Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/oldenglishversio01bede O .Toronto. NOTICE. It was intended to issue the whole of Part I of this Bedels Ecclesiastical History for the Original Series of 1890, but the Subscriptions of Members have come in so slowly that only half the Part (§1) can be given this year. Section 2 is ready, and can be sent out at once to Members who pay their 1891 Subscription in advance. The second Original Series Text for 1891 will be Dr. K. D. Biilbring's edition of the Earliest English Prose Psalter from its two MSS, It is all finisht except the revision of the Preface, For the Extra Series of 1891, Part III of Professor Zupitza's edition of Guy of Warwick has been long ready, and Dr. J. Schick's edition of Lydgate's Temple ofGlass is nearly done. Nov. 26, 1890. — ^ ADVANCE SUBSCRIPTIONS NEEDED. Besides the Texts named as at press on p. 4 of the Cover of the Early English Text Society's last books, the following Texts are also atpress or preparing for the Society : OKIGINAL SERIES. ThomasRobinson'sLifeandDeathofMaryMagdalene,fromthe2MSS.,ab.1620a.d. {Textintype.) QueenElizabeth'sTranslations,fromBoethius,Plutarch,&c.,editedbyMissPemberton. {AtPress.) George Ashby'sPoems, 1403-75, ed. from unique Cambridge MSS,, by MissMaryBateson. {AtPress.) Vices andVirtues, from tlie uniqueMS. ab. 1200a.d., ed. Dr. F. Holthausen, PartII. {AtPress.) Anglo-SaxonPoems,from theVercelli MS., re-edited by I. Gollancz, B.A. Anglo-Saxon Glossesto Latin PrayersandHymns, editedby Dr. F. Holthausen. AnAnglo-Saxon Martyrology,editedfrom the 4 MSS. by Dr. G. Herzfeld. Aelfric's MetricalLives ofSaints, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7, Part IV, ed. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. All the Anglo-Saxon Homilies and Lives of Saints not accessible in English editions, including those of the Vercelli MS., &c., edited by Prof. NajHor, M.A., Ph.D. TheAnglo-SaxonPsalms; all the MSS. in Parallel Texts,ed. Dr. H. LogemanandF. Harsley, B.A. Beowulf,acritical Text, &c., ed. Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. Byrhtferth'sHandboc,editedby Prof. G. Hempl. EarlyEnglishHomilies,13th century, ed. Rev, Dr. R. Morris. The Rule ofSt.Benet: 5 Texts, Anglo-Saxon, Early English, Caxton, &c., ed. Rev. Dr, R, Morris. The SevenSages, in the Northern Dialect, from a Cotton MS., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. The Master ofthe Game, aBook ofHuntynge forHen.V. when Princeof Wales, ed, Mr, T.Austin. Ailred'sRule ofNuns, &c,,edited from the Vernon MS., by the Rev. Canon H. R. Bramley, M.A. Lonelich'sMerlin (verse), fromtheunique MS., ed. Miss MaryBatesonand Prof. E, Kolbing, Ph,D. Merlin(pi'ose), PartIV, containingPreface, Index, and Glossary. Edited by Dr. W. E. Mead. EarlyEnglishVerse Lives ofSaints, Standard Collection, from the Harl. MS.,ed. Dr. C, Horstmann. SupplementaryEarlyEnglishLives ofSaints, ed. Prof. C. Horstmann, Ph.D. The Early and LaterFestialls, ab. 1400 and 1440 a.d., ed. Prof. C. Horstmann, Ph.D. SelectProse Treatisesfromthe VernonMS., ed. Prof. C. Horstmann, Ph.D. EarlyEnglish Confessionals, edited by Dr. R. von Fleischhacker. A Lapidary, from Lord Tollemache'sMS., &c., edited by Dr. R, von Fleischhacker. EarlyEnglishDeeds andDocuments,fromunique MSS., ed. Dr. Lorenz Morsbach. GilbertBanastre's Poems,andotherBoccaccio englishings, editedby