Illuminated MSS in Classical and
Medieval
Times.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
E.
Literature, An Old English Homily on the Ob-
servance of Sunday, etc. (A. S. Napier), