Reprints, 1864, Original Series, No. 3. ANE ning has S. owner Cleopas COMPENDIOVS AND BREVE TRACTATFon of his CONCERNYNG THE s No. 132 Leet Book, Office and Dewtie of Kyngis, SPIRITVALL PASTORIS, AND TEMPORALL IVGIS. LAITLIE COMPYLIT BE William Lauder, FOR THE FAITHFVLL INSTRVCTIOVN OF KYNGIS AND PRENCIS. Diligite Iusticiam qui iudicatis terram. EDITED BY FITZEDWARD HALL, M.A., HON. D.C.L. Oxon. [Second Edition, revised, 1869.] PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY BY KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., LTD., AND BY HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN CORNER, E. C., AND IN NEW YORK. 1864. [Reprinted 1910.] Price Four Shillings. Committee of Management: Director: DR. FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A. Treasurer: HENRY B. WHEATLEY, Esq. . A. DALZIEL, Esq., 67 VICTORIA ROAD, FINSBURY PARK, N. REW CLARK, M.A. GOLLANCZ, D.LIT. .1 TLEHALES, Esq. ALFRED W. POLLARD, M.A. PROF. J. SCHICK, PH.D. REV. PROF. WALTER W. SKEAT, LITT.D. DR. HENRY SWEET. M.A. V. PROF. J. E. B. 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The American owner the unique MS. of the Works of John Metham-whose Romance of Amoryus and Cleopas as sketcht by Dr. Furnivall in his new edition of Political, Religious and Love Poems, b. 15 in the Society's Original Series has promist to give the Society an edition of his S. prepared by Dr. Hardin Craig of Princeton, and it will be issued next year as No. 132 the Original Series. The giver hopes that his example may be followd by other folk, as le support hitherto given to the Society is so far below that which it deserves. The Original Series Texts for 1908 were, No. 135, Part II of the Coventry Leet Book, pied and edited by Miss M. Dormer Harris; No. 136, Part II of Th ?r The hronicles of England, edited by Dr. F. Brie, showing the name CHAUCER in 110f attle Abbey; and No. 135b, Extra Issue, an off-print-by the kind leave of the Synt the Cambridge University Press, the Editors of the Cambridge History of English iterature, and the author,-of Prof. J. M. Manly's chapter on Piers the Plowman and its quence (Camb. Hist. ii. 1-42), urging the fivefold authorship of the Vision. As this was contested by Dr. J. J. Jusserand, his article in Modern Philology for June 09 is issued by the Society in 1910, as Extra Issue, No. 139 b, with Prof. Manly's Answer it, and Dr. Jusserand's Rejoinder-each presented by its writer,-as well as the important odern Language Review article on the subject by Mr. R. W. Chambers, No. 139, c, d, e. r. Hy. Bradley's Answer to Mr. Chambers will be issued later. The Original Series Texts for 1909 were No. 137, the Twelfi. tury Homilies in $. Bodley 343, edited by Prof. A. O. Belfour, M.A., Part I, the Text; and No. 138, the wentry Leet Book, Part III, edited by Miss M. Dormer Harris, completing the original tt of the Book. The Original Series Texts for 1910 will probably be No. 139, John Arderne's Treatises Fistula in Ano, &c., edited by D'Arcy Power, M.D., englisht about 1425 from the in of about 1380 A.D.; No. 140, Capgrave's Lives of St. Augustine and St. Gilbert of wingham, A.D. 1451, edited by J. J. Munro; perhaps Pt. II of Prof. Belfour's Twelfthtry Homilies; The Coventry Leet Book, Part IV, containing its miscellaneous later es, with an Introduction, Notes, Indexes, &c., by Miss Dormer Harris; or Earth Earth, all the known texts, edited by Dr. Hilda Murray. le Texts for future years will be chosen from Part III of The Brut; The Wars of under the Great, edited from the Thornton MS. in the Northern dialect, by J. S. WestM.A., and L. A. Magnus, LI.B.; Part III of the Alphabet of Tales, edited by Mrs. M. ks; Part III of the English Register of Godstow Nunnery, and Part II of the English r of Oseney Abbey, edited by the Rev. Dr. Andrew Clark. Later Texts will be Part Robert of Brunne's Handlyng Synne, edited by Dr. Furnivall, with a Glossary of Wm. Wadington's French words in his Manuel des Pechiez, and comments on them, by Mr. ickson Brown; Part II of the Exeter Book-Anglo-Saxon Poems from the unique MS. in xeter Cathedral-re-edited by Israel Gollancz, M.A.; Part II of Prof. Dr. Holthausen's ices and Virtues; Part II of Jacob's Well, edited by Dr. Brandeis; the Alliterative Siege of rusalem, edited by the late Prof. Dr. E. Kölbing and Prof. Dr. Kaluza; an Introduction d Glossary to the Minor Poems of the Vernon MS. by H. Hartley, M. A.; Alain Chartier's. adrilogue, edited from the unique MS. Univ. Coll. Oxford No. 85, by Prof. J. W. H. Atkins; d the Early Verse and