English fragments from Latin medieval service-books
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Title: English fragments from Latin medieval service-books
with two coloured facsimiles from medieval prymers

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Italicized letters within words, representing expanded abbreviations, are shown in the e-text with braces (“curly brackets”): Pat{er} n{oste}r. Readers who find this added information distracting may globally delete all braces; they are not used for any other purpose.

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In the original book, the EETS catalogue material was wrapped around the body of the text, with pp. 1-6 at the start of the book and 7-12 at the end. This has all been moved to the end.

Headnotes appeared at the top of some pages, like subsidiary chapter headings. They have been retained and moved to the beginning of the most appropriate paragraph.

Footnotes were numbered separately for each page. In this e-text, footnotes are numbered for each section, and grouped at the end of the section. In one section, there are two types of footnotes, referring to two parallel texts. One type of these footnotes uses numbers, the other uses letters a, b, c etc, as in the original book. Footnote markers 1like so1 denote that the footnote applies to the passage of text that appears between the markers; the footnote itself is numbered 1-1.

English Fragments
from
Latin Medieval Service-Books.

Early English Text Society,
Extra Series, XC.
1903.

BERLIN: ASHER & CO., 13, UNTER DEN LINDEN.
NEW YORK: C. SCRIBNER & CO.; LEYPOLDT & HOLT.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

English Fragments
from
Latin Medieval Service-Books

WITH
TWO COLOURED FACSIMILES
FROM
Medieval Prymers.

EDITED BY
HENRY LITTLEHALES.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
By KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., LIMITED,
DRYDEN HOUSE, 43, GERRARD STREET, SOHO, W.
1903

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.

1N. I cristene þe in þe name of þe fader, and of þe sone, and of þe holy gost.

2Godfaderis 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 3fot, 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.

1I 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.

2Lo, 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 3before 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?

4N. 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}, 5as a wyf owyd to hur husb[an]dd,5 til deth vs departe, as holi cherche it 5wil5 ordeyne: and therto i plith the myn trowthe.

6With 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.

1Beleuyst þow in god, fader almythi, makere of heuene and of erthe?

I beleue.

Beleuyst þow i{n} his sone, þe secunde p{er}sone in trinite, crist ih{es}u, the whiche was conseyuyd be þe myght of þe holy gost, and born of þe blessid mayden, owre ladi seynt marie?

Credo.

Beleuest thow that he leued here two and thritty ȝer and more, and suffred at þe last, deth on þe cros for þe loue of mankende?

Credo.

Beleuyst þow that he wente to helle & took owt adam and eue and the sowles þat were þerynne, the whych myȝth not come to blysse til cristes passiou{n}?

Credo.

Beleuyst thow þat he ros vp fro deth on estir day, and dwellede her til ascensiou{n} day, to preue ve2rily his resurrecciou{n}?

Credo.

Beleuyst þow that thanne he styed vp in-to heuene be his myȝth, god and man, and there is euyn in maieste w{i}t{h} his fader?

Credo.

Beleuyst þow þat he schal come at the day of dome to deme þe gode and þe badde?

Credo.

Beleuyst þow in þe holi gost, the thridde p{er}sone in trinite, and in holy cherche, and þat þe sacrementis of holy chirche aren ordeyned in remissiou{n} of ma{n}nys senne?

Credo.

Beleuyst þow in þe sacrament of þe auter, þat is cristes bodi whiche was born of marie, wiche criste lefte her among vs as for þe most p{re}ciows iewel, whan he schulde departe be deth from his disciples?

aMy dere sone or douȝtere in god, hyt semith þat þou hyest þe faste in þe wey fro þis life to godward, þere þou schalt cee al þy forme-fadris, apostelis, martiris, confessouris and uirgynis, & all men and bwo{m}men þat bene saued; and fore gladnes of suche felauschip be þou of good co{n}fort in god, þynke how þow muste after þis lyfe leye a stone in þe waỻ of þe cite of heuene, sclely witħ outen noise or strife, and þ{er}fore, or þou wende out of þis world, þou polisscħ þi stoon and make it redi, ȝif þou wolt not þere be lettid.

