1884
81. =Piers Plowman=: Notes, Glossary, &c. Part IV, completing the
work, ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A. 18_s._ „
82. =Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints=, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7., ed.
Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A., LL.D. Part II. 12_s._ 1885
83. =The Oldest English Texts, Charters, &c.=, ed. H. Sweet,
M.A. 20_s._ „
84. =Additional Analogs to ‘The Wright’s Chaste Wife,’= No. 12,
by W. A. Clouston. 1_s._ 1886
85. =The Three Kings of Cologne.= 2 English Texts, and 1 Latin,
ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 17_s._ „
86. =Prose Lives of Women Saints=, ab. 1610 A.D., ed. from the
unique MS. by Dr. C. Horstmann. 12_s._ „
87. =Early English Verse Lives of Saints= (earliest version),
Laud MS. 108, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 20_s._ 1887
88. =Hy. Bradshaw’s Life of St. Werburghe= (Pynson, 1521), ed.
Dr. C. Horstmann. 10_s._ „
89. =Vices and Virtues=, from the unique MS., ab. 1200 A.D., ed.
Dr. F. Holthausen. Part I. 8_s._ 1888
90. =Anglo-Saxon and Latin Rule of St. Benet=, interlinear Glosses,
ed. Dr. H. Logeman. 12_s._ „
91. =Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books=, ab. 1430-1450, edited
by Mr. T. Austin. 10_s._ „
92. =Eadwine’s Canterbury Psalter=, from the Trin. Cambr. MS.,
ab. 1150 A.D., ed. F. Harsley, B.A. Pt. I. 12_s._ 1889
93. =Defensor’s Liber Scintillarum=, edited from the MSS. by
Ernest Rhodes, B.A. 12_s._ „
94. =Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints=, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7,
Part III., ed. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 12_s._ 1890
95. =The Old-English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History=,
re-ed. by Dr. Thomas Miller. Part I, § 1. 18_s._ „
96. =The Old-English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History=,
re-ed. by Dr. Thomas Miller. Pt. I, § 2. 15_s._ 1891
97. =The Earliest English Prose Psalter=, edited from its 2 MSS.
by Dr. K. D. Buelbring. Part I. 15_s._ „
98. =Minor Poems of the Vernon MS.=, Part I., ed. Dr. C. Horstmann.
20_s._ 1892
99. =Cursor Mundi.= Part VI. Preface, Notes, and Glossary, ed.
Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10_s._ „
100. =Capgrave’s Life of St. Katharine=, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann,
with Forewords by Dr. Furnivall. 20_s._ 1893
101. =Cursor Mundi.= Part VII. Essay on the MSS., their Dialects,
&c., by Dr. H. Hupe. 10_s._ „
102. =Lanfranc’s Cirurgie=, ab. 1400 A.D., ed. Dr. R. von
Fleischhacker. Part I. 20_s._ 1894
103. =The Legend of the Cross=, from a 12th century MS., &c., ed.
Prof. A. S. Napier, M.A., Ph.D. 7_s._ 6_d._ „
104. =The Exeter Book= (Anglo-Saxon Poems), re-edited from the
unique MS. by I. Gollancz, M.A. Part I. 20_s._ 1895
105. =The Prymer= or =Lay-Folks’ Prayer-Book=, Camb. Univ. MS., ab.
1420, ed. Henry Littlehales. Part I. 10_s._ „
106. =R. Misyn’s Fire of Love and Mending of Life= (Hampole),
1434, 1435, ed. Rev. R. Harvey, M.A. 15_s._ 1896
107. =The English Conquest of Ireland=, A.D. 1166-1185, 2 Texts,
1425, 1440, Pt. I., ed. Dr. Furnivall. 15_s._ „
108. =Child-Marriages and -Divorces, Trothplights, &c.= Chester
Depositions, 1561-6, ed. Dr. Furnivall. 15_s._ 1897
109. =The Prymer= or =Lay-Folks’ Prayer-Book=, ab. 1420, ed. Henry
Littlehales. Part II. 10_s._ „
110. =The Old-English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History=,
ed. Dr. T. Miller. Part II, § 1. 15_s._ 1898
111. =The Old-English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History=,
ed. Dr. T. Miller. Part II, § 2. 15_s._ „
112. =Merlin=, Part IV: =Outlines of the Legend of Merlin=, by
Prof. W. E. Mead, Ph.D. 15_s._ 1899
113. =Queen Elizabeth’s Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch &c.
&c.=, ed. Miss C. Pemberton. 15_s._ „
114. =Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints=, Part IV and last, ed.
Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 10_s._ 1900
115. =Jacob’s Well=, edited from the unique Salisbury Cathedral
MS. by Dr. A. Brandeis. Part I. 10_s._ „
116. =An Old-English Martyrology=, re-edited by Dr. G. Herzfeld.
10_s._ „
117. =Minor Poems of the Vernon MS.=, edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall.
Part II. 15_s._ 1901
118. =The Lay Folks’ Catechism=, ed. by Canon Simmons and Rev.
H. E. Nolloth, M.A. 5_s._ „
119. =Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne= (1303), and its French
original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. I. 10_s._ „
120. =The Rule of St. Benet=, in Northern Prose and Verse, &
Caxton’s Summary, ed. Dr. E. A. Kock. 15_s._ 1902
121. =The Laud MS. Troy-Book=, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595,
by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part I. 15_s._ „
122. =The Laud MS. Troy-Book=, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595,
by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part II. 20_s._ 1903
123. =Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne= (1303), and its French
original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. II. 10_s._ „
124. =Twenty-six Political and other Poems= from Digby MS. 102 &c.,
ed. by Dr. J. Kail. Part I. 10_s._ 1904
125. =Medieval Records of a London City Church=, ed. Henry
Littlehales. Pt. I. 20_s._ „
126. =An Alphabet of Tales=, in Northern English from Latin,
ed. Mrs. M. M. Banks. Part I. 10_s._ „
127. 1905
=EXTRA SERIES.=
_The Publications for 1867-1901 (one guinea each year) are_:—
I. =William of Palerne=; or, =William and the Werwolf=.
Re-edited by Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 13_s._ 1867
II. =Early English Pronunciation= with especial Reference
to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part
I. 10_s._ „
III. =Caxton’s Book of Curtesye=, in Three Versions. Ed. F.
J. Furnivall. 5_s._ 1868
IV. =Havelok the Dane.= Re-edited by the Rev. W. W. Skeat,
M.A. 10_s._ „
V. =Chaucer’s Boethius.= Edited from the two best MSS. by
Rev. Dr. R. Morris 12_s._ „
VI. =Chevelere Assigne.= Re-edited from the unique MS. by
Lord Aldenham, M.A. 3_s._ „
VII. =Early English Pronunciation=, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S.
Part II. 10_s._ 1869
VIII. =Queene Elizabethes Achademy, &c.= Ed. F. J. Furnivall.
Essays on early Italian and German Books of Courtesy,
by W. M. Rossetti and Dr. E. Oswald. 13_s._ „
IX. =Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caveat,
&c.= Ed. E. Viles & F. J. Furnivall. 7_s._ 6_d._ „
X. =Andrew Boorde’s Introduction of Knowledge, 1547,
Dyetary of Helth, 1542, Barnes in Defence of the
Berde, 1542-3.= Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 18_s._ 1870
XI. =Barbour’s Bruce=, Part I. Ed. from MSS. and editions,
by Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 12_s._ „
XII. =England in Henry VIII.’s Time=: a Dialogue between
Cardinal Pole & Lupset, by Thom. Starkey, Chaplain
to Henry VIII. Ed. J. M. Cowper. Part II. 12_s._
(Part I. is No. XXXII, 1878, 8_s._) 1871
XIII. =A Supplicacyon of the Beggers=, by Simon Fish,
1528-9 A.D., ed. F. J. Furnivall; with =A
Supplication to our Moste Soueraigne Lorde=;
=A Supplication of the Poore Commons=; and =The
Decaye of England by the Great Multitude of Sheep=,
ed. by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 6_s._ „
XIV. =Early English Pronunciation=, by A. J. Ellis, Esq.,
F.R.S. Part III. 10_s._ „
XV. =Robert Crowley’s Thirty-One Epigrams, Voyce of the
Last Trumpet, Way to Wealth, &c.=, A.D. 1550-1,
edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 12_s._ 1872
XVI. =Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe.= Ed. Rev. W.
W. Skeat, M.A. 6_s._ „
XVII. =The Complaynt of Scotlande=, 1549 A.D., with 4
Tracts (1542-48), ed. Dr. Murray. Part I. 10_s._ „
XVIII. =The Complaynt of Scotlande=, 1549 A.D., ed. Dr.
Murray. Part II. 8_s._ 1873
XIX. =Oure Ladyes Myroure=, A.D. 1530, ed. Rev. J. H. Blunt,
M.A. 24_s._ „
XX. =Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail= (ab. 1450 A.D.),
ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. Part I. 8_s._ 1874
XXI. =Barbour’s Bruce=, Part II., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat,
M.A. 4_s._ „
XXII. =Henry Brinklow’s Complaynt of Roderyck Mors= (ab.
1542): and =The Lamentacion of a Christian against
the Citie of London=, made by Roderigo Mors, A.D.