Prof.J. Zupitza, Ph.D. Lydgate'sLife ofSt.Edmund,ed. from the MSS. by Dr, Axel Erdmann. William ofNassington'sMirrorofLife,fromJn. ofWaldby, ed. SidneyJ. Herrtage, B.A. A Chronicle ofEnglandto 1327A.D., Northernver.se(42,000lines), ab. 1400a,d,,ed,M. L. Perrin, B.A. More EarlyEnglishWillsfromthe Probate RegistryatSomersetHouse. {Editor Wanted.) EarlyLincolnWills andDocuments fromtheBishops'Registers,&c.,editedbyDr.F.J. Furnivall. Early Canterbury Wills, edited by William Cowper, Esq, EarlyNorwichWills,editedbyWalter Rye, Esq. The Cartularies ofOseneyAbbeyand GodstowNunnery,englishtab, 1450,ed.Rev.A. Clark,M.A. TheThreeKings' Sons,editedfrom the unique Harl. MS. 326, ab. 1500 a.d., byDr. Leon Kellner. The MacroMoralities,editedfrom Mr.Gurney'sunique MS,, byAlfredW. Pollard, M.A. ATroy-Book, editedfromtheunique LaudMS, 595, by Dr. E,Wiilfing. Alliterative Prophecies, editedfrom the MSS, by Prof. Brandl, Ph.D. Miscellaneous Alliterative Poems, editedfrom the MSS. by Dr. L. Morsbach. Bird andBeastPoems, a collectionfrom MSS., editedby Dr. K. D. Buelbring, Scire Mori, &c.,from the Lichfield MS. 16, ed. Miss Rosa Elverson, LL.A., and MissFlorenceGilbert. NicholasTrivet'sFrench Chronicle,from SirA.Acland-Hood'sunique MS.,ed. Miss MaryBateson. HoursoftheVirgin,fromtheAddit. MS. 27,592 inthe British Museum,ed. G. N. Currie, M.A. (At Press.) De Guileville'sPilgrimage ofthe Sowle,editedbyG. N. Currie, M.A, StoriesforSermons,editedfromtheAddit. MS. 25,719by Dr. WieckofCoblentz. EXTBA SEKIES. Caxton'sGodfreyofBoloyne,orLastSiege ofJerusalem,1481,ed.Dr.MaryN.CoIvid. {AtPress.) The ChesterPlays, re-edited fromthe MSS. by Dr. Hermann Deibling. (AtPress.) AParallel-text ofthe 6 MSS. ofthe AncrenRiwle,ed. Prof. Dr. E, Kolbing. Trevisa's Bartholomaeus de ProprietatitusRerum,re-editedbyDr. R, von Fleischhacker. BuUein'sDialogue againstthe FeuerPestilence,1564,1573,1578. Ed. A.H.and M.Bullen. Pt, II. TheRomance ofBoctus andSidrac, editedfrom the MSS. byDr, K. D. Buelbring. TheRomanceofClariodus,re-editedby Dr, K. D. Buelbring. -- SirAmadas, re-edited fromthe MSS. by Dr. K. D. Buelbring. -^ Sir Degrevant, edited from the MSS. by Dr. K. Luick. Robert ofBrunne's Chronicle ofEngland,fromthe InnerTemple MS., ed. Dr. W. E. Mead. Maundeville'sVoiage andTravaile,re-editedfromtheCotton MS.TitusC 16,&c., byMissM, Bateson. ArthourandMerlin,re-editedfrom the unique MS. by Dr. K. D. Buelbring. GuyofWarwick, Copland's Version, editedby Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. The Sege ofJerusalem,Text A, editedfrom the MSS. by Dr, F. Kopka, f V LibetrheFCuontdtoanciMoSn.iVsesEpcascilaensiBeixS,anedc.tiNoBramratnhMooloorme,eiM.LDo.ndouiarum: the 15th century englishing in Awdelay'sPoems,re-edited fromtheunique MS. Douce 802, byDr. E.Wiilfing. William ofShoreham'sWorks, re-editedby ProfessorKonrath, Ph.D. ^v The Wyse Chyldeandotherearly Treatiseson Education, ed. G. Collar, B.A. ' ' CaxtBount'iesr,DEiscq.tes and Sayengis ofPhilotsjolp/hti"rs, 1477, with Lord Tollemache's MS. version, ed. S. J. JJec. lauu. The hrst Urigmai tteries Text tor 18D1, JJr. T. Miller s edition of the Old English Version of Bedels Ecclesiastical History of Encjland, Pt. I, § 2, is now ready. The second Text, Dr. Buelbring's edition of the *Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter,'' from its two MSS. is all done, save the revision of the