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Early English Text Society.
Original Series, 32.
Early English Meals and Manners:
John Russell’s Boke of Nurture,
Wynkyn de Worde’s Boke of Keruynge,
The Boke of Curtasye,
R. Weste’s Booke of Demeanor,
Seager’s Schoole of Vertue,
The Babees Book, Aristotle’s ABC, Urbanitatis,
Stans Puer ad Mensam, The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke,
For to serve a Lord, Old Symon, The Birched School-Boy,
&c. &c.
with some
Forewords on Education in Early England.
Edited by
FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A.,
Trin. Hall, Cambridge.
London:
Published for the Early English Text Society
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Dryden House, 43, Gerrard Street, Soho, W.
1868.
[_Re-printed 1894, 1904._]
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The Early English Text Society was started by Dr. Furnivall in 1864 for
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reach of the ordinary student, and of wiping away the reproach under
which England had long rested, of having felt little interest in the
monuments of her early language and life.
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the prices put after them in the Lists; but Members can get back-Texts
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-> The Society intends to complete, as soon as its funds will allow, the
Reprints of its out-of-print Texts of the year 1866, and also of nos.
20, 26 and 33. Prof. Skeat has finisht _Partenay_; Dr. McKnight of Ohio
_King Horn_ and _Floris and Blancheflour_; and Dr. Furnivall his
_Political, Religious and Love Poems_ and _Myrc’s Duties of a Parish
Priest_. Dr. Otto Glauning has undertaken _Seinte Marherete_; and Dr.
Furnivall has _Hali Meidenhad_ in type. As the cost of these Reprints,
if they were not needed, would have been devoted to fresh Texts, the
Reprints will be sent to all Members in lieu of such Texts. Though
called ‘Reprints,’ these books are new editions, generally with valuable
additions, a fact not noticed by a few careless receivers of them, who
have complained that they already had the volumes. As the Society’s
copies of the _Facsimile of the Epinal MS._ issued as an Extra Volume
in 1883 are exhausted, Mr. J. H. Hessels, M.A., of St. John’s Coll.,
Cambridge, has kindly undertaken an edition of the MS. for the Society.
This will be substituted for the Facsimile as an 1883 book, but will be
also issued to all the present Members.
JULY 1904. The Original-Series Texts for 1903 were: No. 122, Part II of
_The Laud MS. Troy-Book_, edited from the unique Laud MS. 595 by Dr.
J. E. Wülting; and No. 123, Part II of Robert of Brunne’s _Handlyng
Synne_, and its French original, ed. by Dr. F. J. Furnivall.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1903 are to be: No. LXXXVIII, _Le Morte
Arthur_, in 8-line stanzas, re-edited from the unique MS. Harl. 2252,
by Prof. J. Douglas Bruce (issued), No. LXXXIX, Lydgate’s _Reason and
Sensuality_, edited by Dr. Ernst Sieper, Part II, and _English Fragments
from Latin Medieval Service-Books_, edited, and given to the Society, by
Mr. Henry Littlehales.
The Original-Series Texts for 1904 will be No. 124, t. Hen. V,
_Twenty-six Political and other Poems_ from the Digby MS. 102, &c,
edited by Dr. J. Kail, and No. 125, Part I of the _Medieval Records of
a London City Church_ (St. Mary-at-Hill), A.D. 1420-1559, copied and
edited by Mr. Henry Littlehales from the Church Records in the
Guildhall, the cost of the setting and corrections of the text being
generously borne by its Editor. This book will show the income and
outlay of the church; the drink provided for its Palm-Sunday players,
its officers’ excursions into Kent and Essex, its dealing with the
Plague, the disposal of its goods at the Reformation, &c., &c., and will
help our members to realize the church-life of its time. The third Text
will be Part I of _An Alphabet of Tales_, a very interesting collection,
englisht in the Northern Dialect, about 1440, from the Latin _Alphabetum
Narrationum_ by Etienne de Bésançon, and edited by Mrs. M. M. Banks from
the unique MS. in the King’s Library in the British Museum; the
above-named three texts are now ready for issue. Those for 1905 and 1906
will probably be chosen from Part II of the _Exeter Book_--Anglo-Saxon
Poems from the unique MS. in Exeter Cathedral--re-edited by Israel
Gollancz, M.A.; Part II of Prof. Dr. Holthausen’s _Vices and Virtues_;
Part II of _Jacob’s Well_, edited by Dr. Brandeis; the Alliterative
_Siege of Jerusalem_, edited by the late Prof. Dr. E. Kölbing and Prof.