1545. Ed. J. M. Cowper. 9_s._ „
XXIII. =Early English Pronunciation=, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S.
Part IV. 10_s._ „
XXIV. =Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail=, ed. F. J.
Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. Part II. 10_s._ 1875
XXV. =Guy of Warwick=, 15th-century Version, ed. Prof.
Zupitza. Part I. 20_s._ „
XXVI. =Guy of Warwick=, 15th-century Version, ed. Prof.
Zupitza. Part II. 14_s._ 1876
XXVII. =Bp. Fisher’s English Works= (died 1535), ed. by Prof.
J. E. B. Mayor. Part I, the Text. 16_s._ „
XXVIII. =Lovelich’s Holy Grail=, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A.,
Ph.D. Part III. 10_s._ 1877
XXIX. =Barbour’s Bruce.= Part III., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat,
M.A. 21_s._ „
XXX. =Lovelich’s Holy Grail=, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A.,
Ph.D. Part IV. 15_s._ 1878
XXXI. =The Alliterative Romance of Alexander and Dindimus=,
ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 6_s._ „
XXXII. =Starkey’s “England in Henry VIII’s time.”= Pt. I.
=Starkey’s Life and Letters=, ed. S. J. Herrtage. 8_s._ „
XXXIII. =Gesta Romanorum= (englisht ab. 1440), ed. S. J.
Herrtage, B.A. 15_s._ 1879
XXXIV. =The Charlemagne Romances:—1. Sir Ferumbras=, from
Ashm. MS. 33, ed. S. J. Herrtage. 15_s._ „
XXXV. =Charlemagne Romances:—2. The Sege off Melayne, Sir
Otuell, &c.=, ed. S. J. Herrtage. 12_s._ 1880
XXXVI. =Charlemagne Romances:—3. Lyf of Charles the Grete=,
Pt. I., ed. S. J. Herrtage. 16_s._ „
XXXVII. =Charlemagne Romances:—4. Lyf of Charles the Grete=,
Pt. II., ed. S. J. Herrtage. 15_s._ 1881
XXXVIII. =Charlemagne Romances:—5. The Sowdone of Babylone=,
ed. Dr. Hausknecht. 15_s._ „
XXXIX. =Charlemagne Romances:—6. Rauf Colyear, Roland, Otuel,
&c.=, ed. S. J. Herrtage, B.A. 15_s._ 1882
XL. =Charlemagne Romances:—7. Huon of Burdeux=, by Lord
Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Part I. 15_s._ „
XLI. =Charlemagne Romances:—8. Huon of Burdeux=, by Lord
Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Pt. II. 15_s._ 1883
XLII. =Guy of Warwick=: 2 texts (Auchinleck MS. and Caius
MS.), ed. Prof. Zupitza. Part I. 15_s._ „
XLIII. =Charlemagne Romances:—9. Huon of Burdeux=, by Lord
Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Pt. III. 15_s._ 1884
XLIV. =Charlemagne Romances:—10. The Four Sons of Aymon=, ed.
Miss Octavia Richardson. Pt. I. 15_s._ „
XLV. =Charlemagne Romances:—11. The Four Sons of Aymon=, ed.
Miss O. Richardson. Pt. II. 20_s._ 1885
XLVI. =Sir Bevis of Hamton=, from the Auchinleck and other
MSS., ed. Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D. Part I. 10_s._ „
XLVII. =The Wars of Alexander=, ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D.,
LL.D. 20_s._ 1886
XLVIII. =Sir Bevis of Hamton=, ed. Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D. Part
II. 10_s._ „
XLIX. =Guy of Warwick=, 2 texts (Auchinleck and Caius MSS.),
Pt. II., ed. Prof. J. Zupitza, Ph.D. 15_s._ 1887
L. =Charlemagne Romances:—12. Huon of Burdeux=, by Lord
Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Part IV. 5_s._ „
LI. =Torrent of Portyngale=, from the unique MS. in the
Chetham Library, ed. E. Adam, Ph.D. 10_s._ „
LII. =Bullein’s Dialogue against the Feuer Pestilence, 1578=
(ed. 1, 1564). Ed. M. & A. H. Bullen. 10_s._ 1888
LIII. =Vicary’s Anatomie of the Body of Man, 1548=, ed. 1577,
ed. F. J. & Percy Furnivall. Part I. 15_s._ „
LIV. =Caxton’s Englishing of Alain Chartier’s Curial=, ed.
Dr. F. J. Furnivall & Prof. P. Meyer. 5_s._ „
LV. =Barbour’s Bruce=, ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D.
Part IV. 5_s._ 1889
LVI. =Early English Pronunciation=, by A. J. Ellis, Esq.,
F.R.S. Pt. V., the present English Dialects. 25_s._ „
LVII. =Caxton’s Eneydos=, A.D. 1490, coll. with its French,
ed. M. T. Culley, M.A. & Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 13_s._ 1890