¶ Þis stoon is þy soule, whiche þou muste make stronge þorougħ right bileue; and faire þ{o}u muste hit clense, þorougħ hope of goddis m{er}ci and p{er}fite charite, the whiche coueritħ þe multitude of synnes. þe noyse ..——
cHow a man schulde conforte annothere, þ{a}t he gruche nought when he is seke.

Broþer or sisterʼ, louyst þou god þi lorde? he or sche, ȝif þey may speke, woỻ sey ‘ȝhee,’ dor p{er}auenture, ȝif þey may not speke, þenke ‘ȝhee.’

¶ þan þus, ȝif þou lovest god....

eȜiffe detħ goo faste on a man, Speke to hym thesse wordis.

Broþer or Systere in god, ȝif þou see or....

fNow when þou hast seyde aỻ þis, or ȝif þow maist not seye aỻ for hastynge of detħ, beginne her{e} or his mynde go from hy{m}.

Broþer or sister, art þou glad þ{a}t þow schalt dye in cristyn feythe?

R’. ȝhe.

knowlechist þou ...

[Rest missing.]

Credo.

Beleuest þow þat alle tho þat been in good lif schul haue part of alle the3 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?

4Credo.

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.

5Now, 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.

They are issued herewith, but are not made one of the Society’s publications, because we cannot undertake to reproduce them when the present copies run out. Every Member will decide for himself whether he puts these Facsimiles into one of the Society’s Texts, or keeps them apart in his picture-album.

All will join in thanking Mr. Littlehales for his pretty and welcome gift.

F. J. Furnivall.

1 August, 1903.

Transcriber’s Note: Click the images for larger versions.

A page of a fifteenth century Prymer, (the common medieval layfolks prayer book) From the Brit. Mus. MS. 2 A. XVIII.

Full size.

A page of a fifteenth century Prymer, Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 2915. This is the common picture before the Office for the Dead.

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Early English Text Society.
Extra Series, XC.

English Fragments
from
Latin Medieval Service-Books

WITH
TWO COLOURED FACSIMILES
FROM
Medieval Prymers.

EDITED BY
HENRY LITTLEHALES.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
By KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., LIMITED,
DRYDEN HOUSE, 43, GERRARD STREET, SOHO, W.
1903

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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!

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 22,9378 and 25,5949) 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.

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.

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.

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. 16s.

1864

2. Arthur, ab. 1440, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 4s.

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3. Lauder on the Dewtie of Kyngis, &c., 1556, ed. F. Hall, D.C.L. 4s.

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4. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, ab. 1360, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10s.

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5. Hume’s Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, ab. 1617, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 4s.

1865

6. Lancelot of the Laik, ab. 1500, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 8s.

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7. Genesis & Exodus, ab. 1250, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 8s.

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8. Morte Arthure, ab. 1440, ed. E. Brock. 7s.

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9. Thynne on Speght’s ed. of Chaucer, A.D. 1599, ed. Dr. G. Kingsley and Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 10s.

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10. Merlin, ab. 1440, Part I., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 2s. 6d.

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11. Lyndesay’s Monarche, &c., 1552, Part I., ed. J. Small, M.A. 3s.

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12. Wright’s Chaste Wife, ab. 1462, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 1s.

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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. 5s.

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15. Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 7s. 6d.

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16. The Book of Quinte Essence, ab. 1460-70, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1s.

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17. Parallel Extracts from 45 MSS. of Piers the Plowman, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 1s.

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18. Hali Meidenhad, ab. 1200, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne, re-edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. [At Press.

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19. Lyndesay’s Monarche, &c., Part II., ed. J. Small, M.A. 3s. 6d.

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20. Hampole’s English Prose Treatises, ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 1s. [Out of print.

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21. Merlin, Part II., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 4s.

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22. Partenay or Lusignen, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat.

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23. Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10s. 6d.

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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. 1s.

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26. Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse, from R. Thornton’s MS., ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 2s. [Out of print.