Preface. For the Extra Series of 1891, the first Text Part III of Gti^ of Warwicli, ed. Prof. Zupitza, is ready ; and the second, Dr. Schick's edition of Lydgate's Temple of Glass is nearly ready. The Original Series Texts for 1892 will probably be either Professor C. Horstmann's edition of 'Capgrave's Life ofSt. Katharine, or his first volume of the Minor Poems ofthe Verno—n MS., of both of which the text is all printed, and Mr. Gollanc—z's re-edited Exeter Book Anglo-Saxon Poems from the unique MS. in Exeter Cathedral Part I, the Text, with a modern englishing, which has been long in type. Of the two concluding Parts VI and VII ofthe Cursor Mimdi, by Dr. Haenisch, Dr. Kaluza, and Dr. Hupe, the German workers'portionis allprinted,and theParts needonly forissueshort Forewordsbytheeditor, Dr.Richard Morris. PerhapsthemostimportantTextyetissuedbytheSocietyfor earlyusages — of words Lanfranc's Science of Cirurgie, englisht about 1400 a.d., and edited by Dr. R. — von Fleischhacker is nearlyall printed. Itlifts up toits earlydate notonly all the surgical and medical termswhichwe hadbefore only from the Elizabethanwriters,but such words as hoastingly, cellule, inanition, julep, &c., &c. The value of the book for Dictionary purposes cannot be too highly estimated. Some ofthe last-named Texts will form the issues for 1892 and 1893. Members are therefore askt to send Advance Subscriptions, in 1891 for 1892 and1893, inorderthatthe 1892-3 books maybeissued to themas soon as the editions are finisht. The Society's experience has shown that Editors must be taken when they are in the humour for work. All real Students and furtherers of the Society's purpose will be ready to push-on the issue of Texts. Those Members who care only a guinea a year (or can afford only that sum) for the history of our language and our nation's thought, will not be hurt by those who care more, getting their books in advance; on the contrary, they will be benefited, as each successive year's work will then be ready for issue on New Year's Day. Lists ofotherWorks in preparation for the Society are on the last page of the Cover and the first of this inside quarter-sheet; a—nd Members are askt to realise th—e fact that the Societyhas now 50 years'work onits Lists, at its present rate ofproduction, 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. For the Extra Series of 1892 &c., Mr. Donald's edition ofthe prose Romance ofMelusine, ab. 1500 A.D,, Prof. Ingram's, of the first englishing of Thomas a Kempis's DeImitatione Christi, ab. 1440-50, and Dr. Deibling's re-edition of T?ie Chester Plays from the latest and best MS., are also almost all intype. Dr. Mary N. Colvin's edition of Caxton's Godfrey of Boloyne or The Last Siege ofJerusalem, 1481, is partly printed, and the Introduction and Notesarenearly ready. ThesecondPart ofBp. Fisher'sWorks, hisLife and Letters, edited bytheRev. Ronald Bayne,is almostcomplete. It willthereforebenecessaryto ask Members for advance Subscriptions, in order that the Books for 1892 and 1893 may be issued when they are ready in 1891. During 1891 the Extra Series books for 1892 are almost sure to be ready. Mr. G. N. Currie is preparing an edition of the 15tli 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 Mr. Henry Hucks Gibbs's MS. Mr. Gibbs having gener- , ously promist to pay the extra cost of printing the French text, and engraving one ortwo ofthe illuminations in his MS. Guillaume de Deguilleville, monk of the Cistercian abbey of Chaalis, in the diocese of Senlis,wrote his firstversePelerinaigedeVHommein 1330-1whenhewas 36.