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Part I. 10_s._

LXXXVII. =Two Coventry Corpus-Christi Plays=, re-edited by Hardin Craig, M.A. 10_s._ [_At Press._

_The Publications for 1903 will probably be_:—

LXXXVIII. =Le Morte Arthur=, in 8-line stanzas, re-edited from Harl. MS. 2252, by Prof. Bruce, Ph.D. 10_s._ LXXXIX. =Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuality=, edited by Ernst Sieper, Ph.D. Part II. 15_s._ XC. =English Fragments from Latin Medieval Service-Books=, ed. by Hy. Littlehales. 5_s._

_The Publications for 1904 and 1905 will be chosen from_:—

=William of Shoreham’s Poems=, re-edited by Dr. M. Konrath. Part II. [_At Press._ =Lydgate’s DeGuilleville’s Pilgrimage of the Life of Man.= Part III, Introduction, &c., by Miss Locock. =The Macro Plays=, edited from Mr. Gurney’s unique MS. by Dr. Furnivall and A. W. Pollard, M.A. [_At Press._ =Lovelich’s Romance of Merlin=, ed. from the unique MS. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. by Dr. E. A. Kock. [_At Press._ =Melusine=, the prose Romance, from the unique MS., ab. 1500, ed. A. K. Donald. B.A. Part II. [_At Press._ =Promptorium Parvulorum=, c. 1440, from the Winchester MS., ed. Rev. A. L. Mayhew, M.A. Part I. [_At Press._ =Lydgate’s Dance of Death=, edited from the MSS. by Miss Florence Warren. =Secreta Secretorum=: three prose Englishings, ab. 1440, ed. R. Steele, B.A. Part II. [_At Press._ =The Craft of Nombrynge, the earliest English Treatise on Arithmetic=, ed. R. Steele, B.A. [_At Press._ =The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London=, MS. ab. 1425, ed Dr. Norman Moore. [_Set._ =The Chester Plays=, Part II., re-edited by Dr. Matthews. [_At Press._ =Lichfield Gilds=, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall; Introduction by Prof. E. C. K. Gonner. [_Text done._ =John Hart’s Orthographie=, from his unique MS. 1551, and his black-letter text, 1569, ed. Prof. Otto Jespersen, Ph.D. =John Hart’s Methode to teach Reading, 1570=, ed. Prof. Otto Jespersen, Ph.D. =Extracts from the Rochester Diocesan Registers=, ed. Hy. Littlehales, Esq. =The Owl and Nightingale=, 2 Texts parallel, ed. G. F. H. Sykes, Esq. [_At Press._ =The Three Kings’ Sons=, Part II, French collation, Introduction, &c., by Dr. L. Kellner. =The Coventry Plays=, re-edited from the unique MS. by Dr. Matthews. =Emare=, re-edited from the MSS. by Miss Rickert. =The Ancren Riwle=, edited from its five MSS., by the late Prof. E. Kölbing, Ph.D., and Dr. Thümmler. =Mandeville’s prose Brut, or Chronicle of England=, edited from the MSS. by Dr. Brie.

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Footnotes: EETS Texts

[1] He was born about 1295. See Abbé GOUJET’S _Bibliothèque française_, Vol. IX, p. 73-4.—P. M. The Roxburghe Club printed the 1st version in 1893.

[2] The Roxburghe Club’s copy of this 2nd version was lent to Mr. Currie, and unluckily burnt too with his other MSS.

[3] These 3 MSS. have not yet been collated, but are believed to be all of the same version.

[4] Another MS. is in the Pepys Library.

[5] According to Lord Aldenham’s MS.

[6] These were printed in France, late in the 15th or early in the 16th century.

[7] 15th cent., containing only the _Vie humaine_.

[8] 15th cent., containing all the 3 Pilgrimages, the 3rd being Jesus Christ’s.

[9] 14th cent., containing the _Vie humaine_ and the 2nd Pilgrimage, _de l’Ame_: both incomplete.

[10] Ab. 1430, 106 leaves (leaf 1 of text wanting), with illuminations of nice little devils—red, green, tawny, &c.—and damnd souls, fires, angels &c.

[11] Of these, Mr. Harsley is preparing a new edition, with collations of all the MSS. Many copies of Thorpe’s book, not issued by the Ælfric Society, are still in stock.

Of the Vercelli Homilies, the Society has bought the copy made by Prof. G. Lattanzi.