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27. Levins’s Manipulus Vocabulorum, a ryming Dictionary, 1570, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 12s.

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28. William’s Vision of Piers the Plowman, 1362 A.D.; Text A, Part I., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 6s.

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29. Old English Homilies (ab. 1220-30 A.D.). Series I, Part I. Edited by Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 7s.

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30. Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 2s.

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31. Myrc’s Duties of a Parish Priest, in Verse, ab. 1420 A.D., ed. E. Peacock. 4s.

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. 12s.

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33. The Knight de la Tour Landry, ab. 1440 A.D. A Book for Daughters, ed. T. Wright, M.A. [Out of print.

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34. Old English Homilies (before 1300 A.D.). Series I, Part II., ed. R. Morris, LL.D. 8s.

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35. Lyndesay’s Works, Part III.: The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, ed. F. Hall. 2s.

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36. Merlin, Part III. Ed. H. B. Wheatley. On Arthurian Localities, by J. S. Stuart Glennie. 12s.

1869

37. Sir David Lyndesay’s Works, Part IV., Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits. ed. F. Hall, D.C.L. 4s.

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38. William’s Vision of Piers the Plowman, Part II. Text B. Ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s. 6d.

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39. Alliterative Romance of the Destruction of Troy. Ed. D. Donaldson & G. A. Panton. Pt. I. 10s. 6d.

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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. 21s.

1870

41. William Lauder’s Minor Poems. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 3s.

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42. Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris, Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. Ed. J. R. Lumby, M.A. 2s.

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43. Ratis Raving, and other Moral and Religious Pieces. Ed. J. R. Lumby, M.A.

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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. 5s.

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. 10s.

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46. Legends of the Holy Rood, Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10s.

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47. Sir David Lyndesay’s Works, Part V., ed. Dr. J. A. H. Murray. 3s.

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48. The Times’ Whistle, and other Poems, by R. C., 1616; ed. by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 6s.

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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. 10s.

1872

50. King Alfred’s West-Saxon Version of Gregory’s Pastoral Care, ed. H. Sweet, M.A. Part II. 10s.

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51. The Life of St Juliana, 2 versions, A.D. 1230, with translations; ed. T. O. Cockayne & E. Brock. 2s.

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52. Palladius on Husbondrie, englisht (ab. 1420 A.D.), ed. Rev. Barton Lodge, M.A. Part I. 10s.

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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. 8s.

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. 18s.

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55. Generydes, a Romance, ab. 1440 A.D., ed. W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Part I. 3s.

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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. 10s. 6d.

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. 10s. 6d.

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58. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. Part I. 8s.

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59. The “Cursor Mundi,” in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part II. 15s.

1875

60. Meditacyuns on the Soper of our Lorde (by Robert of Brunne), edited by J. M. Cowper. 2s. 6d.

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61. The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, from 5 MSS.; ed. Dr. J. A. H. Murray. 10s. 6d.

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62. The “Cursor Mundi,” in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part III. 15s.

1876

63. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part II. 7s.

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64. Francis Thynne’s Embleames and Epigrams, A.D. 1600, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 7s.

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65. Be Domes Dæge (Bede’s De Die Judicii), &c., ed. J. R. Lumby, B.D. 2s.

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66. The “Cursor Mundi,” in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part IV., with 2 autotypes. 10s.

1877

67. Notes on Piers Plowman, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. Part I. 21s.

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68. The “Cursor Mundi,” in 4 Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part V. 25s.

1878

69. Adam Davie’s 5 Dreams about Edward II., &c., ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 5s.

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70. Generydes, a Romance, ed. W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Part II. 4s.

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71. The Lay Folks Mass-Book, four texts, ed. Rev. Canon Simmons. 25s.

1879

72. Palladius on Husbondrie, englisht (ab. 1420 A.D.). Part II. Ed. S. J. Herrtage, B.A. 15s.

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73. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part III. 10s.

1880

74. English Works of Wyclif, hitherto unprinted, ed. F. D. Matthew, Esq. 20s.

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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. 20s.

