Early English Text Society.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE:

Honorary Director:

IR I. GOLLANCZ, LITT.D., F.B.A., KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, W.C. 2.

Assistant Director and Secretary:

MISS MABEL DAY, D.LIT., 15, ELGIN COURT, ELGIN AVENUE,

LONDON, W. 9.

FESSOR R. W. CHAMBERS, D.LIT.,
F.B.A.

S. J. CRAWFORD, M.A., B.LITT.
HENRY LITTLEHALES.

s A. C. PAUES, PH.D.

merican

PROFESSOR A. W. POLLARD, C.B.,

F.B.A.

MR. ROBERT STEELE.
SIR G. F. WARNER, D.LIT., F.B.A.

Chairman: PROFESSOR G. L. KITTREDGE, Harvard Coll., Cambr.,

Mass.

mmittee Hon. Sec.: PROFESSOR CARLETON BROWN, Bryn Mawr Coll., Penn.,

U.S.A.

Bankers:

THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LIMITED,
2, PRINCES STREET, LONDON, E.C. 2.

The Subscription to the Society, which constitutes membership, is 2s. a year for the annual publications, from 1921 onwards, due in ance on the 1st of JANUARY, and should be paid by Cheque, Postal er, or Money Order, crost 'National Provincial Bank Limited,' to Secretary, DR. MABEL DAY, 15, Elgin Court, Elgin Avenue, don, W. 9. The Society's Texts can also be purchased separately ugh a bookseller at the prices put after them in the Lists.

Any Member could save time and trouble by sending the Secretary an order on the Member's Banker to pay the subscription each January, until countermanded. A printed form for this purpose would be sent on application to the Secretary.

THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY was started by the late DR. FURNIVALL in 1864 for the purpose of bringing the mass of Early English Literature within the 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.

On the starting of the Society, so many Texts of importance were at once taken in hand by its Editors, that it became necessary in 1867 to open, besides the Original Series with which the Society began, an Extra Series which should be mainly devoted to fresh editions of all that is most valuable in texts already printed and Caxton's and other black-letter books, though first editions of MSS. will not be excluded when the convenience of issuing them demands their inclusion in the Extra Series. From 1921 there will be but one series of publications, merging the Original and Extra Series.

During the sixty years of the Society's existence, it has produced, with whatever shortcomings, and at a cost of over £35,000, an amount of good solid work for which all students of our Language, and some of our Literature, must be grateful, and which has rendered possible the beginnings (at least) of proper Histories and Dictionaries of that Language and Literature, and has illustrated the thoughts, the life, the manners and customs of our forefathers and foremothers.

The Society's experience has shown the very small number of those inheritors of the speech of Cynewulf, Chaucer, and Shakspere, who care two guineas a year for the records of that speech. The Society has never had money enough to produce the Texts that could easily have been got ready for it; and Editors are now anxious to send to press the work they have prepared. The necessity has therefore arisen for trying to increase the number of the Society's members, and to induce its wellwishers to help it by gifts of money, either in one sum or by instalments. The Committee trust that all Members will bring before their friends and acquaintances the Society's claims for liberal support. Until all Early English MSS. are printed, no proper history of our language or social life is possible.

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(One guinea each year up to 1920.)

Early English Alliterative Poems, ab. 1360 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 168.
Arthur, ab. 1440, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 48.

Lauder on the Dewtie of Kyngis, &c., 1556, ed. F. Hall, D.C.L. 48.

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, ab. 1360, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 38. 6d.

Hume's Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, ab. 1617, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 48.
Lancelot of the Laik, ab. 1500, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 88.

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

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Kyng Horn, Floris and Blancheflour, &c., ed. Rev. J. R. Lumby, D.D., re-ed. Dr. G. H. McKnight. 58.

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

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The Book of Quinte Essence, ab. 1460-70, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 18.

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

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Hali Meidenhad, ab. 1200, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne, re-edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. (v. under 1920.)
Cyndesay's Monarche, &c., Part II., ed. J. Small, M.A. 3s. 6d.

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Richard Rolle de Hampole, English Prose Treatises of, ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. (v. under 1920.)

Hymns to the Virgin and Christ; the Parliament of Devils, &c., ab. 1430, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 38.
The Stacions of Rome, the Pilgrims' Sea-voyage, with Clene Maydenhod, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 18.
Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse, from R. Thornton's MS., ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 5s. [1913.]
Levins's Manipulus Vocabulorum, a ryming Dictionary, 1570, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 128.
Villiam's Vision of Piers the Plowman, 1362 A.D.; Text A, Part I., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 68.

lyrc's Duties of a Parish Priest, in Verse, ab. 1420 A.D., ed. E. Peacock. 48.

1868

Carly 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. 128.
The Knight de la Tour Landry, ab. 1440 A.D. A Book for Daughters, ed. T. Wright, Μ. Α. 88.
Id English Homilies (before 1300 A.D.). Series I, Part II., ed. R. Morris, LL.D. 88.
yndesay's Works, Part III.: The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, ed. F. Hall. 2s.
Cerlin, Part III. Ed. H. B. Wheatley. On Arthurian Localities, by J. S. Stuart Glennie. 12s.
Er David Lyndesay's Works, Part IV., Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits. Ed. F. Hall, D.C. L. 48.
Villiam's Vision of Piers the Plowman, Part II. Text B. Ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s. 6d.
Iliterative Romance of the Destruction of Troy. Ed. D. Donaldson & G. A. Panton. Pt. I. 10s. 6d.
mglish 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 (reprinted 1924). 30s.
illiam Lauder's Minor Poems. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 38.

ernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris, Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. Ed. J. R. Lumby, M.A. 28.
atis Raving, and other Moral and Religious Pieces. Ed. J. R Lumby, M.A. 38.
ne 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. 58.
ing 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.
gends of the Holy Rood, Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 108.
David Lyndesay's Works, Part V., ed. Dr. J. A. H. Murray. 3s.

