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The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VII

Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in Parisian Libraries

James Simpson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:16th Aug '07

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Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in Parisian libraries The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Bibliotheque Mazarine and the Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve. They contain a miscellaneous but interesting set of Middle English prose texts: there is the Middle English version of Guy de Chauliac's 'Cyrurgie', a 'Brut', four miscellanies of religious matter, including a 'Pore Caitif' and a 'Lay Folks' Catechism', as well as texts by Rolle and Hilton. There is also Julian of Norwich's Showings and the polemical Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards.

ISBN: 9781843841500

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 174g

56 pages