The Book of the Duke of True Lovers

by de Pisan Christine

Edinburgh & London

THE MEDIEVAL LIBRARY

UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF

SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ

Litt.D., F.B.A.

Presenting a selection of the choicest literary productions of the Middle Ages in Europe—romances, religious works, poetry and manners—and including many masterpieces recently rescued from obscurity.

Post 8vo, Brown Boards, 5s. net, unless otherwise stated.

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1. THE BOOK OF THE DUKE OF TRUE LOVERS

By Christine de Pisan; a French romance of the 15th century. Translated into prose and verse with an introduction by Alice Kemp-Welch, Laurence Binyon and E. R. D. Maclagan. With 6 photogravure plates after illuminations in the original MS.

2. THE TUMBLER OF OUR LADY & OTHER MIRACLES

Mainly from a collection made by Gautier de Coinci, a monk of St. Médard near Soissons; French, 13th century. Translated in prose with an introduction by Alice Kemp-Welch. With 7 photogravure plates after contemporary MSS.

3. THE CHATELAINE OF VERGI

Anonymous; a French love-poem of the 13th century. Translated into prose by Alice Kemp-Welch. With an introduction by Prof. L. Brandin and the original text in an Appendix. With 5 photogravure plates after an ivory casket of the 14th century now in the British Museum.

4. THE BABEES' BOOK: MEDIEVAL MANNERS for the YOUNG.

From the Old English texts of Dr. Furnivall; 14th and 15th centuries. Done into modern prose and verse with an introduction and notes by Edith Rickert. With 6 photogravure plates after illuminations in contemporary MSS.

5. THE DIVINE CONSOLATION of the BLESSED ANGELA da FOLIGNO.

By the Same; Italian, 14th century. Translated in prose by M. G. Steegman and with an introduction by Algar Thorold. With photo. front, after Pierantonio Mezzastris and 4 woodcuts after the original edition of 1536.

6. THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY FINA, VIRGIN of S. GEMIGNANO.

By Fra Giovanni di Coppo; Italian, 14th century. Translated in prose with an introduction and notes by M. Mansfield. With the original text and 5 photogravures after Benozzo Gozzoli, Ghirlandaio, etc.

7. EARLY ENGLISH ROMANCES OF LOVE

Anonymous; 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Containing: ‘Floris and Blancheflour,’ ‘Sir Degrevant,’ ‘The Squire of Low Degree,’ etc. Done into modern prose with introduction and notes by Edith Rickert. With 5 photogravures after contemporary MSS.

8. EARLY ENGLISH ROMANCES OF FRIENDSHIP

Anonymous; 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Containing: ‘Amis and Amiloun,’ ‘Sir Amadis,’ ‘The Tale of Gamelyn,’ etc. Done into modern prose with introduction and notes by Edith Rickert. With 6 photogravure plates after contemporary MSS.

9. THE CELL OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE

By Richard of St. Victor, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe, etc.; 7 English mystical treatises of the 14th cent. Edited with introduction and notes by Edmund G. Gardner, M.A. With coloured collotype frontispiece.

10. ANCIENT ENGLISH CHRISTMAS CAROLS

Traditional; 1400-1700. Collected and arranged by Edith Rickert with intro., notes and glossary. With 8 photogravure plates after missals of the 15th and 16th cents. Price 7s. 6d. net.

11. EIGHT TROBADOR POETS

Containing Bertran de Born, Bernart de Ventadorn, Guiraut De Bornelh, Arnaut Daniel, etc.; Provençal, 11th-13th centuries. Selected and translated in prose with intros. and notes by Barbara Smythe. With a coloured frontispiece and decorative initials.

12. CLIGÉS

By Chrétien de Troyes; a French romance of the 13th century. Translated in prose by L. J. Gardiner, M.A. With photo. front.

13. PEARL

An English poem of the 14th century. Translated and edited by Sir Israel Gollancz, Litt.D., F.B.A. With textual and explanatory notes, glossary, photogravure frontispiece after Holman Hunt and 6 illustrations after the original MS. With the Olympia of Boccaccio in an Appendix. Price 7s. 6d. net.

14. EARLY LIVES OF CHARLEMAGNE

By Eginhard and The Monk of St. Gall.; German, 9th century. Translated from the Latin and edited with introduction and notes by Prof. A. J. Grant. With photogravure frontispiece.

15. THE CHRONICLE OF JOCELIN OF BRAKELOND

By the Same; a picture of English social and monastic life in the 12th century. Translated from the Latin and edited with notes by L. C. Jane, M.A. With an introduction by Cardinal Gasquet and a photogravure frontispiece.

16. THE VISION OF PIERS THE PLOWMAN

By William Langland; English, 14th century. Done into modern metrical English with introduction and notes by Prof. W. W. Skeat. With frontispiece after contemporary MS.

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