LVIII. =Caxton’s Blanchardyn & Eglantine=, c. 1489, extracts
from ed. 1595, & French, ed. Dr. L. Kellner. 17_s._ „
LIX. =Guy of Warwick=, 2 texts (Auchinleck and Caius MSS.),
Part III., ed. Prof. J. Zupitza, Ph.D. 15_s._ 1891
LX. =Lydgate’s Temple of Glass=, re-edited from the MSS.
by Dr. J. Schick. 15_s._ „
LXI. =Hoccleve’s Minor Poems, I.=, from the Phillipps and
Durham MSS., ed. F. J. Furnivall, Ph.D. 15_s._ 1892
LXII. =The Chester Plays=, re-edited from the MSS. by the
late Dr. Hermann Deimling. Part I. 15_s._ „
LXIII. =Thomas a Kempis’s De Imitatione Christi=, englisht ab.
1440, & 1502, ed. Prof. J. K. Ingram. 15_s._ 1893
LXIV. =Caxton’s Godfrey of Boloyne=, or =Last Siege of
Jerusalem=, 1481, ed. Dr. Mary N. Colvin. 15_s._ „
LXV. =Sir Bevis of Hamton=, ed. Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D.
Part III. 15_s._ 1894
LXVI. =Lydgate’s and Burgh’s Secrees of Philisoffres=, ab.
1445-50, ed. R. Steele, B.A. 15_s._ „
LXVII. =The Three Kings’ Sons=, a Romance, ab. 1500, Part I.,
the Text, ed. Dr. Furnivall. 10_s._ 1895
LXVIII. =Melusine=, the prose Romance, ab. 1500, Part I, the
Text, ed. A. K. Donald. 20_s._ „
LXIX. =Lydgate’s Assembly of the Gods=, ed. Prof. Oscar L.
Triggs, M.A., Ph.D. 15_s._ 1896
LXX. =The Digby Plays=, edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 15_s._ „
LXXI. =The Towneley Plays=, ed. Geo. England and A. W. Pollard,
M.A. 15_s._ 1897
LXXII. =Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes=, 1411-12, =and 14 Poems=,
edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 15_s._ „
LXXIII. =Hoccleve’s Minor Poems, II.=, from the Ashburnham MS.,
ed. I. Gollancz, M.A. [_At Press._ „
LXXIV. =Secreta Secretorum=, 3 prose Englishings, by Jas. Yonge,
1428, ed. R. Steele, B.A. Part I. 20_s._ 1898
LXXV. =Speculum Guidonis de Warwyk=, edited by Miss G. L.
Morrill, M.A., Ph.D. 10_s._ „
LXXVI. =George Ashby’s Poems, &c.=, ed. Miss Mary Bateson.
15_s._ 1899
LXXVII. =Lydgate’s DeGuilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Life of
Man=, 1426, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Part I. 10_s._ „
LXXVIII. =The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene=, by T. Robinson,
c. 1620, ed. Dr. H. O. Sommer. 5_s._ „
LXXIX. =Caxton’s Dialogues, English and French=, c. 1483, ed.
Henry Bradley, M.A. 10_s._ 1900
LXXX. =Lydgate’s Two Nightingale Poems=, ed. Dr. Otto
Glauning. 5_s._ „
LXXXI. =Gower’s Confessio Amantis=, edited by G. C. Macaulay,
M.A. Vol. I. 15_s._ „
LXXXII. =Gower’s Confessio Amantis=, edited by G. C. Macaulay,
M.A. Vol. II. 15_s._ 1901
LXXXIII. =Lydgate’s DeGuilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Life of
Man=, 1426, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Pt. II. 10_s._ „
LXXXIV. =Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuality=, edited by Dr. E.
Sieper. Part I. 5_s._ „
LXXXV. =Alexander Scott’s Poems=, 1568, from the unique
Edinburgh MS., ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. 10_s._ 1902
LXXXVI. =William of Shoreham’s Poems=, re-ed. from the unique
MS. by Dr. M. Konrath. Part I. 10_s._ „
LXXXVII. =Two Coventry Corpus-Christi Plays=, re-edited by
Hardin Craig, M.A. 10_s._ [_At Press._ „
LXXXVIII. =Le Morte Arthur=, re-edited from the Harleian MS.
2252 by Prof. Bruce, Ph.D. 15_s._ 1903
LXXXIX. =Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuality=, edited by Dr. E.
Sieper. Part II. 15_s._ „
XC. =English Fragments from Latin Medieval Service-Books=,
ed. by Hy. Littlehales. 5_s._ „
XCI. =William of Shoreham’s Poems=, re-ed. from the unique
MS. by Dr. M. Konrath. Part II. [_At Press._ 1904
EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY TEXTS PREPARING.
Besides the Texts named as at press on p. 12 of the Cover of the Early
English Text Society’s last Books, the following Texts are also slowly
preparing for the Society:—
=ORIGINAL SERIES.=
=The Earliest English Prose Psalter=, ed. Dr. K. D. Buelbring. Part II.
=The Earliest English Verse Psalter=, 3 texts, ed. Rev. R. Harvey, M.A.
=Anglo-Saxon Poems=, from the Vercelli MS., re-edited by Prof. I.
Gollancz, M.A.
=Anglo-Saxon Glosses= to Latin Prayers and Hymns, edited by Dr. F.
Holthausen.
=All the Anglo-Saxon Homilies and Lives of Saints= not accessible in
English editions, including those of the Vercelli MS. &c., edited
by Prof. Napier, M.A., Ph.D.
=The Anglo-Saxon Psalms=; all the MSS. in Parallel Texts, ed. Dr. H.
Logeman and F. Harsley, B.A.
=Beowulf=, a critical Text, &c., edited by a Pupil of the late Prof.
Zupitza, Ph.D.
=Byrhtferth’s Handboc=, edited by Prof. G. Hempl.
=The Seven Sages=, in the Northern Dialect, from a Cotton MS., edited
by Dr. Squires.