Prose in the Harleian MS. 2253, re-edited by Dr. Hilda Murray. Whon Wordsworth of Marlborough has given the Society a copy of the Leofric Canonical le, Latin and Anglo-Saxon, Parker MS. 191, C. C. C. Cambridge, and Prof. Napier will et it, with a fragment of the englisht Capitula of Bp Theodulf: it is now at press. The Extra Series Texts for 1909 were, No. CIV, The Non-Cycle Mystery Plays, reited by O. Waterhouse, M. A.; and No. CV, The Tale of Beryn, with a Prologue of the merry venture of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury, printed from a cast of the Chaucer ety's plates. As the Society hadn't money enough to pay for its Troy Book, Part II, in it had to take that out of its income of 1909; and itwas therefore obliged to borrow he Chaucer Society the amusing Tale of Beryn, edited by Dr. Furnivall and the late Boswell-Stone. he Extra Series Texts for 1910 will be No. CVI, Lydgate's Troy Book, Part III, ing Books IV and V, completing the text, edited by Hy. Bergen, Ph.D.; and No. Aydgate's Minor Poems, Part I, Religious Poems, with the Lydgate Canon, edited by acCracken, Ph.D. re Extra Series Texts will be Lydgate's Minor Poems, Part II, Secular Poems, r. H. N. MacCracken; Lydgate's Troy Book, Part IV, edited by Dr. Hy. Bergen ; bina, re-edited by Prof. Delcourt; Lovelich's Romance of Merlin, re-edited by Prof. ek, Part II; Miss Eleanor Plumer's re-edition of Sir Gowther and Sir Percyvalle ; B. Locock's re-edition of Hylton's Ladder of Perfection; Miss Warren's two-text The Dance of Death from the Ellesmere and other MSS.; The Owl and Nightin * 4 Texts preparing: The Extra-Series Texts for 1910, &c. Deguilleville. gale, two parallel Texts, edited by Mr. G. F. H. Sykes; Dr. Erbe's re-edition of Mirk's Festial, Part II; Dr. M. Konrath's re-edition of William of Shoreham's Poems, Part II; Prof. Erdmann's re-edition of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes (issued also by the Chaucer Society); Prof. Israel Gollancz's re-edition of two Alliterative Poems, Winner and Waster, &c., about 1360; Dr. Norman Moore's re-edition of The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, from the unique MS. about 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 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). Later Texts for the Extra Series will include 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; 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 Mr. Hans Koestner. (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 over 1000 members, while the Early English Text Society has not 300! 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. 4 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: "The Pilgrime or the Pil grimage 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 Pèlerinage into a prose Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. 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 Pèlerinage de l'Homme, A.D. 1355 or -6, was englisht in verse by Lydgate in 1426, and, thanks to the diligence of the old Elizabethan tailor and manuscript-lover, John Stowe, a complete text of Lydgate's poem has been edited for the Society by Dr. Furnivall. The British Museum French MSS. (Harleian 4399,7 and Additional 22,9378 and 25,5949) are all of the First Version. 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. 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. 615,1 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. Čaxton leaves out the earlier englisher's interesting Epilog in the Egerton MS. This prose englishing of the Sowle has been copied and will be edited for the Society by Mr. Hans Koestner. Of the Pilgrimage of Jesus, no englishing is known. 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. 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. 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 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 medieval Cyclopædia of Science, &c., will be the Society's next big undertaking. An Editor for it is wanted. 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 Elfric's prose, ,2 Dr. Morris's of the Blickling Homilies, and Prof. Skeat's of Elfric'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, Hulme, Bryce, Craig, Drs. Bergen, MacCracken, &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. 1 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. 2 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 Elfric Society, are still in stock. Of the Vercelli Homilies, the Society has bought the copy made by Prof. G. Lattanzi. |