^ Twenty-five (or six) years after, in 1355, he revised his poem, and issued a second version of it, and this is the onlyonethathasbeenprinted. Of theproserepresentativeofthefirstversion, 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 ; Univ. Coll. and Corpus Christi,Oxford;^ and the Laud Collection in the Bodleian, no. 740. Acopyin the Northern dialect is MS. G. 21, in St. John's Coll., Cambridge, and this is the MS. which will be edited by Mr. Currie 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 Cambiidge 1 Hewasbornabout 1295. SeeAbb6 Goujet'sBibliothequefrangaise, Vol. IX, p. 73-4.—P. M. 2 These 3 MSS. have notyetbeen collated, butarebelievedto beallofthesameversion. Umversity Library:^ "The Pilgrime or the Pilgrimage of Man in thisWorld, copied by Will. Baspoole, whose copy "was verbatim written byWalterParker, 1645,and fro??i thence transcribed byG. G-. 1649 ; and from thence byW.A. 1655." This last copy mayhave been readby, orits storyreported to, P>iinyan, andmayhavebeenthegroundwork ofhis Pilgrim's Progress. It will be edited by Mr. Curiie 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,^ Jean Gallopes a clerk of Angers, afterwards chaplain to John, Duke of — Bedford, Regent of France turned Deguilleville's first verse Felerinaige into a prose Pderinage de la vie Jiumaine} By the kindness of Mr. Hy. Hucks Gibbs, as above men- tiond, Gallopes's French text will be printed opposite the early prose northern Englishing in the Society's edition. The SecondVersion ofDeguilleville's FelerinaigedeVHomme,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 ofDeguilleville'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 two gaps, ofwhich most ofthe second can be fild up from the end ofthe other imperfect MS, Cotton, Tiberius A vii. The rest of the stopgaps must be got from the original French in Harleian 4399,* and Additional 22,937^ and 25,594^ in the British Museum. Lydgate's version will be edited in due course for the Society. Besides his first Pelerinuige de Vhomme in its two versions, Deguilleville wrote a second, **de I'ame separde du corps," and a third, " denostreseigneur lesus." Of the second,a prose Englishing of 1413, The Pilgrimage ofthe Sowle (perhaps in part by Lydgate), exists in the Egerton MS. 615,^ at Hatfield, Cambridge (Univ. Kk. 1. 7, 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 translator, 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 after that of the Man is finisht, andwill have Gallopes's French opposite it, from Mr. Gibbs's MS., as his gift to the Society. Ofthe Pilgrimage ofJesus, no englishing is known. As to the MS. Anglo-Saxon Psalters, Dr. Hy. Sweet has edited the oldest MS., the Ves- pasian, in his Oldest English Texts for the Society, and Mr. Harsley has edited the latest, 0. 