1881

76. Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints, in MS. Cott. Jul. E 7., ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A. Part I. 10s.

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77. Beowulf, the unique MS. autotyped and transliterated, edited by Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. 25s.

1882

78. The Fifty Earliest English Wills, in the Court of Probate, 1387-1439, ed. by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 7s.

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79. King Alfred’s Orosius, from Lord Tollemache’s 9th century MS., Part I, ed. H. Sweet, M.A. 13s.

1883

79 b. The Epinal Glossary, 8th cent., ed. J. H. Hessels, M.A. 15s. [Preparing.

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80. The Early-English Life of St. Katherine and its Latin Original, ed. Dr. Einenkel. 12s.

1884

81. Piers Plowman: Notes, Glossary, &c. Part IV, completing the work, ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A. 18s.

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82. Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7., ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A., LL.D. Part II. 12s.

1885

83. The Oldest English Texts, Charters, &c., ed. H. Sweet, M.A. 20s.

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84. Additional Analogs to ‘The Wright’s Chaste Wife,’ No. 12, by W. A. Clouston. 1s.

1886

85. The Three Kings of Cologne. 2 English Texts, and 1 Latin, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 17s.

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86. Prose Lives of Women Saints, ab. 1610 A.D., ed. from the unique MS. by Dr. C. Horstmann. 12s.

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87. Early English Verse Lives of Saints (earliest version), Laud MS. 108, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 20s.

1887

88. Hy. Bradshaw’s life of St. Werburghe (Pynson, 1521), ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 10s.

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89. Vices and Virtues, from the unique MS., ab. 1200 A.D., ed. Dr. F. Holthausen. Part I. 8s.

1888

90. Anglo-Saxon and Latin Rule of St. Benet, interlinear Glosses, ed. Dr. H. Logeman. 12s.

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91. Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books, ab. 1430-1450, edited by Mr. T. Austin. 10s.

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92. Eadwine’s Canterbury Psalter, from the Trin. Cambr. MS., ab. 1150 A.D., ed. F. Harsley, B.A. Pt. I. 12s.

1889

93. Defensor’s Liber Scintillarum, edited from the MSS. by Ernest Rhodes, B.A. 12s.

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94. Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7, Part III., ed. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 12s.

1890

95. The Old-English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, re-ed. by Dr. Thomas Miller. Part I, § 1. 18s.

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96. The Old-English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, re-ed. by Dr. Thomas Miller. Pt. I, § 2. 15s.

1891

97. The Earliest English Prose Psalter, edited from its 2 MSS. by Dr. K. D. Buelbring. Part I. 15s.

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98. Minor Poems of the Vernon MS., Part I., ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 20s.

1892

99. Cursor Mundi. Part VI. Preface, Notes, and Glossary, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10s.

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100. Capgrave’s Life of St. Katharine, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann, with Forewords by Dr. Furnivall. 20s.

1893

101. Cursor Mundi. Part VII. Essay on the MSS., their Dialects, &c., by Dr. H. Hupe. 10s.

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102. Lanfranc’s Cirurgie, ab. 1400 A.D., ed. Dr. R. von Fleischhacker. Part I. 20s.

1894

103. The Legend of the Cross, from a 12th century MS., &c., ed. Prof. A. S. Napier, M.A., Ph.D. 7s. 6d.

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104. The Exeter Book (Anglo-Saxon Poems), re-edited from the unique MS. by I. Gollancz, M.A. Part I. 20s.

1895

105. The Prymer or Lay-Folks’ Prayer-Book, Camb. Univ. MS., ab. 1420, ed. Henry Littlehales. Part I. 10s.

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106. R. Misyn’s Fire of Love and Mending of Life (Hampole), 1434, 1435, ed. Rev. R. Harvey, M.A. 15s.

1896

107. The English Conquest of Ireland, A.D. 1166-1185, 2 Texts, 1425, 1440, Pt. I., ed. Dr. Furnivall. 15s.

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108. Child-Marriages and -Divorces, Trothplights, &c. Chester Depositions, 1561-6, ed. Dr. Furnivall. 15s.