57. The Early English Version of the “Cursor Mundi"; in four M.A., LL.D. Part I, with 2 photolithographic facsimiles. 58. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. 59. The "Cursor Mundi" in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 60. Meditacyuns on the Soper of our Lorde (by Robert of Brunne),

Texts, edited by the Rev. R. Morris,
108. 6d.

Part I. 88.
Part II. 158.

edited by J. M. Cowper. 2s. 6d.

61. The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, from 5 MSS.; ed. Dr. J. A. H. Murray. 108. 6d. 62. The "Cursor Mundi," in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part III. 158.

63. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part II. 78.

64. Francis Thynne's Embleames and Epigrams, A.D. 1600, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 78.

65. Be Domes Dæge (Bede's De Die Judicii), &c., ed. J. R. Lumby, B.D. 28.

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

67. Notes on Piers Plowman, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A.

68. The "Cursor Mundi," in 4 Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris.

Part I. 218.

Part V. 258.

69. Adam Davie's 5 Dreams about Edward II., &c., ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 58.

70. Generydes, a Romance, ed. W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Part II. 48.

71. The Lay Folks Mass-Book, four texts, ed. Rev. Canon Simmons. 258.

72. Palladius on Husbondrie, englisht (ab. 1420 A.D.). Part II. Ed. S. J. Herrtage, B. A. 158.

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

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

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. 76. Aelfric's Metrical Lives of Saints, in MS. Cott. Jul. E 7., ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M. A. Part I. 108. 77. Beowulf, the unique MS. autotyped and transliterated, edited by Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. 258. 78. The Fifty Earliest English Wills, in the Court of Probate, 1387-1439, ed. by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 78. 79. King Alfred's Orosius, from Lord Tollemache's 9th century MS., Part I, ed. H. Sweet, M.A. 138.

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1882

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1883

79 b. Extra Volume. Facsimile of the Epinal Glossary, ed. H. Sweet, M.Α. 158.

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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. 188. 82. Aelfric's Metrical Lives of Saints, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7., ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M. A., LL.D. Part II. 128. 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. 18.

1886

85. The Three Kings of Cologne. 2 English Texts, and 1 Latin, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 178.

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

87. The Early South-English Legendary (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. 108.

89. Vices and Virtues, from the unique MS., ab. 1200 A.D., ed. Dr. F. Holthausen. Part I. 88.

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.

92. Eadwine's Canterbury Psalter, from the Trin. Cambr. MS., ab. 1150 A.D., ed. F. Harsley, B. A. Pt. 1. 128. 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. 158. 1890 95. The Old-English version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, re-ed. by Dr. Thomas Miller. Part I, § 1. 18s. 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.

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

99. Cursor Mundi. Part VI. Preface, Notes, and Glossary, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10s.
100. Capgrave's Life of St. Katharine, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann, with Forewords by Dr. Furnivall. 20s.
101. Cursor Mundi. Part VII. Essay on the MSS., their Dialects, &c., by Dr. H. Hupe. 10s.
02. Lanfranc's Cirurgie, ab. 1400 A.D., ed. Dr. R. von Fleischhacker. Part I. 20s.

103. The Legend of the Cross, from a 12th century MS., &c., ed. Prof. A. S. Napier, M. A., Ph.D. 78. 6d. 104. The Exeter Book (Anglo-Saxon Poems), re-edited from the unique MS. by I. Gollancz, M.A. Part I. 208. 1895 105. The Prymer or Lay-Folks' Prayer-Book, Camb. Univ. MS., ab. 1420, ed. Henry Littlehales. Part I. 108. 106. R. Misyn's Fire of Love and Mending of Life (Hampole), 1434, 1435, ed. Rev. R. Harvey, M.A. 158. 1896 107. The English Conquest of Ireland, A.D. 1166-1185, 2 Texts, 1425, 1440, Pt. I, ed. Dr. Furnivall. 15s. 108. Child-Marriages and -Divorces, Trothplights, &c. Chester Depositions, 1561-6, ed. Dr. Furnivall. 158. 1897 109. The Prymer or Lay-Folks Prayer-Book, ab. 1420, ed. Henry Littlehales. Part II. 10s.

110. The Old-English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, ed. Dr. T. Miller. Part II, § 1. 15s. 111. The Old-English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, ed. Dr. T. Miller, Part II, § 2. 158. 112. Merlin, Part IV: Outlines of the Legend of Merlin, by Prof. W. E. Mead, Ph.D. 158.

113. Queen Elizabeth's Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch &c. &c., ed. Miss C. Pemberton. 158.

114. Aelfric's Metrical Lives of Saints, Part IV and last, ed. Prof. Skeat, Litt. D., LL.D. 108.
115. Jacob's Well, edited from the unique Salisbury Cathedral MS. by Dr. A. Brandeis. Part I. 10s.

1900

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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. 158.

1901

118. The Lay Folks' Catechism, ed. by Canon Simmons and Rev. H. E. Nolloth, M.A. 58. 119. Robert of Brunne's Handlyng Synne (1303), and its French original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. I. 108. ,, 120 The Rule of St. Benet in Northern Prose and Verse, & Caxton's Summary, ed. by E. A. Kock. 158. 1902 121. The Laud MS. Troy-Book, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595, by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part I. 158. 122. The Laud MS. Troy-Book, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595, by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part II.