Dr. Kaluza; an Introduction and Glossary to the _Minor Poems of the
Vernon MS._ by H. Hartley, M.A.; Alain Chartier’s _Quadrilogue_, edited
from the unique MS. Univ. Coll. Oxford MS. No. 85, by Mr. J. W. H.
Atkins of Owen’s College; a Northern Verse _Chronicle of England_ to
1327 A.D., in 42,000 lines, about 1420 A.D., edited by M. L. Perrin,
B.A.; Prof. Bruce’s Introduction to _The English Conquest of Ireland_,
Part II; and Dr. Furnivall’s edition of the _Lichfield Gilds_, which is
all printed, and waits only for the Introduction, that Prof. E. C. K.
Gonner has kindly undertaken to write for the book. Canon Wordsworth of
Marlborough has given the Society a copy of the Leofric Canonical Rule,
Latin and Anglo-Saxon, Parker MS. 191, C.C.C. Cambridge, and Prof.
Napier will edit it, with a fragment of the englisht Capitula of Bp.
Theodulf. The _Coventry Leet Book_ is being copied for the Society by
Miss M. Dormer Harris--helpt by a contribution from the Common Council
of the City,--and will be publisht by the Society (Miss Harris editing),
as its contribution to our knowledge of the provincial city life of the
15th century.
Dr. Brie of Berlin has undertaken to edit the prose _Brut_ or _Chronicle
of Britain_ attributed to Sir John Mandeville, and printed by Caxton. He
has already examined more than 100 English MSS. and several French ones,
to get the best text, and find out its source.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1904 will be chosen from Lydgate’s
_DeGuilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Life of Man_, Part III, edited by
Miss Locock; Dr. M. Konrath’s re-edition of _William of Shorcham’s
Poems_, Part II; Dr. E. A. Kock’s edition of Lovelich’s _Merlin_ from
the unique MS. in Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge; the _Macro Plays_,
edited from Mr. Gurney’s MS. by Dr. Furnivall and A. W. Pollard, M.A.;
Prof. Erdmann’s re-edition of Lydgate’s _Siege of Thebes_ (issued also
by the Chaucer Society); Miss Rickert’s re-edition of the Romance of
_Emare_; Prof. I. Gollanez’s re-edition of two Alliterative Poems,
_Winner and Waster_, &c, ab. 1360, lately issued for the Roxburghe Club;
Dr. Norman Moore’s re-edition of _The Book of the Foundation of St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital, London_, from the unique MS. ab. 1425, which
gives an account of the Founder, Rahere, and the miraculous cures
wrought at the Hospital; _The Craft of Nombrynge_, with other of the
earliest englisht Treatises on Arithmetic, edited by R. Steele, B.A.;
and Miss Warren’s two-text edition of _The Dance of Death_ from the
Ellesmere and other MSS.
These Extra-Series Texts ought to be completed by their Editors: the
Second Part of the prose Romance of _Melusine_--Introduction, with ten
facsimiles of the best woodblocks of the old foreign black-letter
editions, Glossary, &c, by A. K. Donald, B.A. (now in India); and a new
edition of the famous Early-English Dictionary (English and Latin),
_Promptorium Parvulorum_, from the Winchester MS., ab. 1440 A.D.: in
this, the Editor, the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, M.A., will follow and print his
MS. not only in its arrangement of nouns first, and verbs second, under
every letter of the Alphabet, but also in its giving of the flexions of
the words. The Society’s edition will thus be the first modern one that
really represents its original, a point on which Mr. Mayhew’s insistence
will meet with the sympathy of all our Members.