1150, Eadwine's Canterbury Psalter. Dr. Logeman then raised the question of how the other MSS. should be treated and he was authorised to prepare a Parallel-Text edition ; ofthe first ten Psalms from all the MSS. This Text will be an extravagance; but as the Society has not yet committed one in Anglo-Saxon, it will indulge in one now. And every student will rejoice at having the whole Psalter material before him in the most con- venient form. Dr. Logeman and Mr. Harsley will be joint editors of the Parallel-Text. The Early English Psalters are all independent versions, and will follow separately in due course. Through the good offices of Prof. Arber, some of the books for the Early-English Ex- aminations of the University ofLondon will be chosen from the Society's publications, the Committee having undertaken to supplysuch books to students at alargereductioninprice. The profits from these saleswill be applied totheSociety'sEeprints. Five ofits 1866 Texts, andoneofits1867, stillneedreproducing. Donationsforthispurposewillbewelcome. They shouldbepaidtotheHon. Sec, Mr.W.A.Dalziel,67VictoriaEd.,TinsburyPark,London,N, Members are reminded iih&tfreshSubscribers arealways wanted, and that theCommittee canatanytime, on shortnotice, sendtopressanadditionalThousandPounds' worth ofwork. The Subscribers to the Original Series must be prepared for the issue of the whole of the Early English Liics of Saints, under the editorship of Prof. Carl Horstmann. 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 interesting 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 oftheir period. The Standard Collection of Saints' Lives in the Corpus and Ashmole MSS., the Harleian MS, 2277, &c. will repeattheLaud set, ourNo. 87, withadditions, and in right order. The 1 AnotherMS. lain thePepysLibrary, 2 Accordingto Jlr. Hy. Hucks Gibbs'sMS, 3 These wereprinted inFrance, lateinthe15thorearlyinthe16thcentury. 4 15th cent., containingonly the Vichumaine. 6 15thcent,, containingallthe 3 Pilgrimages, the 3rd beingJesus Christ's. 6 14th cent., containingthe Vichumaine andthe2ndPilgrimage, deI'Ame: bothinc—omplete. ^—Ab. 1430, 106 leaves (leaf 1 oftextwanting), withilluminations ofnice littledevils red, green, tawny, &c. and damndsouls, fires, angels &c. — differences between the foundation MS. (theLaud108) and its followersare so great,that,xo prevent quite unwieldy collations, Prof. Horstmann decided that the Laud MS. must be printed alone, as the first of the Series ofSaints' Lives. The Supplementary Livesfrom the Vernonand otherMSS. will form one or two separate volumes. The Glossary to the whole set, the discussion ofthe sources, and of the relation of the MSS. to one another, &c., will be put in a final volume. When the Saints' Lives arecomplete,Trevisa's englishing ofBartholonKsus deProprieta- tihus Rerum, the mediaeval Cyclopaedia of Science, &c., will be the Society's next bigunder- taking. Dr. K. 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 theunprintedandotherAnglo-Saxon Homilies whicharenotincluded in Thorpe's edition of iElfric's prose,^ Dr. Morris's of the Blickling Homilies, and Prof. Skeat's of ^Ifric'sMetricalHomilies. ProfKolbinghas also undertaken for the Society'sExtraSeries a Parallel-Text ofallthesix MSS. ofthe^wcren i2iw;Ze,oneofthemostimportantfoundation- documents ofEarly English. In case more Textsareready at anytime than can be paidforbythecurrentyear'sincome, they will be dated the nextyear,andissuedinadvanceto such Members as will pay advance subscriptions. The 1886-7 delay in getting out Texts mustnotoccuragain, ifit can possibly be avoided. The Directorhas copies of 2 or 3 MSS. in hand for future volunteer Editors. Members of the Society will learn with pleasure