=The Master of the Game, a Book of Huntynge= for Hen. V. when Prince
of Wales. (_Editor wanted._)
=Ailred’s Rule of Nuns, &c.=, edited from the Vernon MS., by the Rev.
Canon H. R. Bramley, M.A.
=Early English Verse Lives of Saints=, Standard Collection, from the
Harl. MS. (_Editor wanted._)
=Early English Confessionals=, edited by Dr. R. von Fleischhacker.
=A Lapidary=, from Lord Tollemache’s MS., &c., edited by Dr. R. von
Fleischhacker.
=Early English Deeds and Documents=, from unique MSS., ed. Dr. Lorenz
Morsbach.
=Gilbert Banastre’s Poems=, and other =Boccaccio englishings=, ed. by
Prof. Dr. Max Förster.
=Lanfranc’s Cirurgie=, ab. 1400 A.D., ed. Dr. R. von Fleischhacker,
Part II.
=William of Nassington’s Mirror of Life=, from Jn. of Waldby, edited by
J. A. Herbert, M.A.
=More Early English Wills from the Probate Registry at Somerset House.=
(_Editor wanted._)
=Early Lincoln Wills and Documents from the Bishops’ Registers, &c.=,
edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall.
=Early Canterbury Wills=, edited by William Cowper, B.A., and J. Meadows
Cowper.
=Early Norwich Wills=, edited by Walter Rye and F. J. Furnivall.
=The Cartularies of Oseney Abbey and Godstow Nunnery=, englisht ab. 1450,
ed. Rev. A. Clark, M.A.
=Early Lyrical Poems= from the Harl. MS. 2253, re-edited by Prof. Hall
Griffin, M.A.
=Alliterative Prophecies=, edited from the MSS. by Prof. Brandl, Ph.D.
=Miscellaneous Alliterative Poems=, edited from the MSS. by Dr. L.
Morsbach.
=Bird and Beast Poems=, a collection from MSS., edited by Dr. K. D.
Buelbring.
=Scire Mori, &c.=, from the Lichfield MS. 16, ed. Mrs. L. Grindon,
LL.A., and Miss Florence Gilbert.
=Nicholas Trivet’s French Chronicle=, from Sir A. Acland-Hood’s unique
MS., ed. by Miss Mary Bateson.
=Early English Homilies= in Harl. 2276 &c., c. 1400, ed. J. Friedländer.
=Extracts from the Registers of Boughton=, ed. Hy. Littlehales, Esq.
=The Diary of Prior Moore of Worcester=, A.D. 1518-35, from the unique
MS., ed. Henry Littlehales, Esq.
=The Pore Caitif=, edited from its MSS., by Mr. Peake.
=Thomas Berkley’s englisht Vegetius on the Art of War=, MS. 30 Magd.
Coll. Oxf., ed. L. C. Wharton, M.A.
=Richard Maydenstone’s Poems=, MS. Rawl. A 389, edited by Dr. W. Heuser.
=Early Middle-English Charters=, edited by Dr. W. Heuser.
=EXTRA SERIES.=
=Bp. Fisher’s English Works=, Pt. II., with his =Life and Letters=, ed.
Rev. Ronald Bayne, B.A. [_At Press._
=Sir Tristrem=, from the unique Auchinleck MS., edited by George F.
Black.
=John of Arderne’s Surgery=, c. 1425, ed. J. F. Payne, M.D.
=De Guilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Sowle=, edited by Prof. Dr. Leon
Kellner.
=Vicary’s Anatomie, 1548=, from the unique MS. copy by George Jeans,
edited by F. J. & Percy Furnivall.
=Vicary’s Anatomie, 1548=, ed. 1577, edited by F. J. & Percy Furnivall.
Part II. [_At Press._
=A Compilacion of Surgerye=, from H. de Mandeville and Lanfrank, A.D.
1392, ed. Dr. J. F. Payne.
=William Staunton’s St. Patrick’s Purgatory, &c.=, ed. Mr. G. P. Krapp,
U.S.A.
=Trevisa’s Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum=, re-edited by Dr. R.
von Fleischhacker.
=Bullein’s Dialogue against the Feuer Pestilence=, 1564, 1573, 1578. Ed.
A. H. and M. Bullen. Pt. II.
=The Romance of Boctus and Sidrac=, edited from the MSS. by Dr. K. D.
Buelbring.
=The Romance of Clariodus=, re-edited by Dr. K. D. Buelbring.
=Sir Amadas=, re-edited from the MSS. by Dr. K. D. Buelbring.
=Sir Degrevant=, edited from the MSS. by Dr. K. Luick.
=Robert of Brunne’s Chronicle of England=, from the Inner Temple MS.,
ed. by Prof. W. E. Mead, Ph.D.
=Maundeville’s Voiage and Travaile=, re-edited from the Cotton MS. Titus
C. 16, &c., by Miss M. Bateson.
=Avowynge of Arthur=, re-edited from the unique Ireland MS. by Dr. K. D.
Buelbring.
=Guy of Warwick=, Copland’s version, edited by a pupil of the late Prof.