The Texts for the Extra Series in 1906 and 1907 will be chosen from _The
Three Kings’ Sons_, Part II, the Introduction &c. by Prof. Dr. Leon
Kellner; Part II of _The Chester Plays_, re-edited from the MSS., with a
full collation of the formerly missing Devonshire MS., by Mr. G. England
and Dr. Matthews; the Parallel-Text of the only two MSS. of the _Owl and
Nightingale_, edited by Mr. G. F. H. Sykes (at press); Prof. Jespersen’s
editions of John Hart’s _Orthographie_ (MS. 1551 A.D.; blackletter
1569), and _Method to teach Reading_, 1570; Deguilleville’s _Pilgrimage
of the Sowle_, in English prose, edited by Prof. Dr. L. Kellner. (For
the three prose versions of _The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man_--two
English, one French--an Editor is wanted.) Members are askt to realise
the fact that the Society has now 50 years’ work on its Lists,--at its
present rate of production,--and that there is from 100 to 200 more
years’ work to come after that. The year 2000 will not see finisht all
the Texts that the Society ought to print. The need of more Members and
money is pressing. Offers of help from willing Editors have continually
to be declined because the Society has no funds to print their Texts.
An urgent appeal is hereby made to Members to increase the list of
Subscribers to the E. E. Text Society. It is nothing less than a scandal
that the Hellenic Society should have nearly 1000 members, while the
Early English Text Society has not 300!
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 _ABC_ or
_Prayer to the Virgin_, of which the successive stanzas start with A, B,
C, and run all thro’ the alphabet; and it has 2 main gaps, besides many
small ones from the tops of leaves being burnt in the Cotton fire. All
these gaps (save the A B C) have been fild up from the Stowe MS. 952
(which old John Stowe completed) and from the end of the other imperfect
MS. Cotton, Tiberius A vii. Thanks to the diligence of the old
Elizabethan tailor and manuscript-lover, a complete text of Lydgate’s
poem can be given, though that of an inserted theological prose treatise
is incomplete. The British Museum French MSS. (Harleian 4399,[7] and
Additional 22,937[8] and 25,594[9]) are all of the First Version.
Besides his first _Pèlerinaige de l’homme_ in its two versions,
Deguilleville wrote a second, “de l’ame separee du corps,” and a third,
“de nostre seigneur Iesus.” Of the second, a prose Englishing of 1413,
_The Pilgrimage of the Sowle_ (with poems by Hoccleve, already printed
for the Society with that author’s _Regement of Princes_), exists in the
Egerton MS. 615,[10] at Hatfield, Cambridge (Univ. Kk. 1. 7, and Caius),
Oxford (Univ. Coll. and Corpus), and in Caxton’s edition of 1483. This
version has ‘somewhat of addicions’ as Caxton says, and some shortenings
too, as the maker of both, the first translater, tells us in the MSS.
Caxton leaves out the earlier englisher’s interesting Epilog in the
Egerton MS. This prose englishing of the _Sowle_ will be edited for the
Society by Prof. Dr. Leon Kellner after that of the _Man_ is finisht,
and will have Gallopes’s French opposite it, from Lord Aldenham’s MS.,
as his gift to the Society. Of the Pilgrimage of Jesus, no englishing is
known.
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 anytime, 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
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. „
3. _Lauder on the Dewtie of Kyngis, &c._, 1556, ed. F. Hall, D.C.L.
4s. „
4. _Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight_, ab. 1360, ed. Rev. Dr.
R. Morris. 10s. „
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. „
7. _Genesis & Exodus_, ab. 1250, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 8s. „
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