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.

Saints’ Lives.

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.„
8. Morte Arthure, ab. 1440, ed. E. Brock. 7s.„
9. Thynne on Speght’s ed. of Chaucer, A.D. 1599, ed. Dr. G. Kingsley and Dr. F. J. Furnivall. 10s.„
10. Merlin, ab. 1440, Part I., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 2s. 6d.„
11. Lyndesay’s Monarche, &c., 1552, Part I., ed. J. Small, M.A. 3s.„
12. Wright’s Chaste Wife, ab. 1462, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 1s.„
13. Seinte Marherete, 1200-1330, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne; re-edited by Dr. Otto Glauning. [Out of print.1866
14. Kyng Horn, Floris and Blancheflour, &c., ed. Rev. J. R. Lumby, B.D., re-ed. Dr. G. H. McKnight. 5s.„
15. Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 7s. 6d.„
16. The Book of Quinte Essence, ab. 1460-70, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1s.„
17. Parallel Extracts from 45 MSS. of Piers the Plowman, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 1s.„
18. Hali Meidenhad, ab. 1200, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne, re-edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. [At Press.„
19. Lyndesay’s Monarche, &c., Part II., ed. J. Small, M.A. 3s. 6d.„
20. Hampole’s English Prose Treatises, ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 1s. [Out of print.„
21. Merlin, Part II., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 4s.„
22. Partenay or Lusignen, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat.„
23. Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10s. 6d.„
24. Hymns to the Virgin and Christ; the Parliament of Devils, &c., ab. 1430, ed. F. J. Furnivall.1867
25. The Stacions of Rome, the Pilgrims’ Sea-voyage, with Clene Maydenhod, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1s.„
26. Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse, from R. Thornton’s MS., ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 2s. [Out of print.„
27. Levins’s Manipulus Vocabulorum, a ryming Dictionary, 1570, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 12s.„
28. William’s Vision of Piers the Plowman, 1362 A.D.; Text A, Part I., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 6s.„
29. Old English Homilies (ab. 1220-30 A.D.). Series I, Part I. Edited by Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 7s.„
30. Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 2s.„
31. Myrc’s Duties of a Parish Priest, in Verse, ab. 1420 A.D., ed. E. Peacock. 4s.1868
32. Early 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. 12s.„
33. The Knight de la Tour Landry, ab. 1440 A.D. A Book for Daughters, ed. T. Wright, M.A. [Out of print.
34. Old English Homilies (before 1300 A.D.). Series I, Part II., ed. R. Morris, LL.D. 8s.„
35. Lyndesay’s Works, Part III.: The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, ed. F. Hall. 2s.„
36. Merlin, Part III. Ed. H. B. Wheatley. On Arthurian Localities, by J. S. Stuart Glennie. 12s.1869
37. Sir David Lyndesay’s Works, Part IV., Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits. ed. F. Hall, D.C.L. 4s.„
38. William’s Vision of Piers the Plowman, Part II. Text B. Ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s. 6d.„
39. Alliterative Romance of the Destruction of Troy. ed. D. Donaldson & G. A. Panton. Pt. I. 10s. 6d.„
40. English 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. 21s.1870
41. William Lauder’s Minor Poems. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 3s.„
42. Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris, Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. Ed. J. R. Lumby, M.A. 2s.„
43. Ratis Raving, and other Moral and Religious Pieces. Ed. J. R. Lumby, M.A.„
44. The 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. 5s.1871
45. King 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.„
46. Legends of the Holy Rood, Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. 10s.„
47. Sir David Lyndesay’s Works, Part V., ed. Dr. J. A. H. Murray. 3s.„
48. The Times’ Whistle, and other Poems, by R. C., 1616; ed. by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 6s.„
49. An Old English Miscellany, containing a Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, and Religious Poems of the 13th cent., ed. from the MSS. by the Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. 10s.1872
50. King Alfred’s West-Saxon Version of Gregory’s Pastoral Care, ed. H. Sweet, M.A. Part II. 10s.„
51. The Life of St Juliana, 2 versions, A.D. 1230, with translations; ed. T. O. Cockayne & E. Brock. 2s.„
52. Palladius on Husbondrie, englisht (ab. 1420 A.D.), ed. Rev. Barton Lodge, M.A. Part I. 10s.1872
53. Old-English Homilies, Series II., and three Hymns to the Virgin and God, 13th-century, with the music to two of them, in old and modern notation; ed. Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. 8s.1873
54. The Vision of Piers Plowman, Text C: Richard the Redeles (by William, the author of the Vision) and The Crowned King; Part III., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 18s.„
55. Generydes, a Romance, ab. 1440 A.D., ed. W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Part I. 3s.„
56. The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy, in alliterative verse; ed. by D. Donaldson, Esq., and the late Rev. G. A. Panton. Part II. 10s. 6d.1874
57. The Early English Version of the “Cursor Mundi”; in four Texts, edited by the Rev. R. Morris, M.A., LL.D. Part I, with 2 photolithographic facsimiles. 10s. 6d.„
58. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. Part I. 8s.„
59. The “Cursor Mundi,” in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. B. Morris. Part II. 15s.1875