Zupitza, Ph.D.
=Awdelay’s Poems=, re-edited from the unique MS. Douce 302, by Prof. Dr.
E. Wülfing.
=The Wyse Chylde= and other early Treatises on Education, Northwich
School, Harl. 2099 &c., ed. G. Collar, B.A.
=Caxton’s Dictes and Sayengis of Philosophirs, 1477=, with Lord
Tollemache’s MS. version, ed. S. I. Butler, Esq.
=Caxton’s Book of the Ordre of Chyualry=, collated with Loutfut’s
Scotch copy. (_Editor wanted._)
=Lydgate’s Court of Sapience=, edited by Dr. Borsdorf.
=Lydgate’s Lyfe of oure Lady=, ed. by Prof. Georg Fiedler, Ph.D.
=Lydgate’s Dance of Death=, edited by Miss Florence Warren.
=Lydgate’s Life of St. Edmund=, edited from the MSS. by Dr. Axel Erdmann.
=Lydgate’s Triumph Poems=, edited by Dr. E. Sieper.
=Lydgate’s Minor Poems=, edited by Dr. Otto Glauning.
=Richard Coer de Lion=, re-edited from Harl. MS. 4690, by Prof.
Hausknecht, Ph.D.
=The Romance of Athelstan=, re-edited by a pupil of the late Prof.
J. Zupitza, Ph.D.
=The Romance of Sir Degare=, re-edited by Dr. Breul.
=Mulcaster’s Positions= 1581, and =Elementarie= 1582, ed. Dr. Th. Klaehr,
Dresden.
=Walton’s verse Boethius de Consolatione=, edited by Mark H. Liddell,
U.S.A.
=The Gospel of Nichodemus=, edited by Ernest Riedel.
=Sir Landeval and Sir Launfal=, edited by Dr. Zimmermann.
=Rolland’s Seven Sages=, the Scottish version of 1560, edited by George
F. Black.
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at one-third less than the List-prices by sending the cash for them in
advance to the Hon. Secretary.
_MSS. and Books that Editors are wanted for._
Among the MSS. and old books which need copying or re-editing, are:—
=ORIGINAL SERIES.=
=English Inventories= and other MSS. in Canterbury Cathedral (5th
Report, Hist. MSS. Com.).
=Maumetrie=, from Lord Tollemache’s MS.
=The Romance of Troy.= Harl. 525.
=Biblical MS.=, Corpus Cambr. 434 (ab. 1375).
=Hampole’s= unprinted Works.
=Þe Clowde of Unknowyng=, from Harl. MSS. 2373, 959, Bibl. Reg. 17 C 26,
&c. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 14.
=A Lanterne of Liȝt=, from Harl. MS. 2324.
=Soule-hele=, from the Vernon MS.
=Lydgate’s= unprinted Works.
=Boethius de Consol.=; =Pilgrim=, 1426, &c. &c.
=Early Treatises on Music: Descant, the Gamme, &c.=
=Skelton’s englishing of Diodorus Siculus.=
=Boethius=, in prose, MS. Auct. F. 3. 5, Bodley.
=Penitential Psalms=, by Rd. Maydenstoon, Brampton, &c. (Rawlinson, A.
389, Douce 232, &c.).
=Documents from the early Registers of the Bishops of all Dioceses in
Great Britain.=
=Ordinances and Documents of the City of Worcester.=
=Chronicles of the Brute.=
=T. Breus’s Passion of Christ, 1422.= Harl. 2338.
=Jn. Crophill or Crephill’s Tracts=, Harl. 1735.
=Burgh’s Cato.=
=Memoriale Credencium=, &c., Harl. 2398.
=Book for Recluses=, Harl. 2372.
=Lollard Theological Treatises=, Harl. 2343, 2330, &c.
=H. Selby’s Northern Ethical Tract=, Harl. 2388, art. 20.
=Hilton’s Ladder of Perfection=, Cott. Faust. B 6, &c.
=Supplementary Early English Lives of Saints.=
=The Early and Later Festialls=, ab. 1400 and 1440 A.D. Cotton Claud.
A 2; Univ. Coll. Oxf. 102, &c.
=Select Prose Treatises from the Vernon MS.=
=Jn. Hyde’s MS. of Romances and Ballads=, Balliol 354.
=Metrical Homilies=, Edinburgh MS.
=Lyrical Poems from the Fairfax MS. 16=, &c.
=Prose Life of St. Audry=, A.D. 1595, Corp. Oxf. 120.
=English Miscellanies from MSS.=, Corp. Oxford.
=Miscellanies from Oxford College MSS.=
=Disce Mori=, Jesus Coll. Oxf. 39; Bodl. Laud 99.
=The Romance of Raymond of Toulouse=, MS. in Trin. Coll. Cambridge.
=Mirrour of the blessed lijf of Ihesu Crist.= MSS. of Sir Hy. Ingilby,
Bart., Lord Aldenham, Univ. Coll. Oxf. 123, &c.
=Poem on Virtues and Vices=, &c., Harl. 2260.