1897

109. The Prymer or Lay-Folks’ Prayer-Book, ab. 1420, ed. Henry Littlehales. Part II. 10s.

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110. The Old-English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, ed. Dr. T. Miller. Part II, § 1. 15s.

1898

111. The Old-English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, ed. Dr. T. Miller. Part II, § 2. 15s.

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112. Merlin, Part IV: Outlines of the Legend of Merlin, by Prof. W. E. Mead, Ph.D. 15s.

1899

113. Queen Elizabeth’s Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch &c. &c., ed. Miss C. Pemberton. 15s.

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114. Aelfric’s Metrical lives of Saints, Part IV and last, ed. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 10s.

1900

115. Jacob’s Well, edited from the unique Salisbury Cathedral MS. by Dr. A. Brandeis. Part I. 10s.

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116. An Old-English Martyrology, re-edited by Dr. G. Herzfeld. 10s.

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117. Minor Poems of the Vernon MS., edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Part II. 15s.

1901

118. The Lay Folks’ Catechism, ed. by Canon Simmons and Rev. H. E. Nolloth, M.A. 5s.

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119. Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne (1303), and its French original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. I. 10s.

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120. The Rule of St. Benet, in Northern Prose and Verse, & Caxton’s Summary, ed. Dr. E. A. Kock. 15s.

1902

121. The Laud MS. Troy-Book, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595, by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part I. 15s.

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122. The Laud MS. Troy-Book, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595, by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part II. 20s.

1903

123. Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne (1303), and its French original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. II. 10s.

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124. Twenty-six Political and other Poems from Digby MS. 102 &c., ed. by Dr. J. Kail. Part I. 10s.

1904

125. Medieval Records of a London City Church, ed. Henry Littlehales. Pt. I. 20s.

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126. An Alphabet of Tales, in Northern English from Latin, ed. Mrs. M. M. Banks. Part I. 10s.

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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. 13s.

1867

II. Early English Pronunciation with especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part I. 10s.

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III. Caxton’s Book of Curtesye, in Three Versions. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 5s.

1868

IV. Havelok the Dane. Re-edited by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s.

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V. Chaucer’s Boethius. Edited from the two best MSS. by Rev. Dr. R. Morris 12s.

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VI. Chevelere Assigne. Re-edited from the unique MS. by Lord Aldenham, M.A. 3s.

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VII. Early English Pronunciation, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part II. 10s.

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. 13s.

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IX. Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caveat, &c. ed. E. Viles & F. J. Furnivall. 7s. 6d.

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X. Andrew Boorde’s Introduction of Knowledge, 1547, Dyetary of Helth, 1542, Barnes in Defence of the Berde, 1542-3. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 18s.

1870

XI. Barbour’s Bruce, Part I. Ed. from MSS. and editions, by Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 12s.

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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. 12s. (Part I. is No. XXXII, 1878, 8s.)

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. 6s.

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XIV. Early English Pronunciation, by A. J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part III. 10s.

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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. 12s.

1872

XVI. Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe. Ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 6s.

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XVII. The Complaynt of Scotlande, 1549 A.D., with 4 Tracts (1542-48), ed. Dr. Murray. Part I. 10s.

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XVIII. The Complaynt of Scotlande, 1549 A.D., ed. Dr. Murray. Part II. 8s.

1873

XIX. Oure Ladyes Myroure, A.D. 1530, ed. Rev. J. H. Blunt, M.A. 24s.

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XX. Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail (ab. 1450 A.D.), ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. Part I. 8s.

1874

XXI. Barbour’s Bruce, Part II., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 4s.

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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. 9s.

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XXIII. Early English Pronunciation, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part IV. 10s.

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XXIV. Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. Part II. 10s.

1875

XXV. Guy of Warwick, 15th-century Version, ed. Prof. Zupitza. Part I. 20s.

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XXVI. Guy of Warwick, 15th-century Version, ed. Prof. Zupitza. Part II. 14s.