that its example has been followed, not only by the OldFrench Text Societywhich has done suchadmirable work under its founders Profs. Paul Meyer and Gaston Paris,but also by the EarlyKussian Text Society,which was set on foot in 1877, and has since issued many excellent editions ofold MS. Chronicles, &c. Members will also note with pleasure the annexation of large tracts of our Early English territory bythe important German contingent under General Zupitza, Colonels Kolbing and Horstmann, volunteers Hausknecht, Einenkel, Haenisch, Kaluza, Hupe, Adam,Holthausen, &c. &c. Scandinavia has also sent us Dr. Erdmann; Holland, Dr. H. Logeman; France, Prof. Paul Meyer—with Gaston Paris as adviser;—Italy, Prof. Lattanzi; Hungary, Dr. von Fleischhacker while America is represented by Prof. Child, Dr. Mary Noyes Colvin, ; Dr. Mead and Prof. Perrin. 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 ofthe Society's eiforts. Among the MSS. and old books which need copying or re-editing, are : ORIGINAL SEBIES. EXTBA SERIES. Maumetrie,from Lord Tollemache'sMS. v Erie ofTolous. The Romance ofTroy. Harl. 525. Ypotis. BPiubrlviecyal'sMSE.c,clCeosripeusReCagmibmre.n4,34Co(tat.>.Ti1t37u5s).D 1. SEimrarEeg.lamoure.^ Hampole'sunprinted Works. The NorthernVersePsalter, peClowdeofUnknowyng,fromHarl.MSS.2373, Le Morte Arthur,fromthe uniqueHarl.2252. A9L5a9nBtiebrl.neReog.fL1i73Ct,f2tr),om&c.Harl. MS. 2324. SSiirrTGroiwstthreerm., from theuniqueAuchinleckMS. Soule-hele,from the Vernon MS. Dame Siriz, &c. LBVoyeedgtgehatitiueus's,souan.ndpt.rhie1n4t1A0er,dt&Wcoo.rfk:WsP.airlg.rim,1426, &c.&c. DBOiraafrlelooag(auDmeigbabyen,tdw86Je)o.esnapt,,hhaet„S.oul, and^ „Bod^y. Lydgate and Burgh's'Secreta Secretonim,' Amis and Amiloun. EafGrraloymmmSTleroaena&etciMsSe.s24(o54n. Music: Descant, the IRSipirocmhGeaedrneodrnCi.cdeeusr,dfreoLmyLoonr.dTotHtlarllei.ma4^c6^h9ae0a.sMS. Skelton's'englishingofDiodonisSiculus. The Troy-Book fragments once cald Barbour's The Nightingale and other Poems, from MS. inthe Cambr. Univ. Libraryand DouceMbb. LyCroitcaClalPigo.eAms2,,Afdrdoitm.tMhSe.Ha1r0l,.03M6,S.&,c.2253. PGoawretro'n^ospCeoonffeBslosiiso,A&mc.a,nAttihse.lston. PenitentialPsalms,by Rd.Maydenstoon, Bramp- Poems ofCharles,Duke ofOrleans. ton, &c. (Rawlinson, A. 389, &c.) Carols and Songs. DocumentsfromtheRegistersoftheBishops The Siege ofRouen,from Harl. MSS. 2256, 753, ofall Diocesesin GreatBritain. Egerton 1995, Bodl.3562, E. Museo124, &c. Ordinances and Documents of the City of Pilgrimagesto Jerusalem. Worcester Mulcaster'sPositions,1501,ed,T.Widgery, M.A. Chronicles oftheBrute. Jn.Hart's Orthographic, 1569,andMethodeto T.Breus'sPassion ofChrist,1422. Harl. 2338. readEngUsh,1570. BookforRecluses, Harl. 2372. Hilton'sLadderofPerfection. Lollard TheologicalTreatise,Harl, 2343. H. Selby'sNorthernEthicalTract,Harl. 2388, art. 20. The Founder and Director of the E.E.T.Soc. is Dr. F. J. Furnivall, 3 St. George'sSq., PrimroseHill, London N.W. Its Hon. Sec. is W. A. Dalziel, Esq., 67Victoria Road, Finsbury Park, London, N. The Subscription tothe Societyis21*.ayearforthe Original Series, and 21*. fortheExtraSeriesofle-editions. 1 Of these, Mr. Harsley is preparing a new edition, with collations of aU the MSS. Many copies of Thorpe'sbook, notissuedbythe ^Ifric Society, arestill instock. OftheVercelliHomilies, theSocietyhasboughtthecopymadebyProf. G.Lattanzi.