=Maundevyle’s Legend of Gwydo=, Queen’s, Oxf. 383.
=Book of Warrants of Edw. VI.=, &c., New Coll. Oxf. 328.
=Adam Loutfut’s Heraldic Tracts=, Harl. 6140-50.
=Rules for Gunpowder and Ordnance=, Harl. 6355.
=John Watton’s englisht Speculum Christiani=, Corpus, Oxf. 155, Laud G.
12, Thoresby 530, Harl. 2250, art. 20.
=Verse and Prose= in Harl. MS. 4012.
=EXTRA SERIES.=
=Erle of Tolous.=
=Ypotis.=
=Sir Eglamoure.=
=Miscellaneous Miracle Plays.=
=Sir Gowther.=
=Dame Siriz, &c.=
=Orfeo= (Digby, 86).
=Dialogues between the Soul and Body.=
=Barlaam and Josaphat.=
=Amis and Amiloun.=
=Ipomedon.=
=Sir Generides=, from Lord Tollemache’s MS.
=The Troy-Book fragments= once cald Barbour’s, in the Cambr. Univ.
Library and Douce MSS.
=Poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans.=
=Carols and Songs.=
=Songs and Ballads=, Ashmole MS. 48.
=The Siege of Rouen=, from Harl. MSS. 2256, 753, Egerton 1995, Bodl.
3562, E. Museo 124, &c.
=Octavian.=
=Ywain and Gawain.=
=Libeaus Desconus.=
=Aunturs of Arther.=
=Avowyng of King Arther.=
=Sir Perceval of Gallas.=
=Sir Isumbras.=
=Partonope of Blois=, Univ. Coll. Oxf. 188, &c.
=Pilgrimage to Jerusalem=, Queen’s Coll. Oxf. 357.
=Other Pilgrimages to Jerusalem=, Harl. 2333, &c.
=Horæ, Penitential Psalms=, &c., Queen’s Coll. Oxf. 207.
=St. Brandon’s Confession=, Queen’s Coll. Oxf. 210.
=Scotch Heraldry Tracts=, copy of =Caxton’s Book of Chivalry=, &c.,
Queen’s Coll. Oxford 161.
=Stevyn Scrope’s Doctryne and Wysedome of the Auncyent Philosophers=,
A.D. 1450, Harl. 2266.
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120. =The Rule of St. Benet=: Two Early English Versions and Caxton’s
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121. =The Laud Troy-Book=, edited from the unique MS. Laud 595, by Dr.
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_The Publications for 1903 are_:—
122. =The Laud Troy-Book=, edited from the unique MS. Laud 595, by Dr.
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123. =Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne= (1303), and its French original,
re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. II. 10_s._
_The Publications for 1904 are_:—
124. =Twenty-six Political and other Poems= from Digby MS. 102, &c.,
edited by Dr. J. Kail. Part I. 10_s._
125. =The Medieval Records of a London City Church (St. Mary-at-Hill)=,
edited by Hy. Littlehales. Pt. I. 10_s._
126. =An Alphabet of Tales=, in Northern English from Latin, ed. Mrs.
M. M. Banks. Part I. 10_s._
_The Publications for 1905 and 1906 will be chosen from_:—
=The Medieval Records of a London City Church (St. Mary-at-Hill)=,
edited by Hy. Littlehales. Part II.
=An Alphabet of Tales=, in Northern English from Latin, ed. Mrs. M. M.
Banks. Part II. [_At Press._
=Twenty-six Political and other Poems= from Digby MS. 102, &c., edited
by Dr. J. Kail. Part II.
=The Coventry Leet Book=, edited by Miss M. Dormer Harris. Part I. [_At
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=The Laud Troy-Book=, edited from the unique MS. Laud 595, by Dr. J.
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=The Old-English Rule of Bp. Chrodegang=, and the =Capitula of Bp.
Theodulf=, edited from the unique MS. 191, C. C. C. Camb., by
Prof. Napier, Ph.D.
=Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne= (1303), and its French original,
re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Part III.
The Alliterative =Siege of Jerusalem=, edited by Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D.,
and Prof. Kaluza, Ph.D. [_At Press._
=Minor Poems of the Vernon MS.= Part III. Introduction and Glossary by
H. Hartley, M.A.
=Sir David Lyndesay’s Works.= Part VI. and last. Edited by the Rev. Wm.
Bayne, M.A. [_At Press._
=Jacob’s Well=, edited from the unique Salisbury Cathedral MS. by Dr.
A. Brandeis. Part II. [_At Press._
=Vices and Virtues=, from the unique MS., ab. 1200 A.D., ed. Prof. Dr.
F. Holthausen, Part II. [_At Press._
=The Exeter Book (Anglo-Saxon Poems)=, re-ed. from the unique MS., by
Prof. Gollancz, M.A. Part II. [_At Press._
=A Chronicle of England to 1327 A.D.=, Northern verse (42,000 lines),
ab. 1400 A.D., ed. M. L. Perrin, B.A.
=Prayers and Devotions=, from the unique MS. Cotton Titus C. 19, ed.