1876

XXVII. Bp. Fisher’s English Works (died 1535), ed. by Prof. J. E. B. Mayor. Part I, the Text. 16s.

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XXVIII. Lovelich’s Holy Grail, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. Part III. 10s.

1877

XXIX. Barbour’s Bruce. Part III., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 21s.

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XXX. Lovelich’s Holy Grail, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. Part IV. 15s.

1878

XXXI. The Alliterative Romance of Alexander and Dindimus, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 6s.

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XXXII. Starkey’s “England in Henry VIII’s time.” Pt. I. Starkey’s Life and Letters, ed. S. J. Herrtage. 8s.

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XXXIII. Gesta Romanorum (englisht ab. 1440), ed. S. J. Herrtage, B.A. 15s.

1879

XXXIV. The Charlemagne Romances:—1. Sir Ferumbras, from Ashm. MS. 33, ed. S. J. Herrtage. 15s.

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XXXV. Charlemagne Romances:—2. The Sege off Melayne, Sir Otuell, &c., ed. S. J. Herrtage. 12s.

1880

XXXVI. Charlemagne Romances:—3. Lyf of Charles the Grete, Pt. I., ed. S. J. Herrtage. 16s.

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XXXVII. Charlemagne Romances:—4. Lyf of Charles the Grete, Pt. II., ed. S. J. Herrtage. 15s.

1881

XXXVIII. Charlemagne Romances:—5. The Sowdone of Babylone, ed. Dr. Hausknecht. 15s.

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XXXIX. Charlemagne Romances:—6. Rauf Colyear, Roland, Otuel, &c., ed. S. J. Herrtage, B.A. 15s.

1882

XL. Charlemagne Romances:—7. Huon of Burdeux, by Lord Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Part I. 15s.

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XLI. Charlemagne Romances:—8. Huon of Burdeux, by Lord Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Pt. II. 15s.

1883

XLII. Guy of Warwick: 2 texts (Auchinleck MS. and Caius MS.), ed. Prof. Zupitza. Part I. 15s.

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XLIII. Charlemagne Romances:—9. Huon of Burdeux, by Lord Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Pt. III. 15s.

1884

XLIV. Charlemagne Romances:—10. The Four Sons of Aymon, ed. Miss Octavia Richardson. Pt. I. 15s.

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XLV. Charlemagne Romances:—11. The Four Sons of Aymon, ed. Miss O. Richardson. Pt. II. 20s.

1885

XLVI. Sir Bevis of Hamton, from the Auchinleck and other MSS., ed. Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D. Part I. 10s.

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XLVII. The Wars of Alexander, ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 20s.

1886

XLVIII. Sir Bevis of Hamton, ed. Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D. Part II. 10s.

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XLIX. Guy of Warwick, 2 texts (Auchinleck and Caius MSS.), Pt. II., ed. Prof. J. Zupitza, Ph.D. 15s.

1887

L. Charlemagne Romances:—12. Huon of Burdeux, by Lord Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Part IV. 5s.

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LI. Torrent of Portyngale, from the unique MS. in the Chetham Library, ed. E. Adam, Ph.D. 10s.

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LII. Bullein’s Dialogue against the Feuer Pestilence, 1578 (ed. 1, 1564). Ed. M. & A. H. Bullen. 10s.

1888

LIII. Vicary’s Anatomie of the Body of Man, 1548, ed. 1577, ed. F. J. & Percy Furnivall. Part I. 15s.

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LIV. Caxton’s Englishing of Alain Chartier’s Curial, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall & Prof. P. Meyer. 5s.

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LV. Barbour’s Bruce, ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. Part IV. 5s.

1889

LVI. Early English Pronunciation, by A. J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Pt. V., the present English Dialects. 25s.

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LVII. Caxton’s Eneydos, A.D. 1490, coll. with its French, ed. M. T. Culley, M.A. & Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 13s.