60. Meditacyuns on the Soper of our Lorde (by Robert of Brunne), edited by J. M. Cowper. 2s. 6d.„
61. The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Eroeldoune, from 5 MSS.; ed. Dr. J. A. H. Murray. 10s. 6d.„
62. The “Cursor Mundi,” in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. B. Morris. Part III. 15s.1876
63. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part II. 7s.„
64. Francis Thynne’s Embleames and Epigrams, A.D. 1600, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 7s.„
65. Be Domes Dæge (Bede’s De Die Judicii), &c., ed. J. R. Lumby, B.D. 2s.„
66. The “Cursor Mundi,” in four Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part IV., with 2 autotypes. 10s.1877
67. Notes on Piers Plowman, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. Part I. 21s.„
68. The “Cursor Mundi,” in 4 Texts, ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris Part V. 25s.1878
69. Adam Davie’s 5 Dreams about Edward II., &c., ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 5s.„
70. Generydes, a Romance, ed. W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Part II. 4s.„
71. The Lay Folks Mass-Book, four texts, ed. Rev. Canon Simmons. 25s.1879
72. Palladius on Husbondrie, englisht (ab. 1420 A.D.). Part II. Ed. S. J. Herrtage, B.A. 15s.„
73. The Blickling Homilies, 971 A.D., ed. Rev. Dr. R. Morris. Part III. 10s.1880
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.1881
76. Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints, in MS. Cott. Jul. E 7., ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A. Part I. 10s.„
77. Beowulf, the unique MS. autotyped and transliterated, edited by Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. 25s.1882
78. The Fifty Earliest English Wills, in the Court of Probate, 1387-1439, ed. by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 7s.„
79. King Alfred’s Orosius, from Lord Tollemache’s 9th century MS., Part I, ed. H. Sweet, M.A. 13s.1883
79b. The Epinal Glossary, 8th cent., ed. J. H. Hessels, M.A. 15s. [Preparing.„
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. 18s.„
82. Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7., ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, M.A., LL.D. Part II. 12s.1885
83. The Oldest English Texts, Charters, &c., ed. H. Sweet, M.A. 20s.„
84. Additional Analogs to ‘The Wright’s Chaste Wife,’ No. 12, by W. A. Clouston. 1s.1886
85. The Three Kings of Cologne. 2 English Texts, and 1 Latin, ed. Dr. C. Horstmann. 17s.„
86. Prose Lives of Women Saints, ab. 1610 A.D., ed. from the unique MS. by Dr. C. Horstmann. 12s.„
87. Early English Verse Lives of Saints (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. 10s.„
89. Vices and Virtues, from the unique MS., ab. 1200 A.D., ed. Dr. F. Holthausen. Part I. 8s.1888
90. Anglo-Saxon and Latin Rule of St. Benet, interlinear Glosses, ed. Dr. H. Logeman. 12s.„
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. Pt. I. 12s.1889
93. Defensor’s Liber Scintillarum, edited from the MSS. by Ernest Rhodes, B.A. 12s.„
94. Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints, MS. Cott. Jul. E 7, Part III., ed. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 12s.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.1892
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.1893
101. Cursor Mundi. Part VII. Essay on the MSS., their Dialects, &c., by Dr. H. Hupe. 10s.„
102. Lanfranc’s Cirurgie, ab. 1400 A.D., ed. Dr. R. von Fleischhacker. Part I. 20s.1894
103. The Legend of the Cross, from a 12th century MS., &c., ed. Prof. A. S. Napier, M.A., Ph.D. 7s. 6d.„
104. The Exeter Book (Anglo-Saxon Poems), re-edited from the unique MS. by I. Gollancz, M.A. Part I. 20s.1895
105. The Prymer or Lay-Folks’ Prayer-Book, Camb. Univ. MS., ab. 1420, ed. Henry Littlehales. Part I. 10s.„
106. R. Misyn’s Fire of Love and Mending of Life (Hampole), 1434, 1435, ed. Rev. R. Harvey, M.A. 15s.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. 15s.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.1898
111. The Old-English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, ed. Dr. T. Miller. Part II, § 2. 15s.„
112. Merlin, Part IV: Outlines of the Legend of Merlin, by Prof. W. E. Mead. Ph.D. 15s.1899
113. Queen Elizabeth’s Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch &c. &c., ed. Miss C. Pemberton. 15s.„
114. Aelfric’s Metrical lives of Saints, Part IV and last, ed. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 10s.1900
115. Jacob’s Well, edited from the unique Salisbury Cathedral MS. by Dr. A. Brandeis. Part I. 10s.„
116. An Old-English Martyrology, re-edited by Dr. G. Herzfeld. 10s.„
117. Minor Poems of the Vernon MS., edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Part II. 15s.1901
118. The Lay Folks’ Catechism, ed. by Canon Simmons and Rev. H. E. Nolloth, M.A. 5s.„
119. Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne (1303), and its French original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. I. 10s.„
120. The Rule of St. Benet, in Northern Prose and Verse, & Caxton’s Summary, ed. Dr. E. A. Kock. 15s.1902
121. The Laud MS. Troy-Book, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595, by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part I. 15s.„
122. The Laud MS. Troy-Book, ed. from the unique Laud MS. 595, by Dr. J. E. Wülfing. Part II. 20s.1903
123. Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne (1303), and its French original, re-ed. by Dr. Furnivall. Pt. II. 10s.„
124. Twenty-six Political and other Poems from Digby MS. 102 &c, ed. by Dr. J. Kail. Part I. 10s.1904
125. Medieval Records of a London City Church, ed. Henry Littlehales. Pt. 1. 20s.„
126. An Alphabet of Tales, in Northern English from Latin, ed. Mrs. M. M. Banks. Part I. 10s.„
127.1905