Hy. Littlehales, Esq. [_Copied._
=North-English Metrical Homilies= from Ashmole MS. 42 &c., ed. G. H.
Gerould, D.Litt.
=Vegetius on the Art of War=, edited from the MSS. by L. C. Wharton,
M.A.
=The Godstow Chartulary=, edited from the unique MS. by the Rev. Andrew
Clark, M.A.
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_The Publications for 1902 (one guinea) are_:—
LXXXV. =Alexander Scott’s Poems=, 1568, from the unique Edinburgh MS.,
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LXXXVI. =William of Shoreham’s Poems=, re-edited by Dr. M. Konrath.
Part I. 10_s._
LXXXVII. =Two Coventry Corpus-Christi Plays=, re-edited by Hardin Craig,
M.A. 10_s._ [_At Press._
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LXXXVIII. =Le Morte Arthur=, in 8-line stanzas, re-edited from Harl.
MS. 2252, by Prof. Bruce, Ph.D. 10_s._
LXXXIX. =Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuality=, edited by Ernst Sieper,
Ph.D. Part II. 15_s._
XC. =English Fragments from Latin Medieval Service-Books=, ed.
by Hy. Littlehales. 5_s._
_The Publications for 1904 and 1905 will be chosen from_:—
=William of Shoreham’s Poems=, re-edited by Dr. M. Konrath. Part II.
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=Lydgate’s DeGuilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Life of Man.= Part III,
Introduction, &c., by Miss Locock.
=The Macro Plays=, edited from Mr. Gurney’s unique MS. by Dr. Furnivall
and A. W. Pollard, M.A. [_At Press._
=Lovelich’s Romance of Merlin=, ed. from the unique MS. in Corp. Chr.
Coll. Camb. by Dr. E. A. Kock. [_At Press._
=Melusine=, the prose Romance, from the unique MS., ab. 1500, ed. A. K.
Donald. B.A. Part II. [_At Press._
=Promptorium Parvulorum=, c. 1440, from the Winchester MS., ed. Rev. A.
L. Mayhew, M.A. Part I. [_At Press._
=Lydgate’s Dance of Death=, edited from the MSS. by Miss Florence Warren.
=Secreta Secretorum=: three prose Englishings, ab. 1440, ed. R. Steele,
B.A. Part II. [_At Press._
=The Craft of Nombrynge, the earliest English Treatise on Arithmetic=,
ed. R. Steele, B.A. [_At Press._
=The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London=, MS.
ab. 1425, ed Dr. Norman Moore. [_Set._
=The Chester Plays=, Part II., re-edited by Dr. Matthews. [_At Press._
=Lichfield Gilds=, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall; Introduction by Prof. E. C.
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=John Hart’s Orthographie=, from his unique MS. 1551, and his
black-letter text, 1569, ed. Prof. Otto Jespersen, Ph.D.
=John Hart’s Methode to teach Reading, 1570=, ed. Prof. Otto Jespersen,
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=Extracts from the Rochester Diocesan Registers=, ed. Hy. Littlehales,
Esq.
=The Owl and Nightingale=, 2 Texts parallel, ed. G. F. H. Sykes, Esq.
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=The Three Kings’ Sons=, Part II, French collation, Introduction, &c.,
by Dr. L. Kellner.
=The Coventry Plays=, re-edited from the unique MS. by Dr. Matthews.
=Emare=, re-edited from the MSS. by Miss Rickert.
=The Ancren Riwle=, edited from its five MSS., by the late Prof. E.
Kölbing, Ph.D., and Dr. Thümmler.
=Mandeville’s prose Brut, or Chronicle of England=, edited from the
MSS. by Dr. Brie.
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Footnotes: EETS Texts
[1] He was born about 1295. See Abbé GOUJET’S _Bibliothèque française_,
Vol. IX, p. 73-4.—P. M. The Roxburghe Club printed the 1st version in
1893.
[2] The Roxburghe Club’s copy of this 2nd version was lent to Mr. Currie,
and unluckily burnt too with his other MSS.
[3] These 3 MSS. have not yet been collated, but are believed to be all
of the same version.
[4] Another MS. is in the Pepys Library.
[5] According to Lord Aldenham’s MS.
[6] These were printed in France, late in the 15th or early in the 16th
century.
[7] 15th cent., containing only the _Vie humaine_.
[8] 15th cent., containing all the 3 Pilgrimages, the 3rd being Jesus
Christ’s.
[9] 14th cent., containing the _Vie humaine_ and the 2nd Pilgrimage, _de
l’Ame_: both incomplete.
[10] Ab. 1430, 106 leaves (leaf 1 of text wanting), with illuminations of
nice little devils—red, green, tawny, &c.—and damnd souls, fires, angels
&c.
[11] Of these, Mr. Harsley is preparing a new edition, with collations
of all the MSS. Many copies of Thorpe’s book, not issued by the Ælfric
Society, are still in stock.
Of the Vercelli Homilies, the Society has bought the copy made by Prof.
G. Lattanzi.Project Gutenberg
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