1890

LVIII. Caxton’s Blanchardyn & Eglantine, c. 1489, extracts from ed. 1595, & French, ed. Dr. L. Kellner. 17s.

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LIX. Guy of Warwick, 2 texts (Auchinleck and Caius MSS.), Part III., ed. Prof. J. Zupitza, Ph.D. 15s.

1891

LX. Lydgate’s Temple of Glass, re-edited from the MSS. by Dr. J. Schick. 15s.

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LXI. Hoccleve’s Minor Poems, I., from the Phillipps and Durham MSS., ed. F. J. Furnivall, Ph.D. 15s.

1892

LXII. The Chester Plays, re-edited from the MSS. by the late Dr. Hermann Deimling. Part I. 15s.

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LXIII. Thomas a Kempis’s De Imitatione Christi, englisht ab. 1440, & 1502, ed. Prof. J. K. Ingram. 15s.

1893

LXIV. Caxton’s Godfrey of Boloyne, or Last Siege of Jerusalem, 1481, ed. Dr. Mary N. Colvin. 15s.

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LXV. Sir Bevis of Hamton, ed. Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D. Part III. 15s.

1894

LXVI. Lydgate’s and Burgh’s Secrees of Philisoffres, ab. 1445-50, ed. R. Steele, B.A. 15s.

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LXVII. The Three Kings’ Sons, a Romance, ab. 1500, Part I., the Text, ed. Dr. Furnivall. 10s.

1895

LXVIII. Melusine, the prose Romance, ab. 1500, Part I, the Text, ed. A. K. Donald. 20s.

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LXIX. Lydgate’s Assembly of the Gods, ed. Prof. Oscar L. Triggs, M.A., Ph.D. 15s.

1896

LXX. The Digby Plays, edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 15s.

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LXXI. The Towneley Plays, ed. Geo. England and A. W. Pollard, M.A. 15s.

1897

LXXII. Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes, 1411-12, and 14 Poems, edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 15s.

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LXXIII. Hoccleve’s Minor Poems, II., from the Ashburnham MS., ed. I. Gollancz, M.A. [At Press.

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LXXIV. Secreta Secretorum, 3 prose Englishings, by Jas. Yonge, 1428, ed. R. Steele, B.A. Part I. 20s.

1898

LXXV. Speculum Guidonis de Warwyk, edited by Miss G. L. Morrill, M.A., Ph.D. 10s.

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LXXVI. George Ashby’s Poems, &c., ed. Miss Mary Bateson. 15s.

1899

LXXVII. Lydgate’s DeGuilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, 1426, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Part I. 10s.

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LXXVIII. The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene, by T. Robinson, c. 1620, ed. Dr. H. O. Sommer. 5s.

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LXXIX. Caxton’s Dialogues, English and French, c. 1483, ed. Henry Bradley, M.A. 10s.

1900

LXXX. Lydgate’s Two Nightingale Poems, ed. Dr. Otto Glauning. 5s.

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LXXXI. Gower’s Confessio Amantis, edited by G. C. Macaulay, M.A. Vol. I. 15s.

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LXXXII. Gower’s Confessio Amantis, edited by G. C. Macaulay, M.A. Vol. II. 15s.

1901

LXXXIII. Lydgate’s DeGuilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, 1426, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Pt. II. 10s.

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LXXXIV. Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuality, edited by Dr. E. Sieper. Part I. 5s.

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LXXXV. Alexander Scott’s Poems, 1568, from the unique Edinburgh MS., ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. 10s.

1902

LXXXVI. William of Shoreham’s Poems, re-ed. from the unique MS. by Dr. M. Konrath. Part I. 10s.

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LXXXVII. Two Coventry Corpus-Christi Plays, re-edited by Hardin Craig, M.A. 10s. [At Press.

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LXXXVIII. Le Morte Arthur, re-edited from the Harleian MS. 2252 by Prof. Bruce, Ph.D. 15s.

1903

LXXXIX. Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuality, edited by Dr. E. Sieper. Part II. 15s.

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XC. English Fragments from Latin Medieval Service-Books, ed. by Hy. Littlehales. 5s.

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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.

The Subscription to the Society, which constitutes membership, is £1 1s. a year for the Original Series, and £1 1s. for the Extra Series, due in advance on the 1st of January, and should be paid by Cheque, Postal Order or Money-Order, crost ‘Union Bank of London,’ to the Hon. Secretary, W. A. Dalziel, Esq., 67, Victoria Road, Finsbury Park, London, N. Members who want their Texts posted to them must add to their prepaid Subscriptions 1s. for the Original Series, and 1s. for the Extra Series, yearly. The Society’s Texts are also sold separately at the prices put after them in the Lists; but Members can get back-Texts 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.

The Founder and Director of the E. E. T. Soc. is Dr. F. J. Furnivall, 3, St. George’s Sq., Primrose Hill, London, N.W. Its Hon. Sec. is W. A. Dalziel, Esq., 67, Victoria Road, Finsbury Park, London, N. The Subscription to the Society is 21s. a year for the Original Series, and 21s. for the Extra Series of re-editions.

Early English Text Society.

ORIGINAL SERIES.

The Publications for 1902 (one guinea) are:—

120. The Rule of St. Benet: Two Early English Versions and Caxton’s Abstract, ed. Dr. E. A. Kock. 15s.

121. The Laud Troy-Book, edited from the unique MS. Laud 595, by Dr. J. Ernst Wülfing. Part I. 15s.

The Publications for 1903 are:—

122. The Laud Troy-Book, edited from the unique MS. Laud 595, by Dr. J. Ernst Wülfing. Part II. 20s.

123. Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne (1303), and its French original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. II. 10s.

The Publications for 1904 are:—

124. Twenty-six Political and other Poems from Digby MS. 102, &c., edited by Dr. J. Kail. Part I. 10s.

125. The Medieval Records of a London City Church (St. Mary-at-Hill), edited by Hy. Littlehales. Pt. I. 10s.

126. An Alphabet of Tales, in Northern English from Latin, ed. Mrs. M. M. Banks. Part I. 10s.

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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 Press.

The Laud Troy-Book, edited from the unique MS. Laud 595, by Dr. J. Ernst Wülfing. Part III.

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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LXXXV. Alexander Scott’s Poems, 1568, from the unique Edinburgh MS., ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. 10s.

LXXXVI. William of Shoreham’s Poems, re-edited by Dr. M. Konrath. Part I. 10s.

LXXXVII. Two Coventry Corpus-Christi Plays, re-edited by Hardin Craig, M.A. 10s. [At Press.

The Publications for 1903 will probably be:—

LXXXVIII. Le Morte Arthur, in 8-line stanzas, re-edited from Harl. MS. 2252, by Prof. Bruce, Ph.D. 10s.

LXXXIX. Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuality, edited by Ernst Sieper, Ph.D. Part II. 15s.

XC. English Fragments from Latin Medieval Service-Books, ed. by Hy. Littlehales. 5s.

The Publications for 1904 and 1905 will be chosen from:—

William of Shoreham’s Poems, re-edited by Dr. M. Konrath. Part II. [At Press.

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. K. Gonner. [Text done.

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, Ph.D.

Extracts from the Rochester Diocesan Registers, ed. Hy. Littlehales, Esq.

The Owl and Nightingale, 2 Texts parallel, ed. G. F. H. Sykes, Esq. [At Press.

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.

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Table of Contents

- English Fragments from Latin Medieval Service-Books.

- NOTE.

- From the Service for Baptism.

- FOOTNOTES:

- From the Marriage Service.

- FOOTNOTES:

- From the Office for the Visitation of the Sick.

- FOOTNOTES:

- The General Sentence.

- Early English Text Society.

- ORIGINAL SERIES.

- EXTRA SERIES.

- EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY TEXTS PREPARING.

- ORIGINAL SERIES.

- EXTRA SERIES.

- MSS. and Books that Editors are wanted for.

- ORIGINAL SERIES.

- EXTRA SERIES.

- Early English Text Society.

- ORIGINAL SERIES.

- EXTRA SERIES.

- Footnotes: EETS Texts

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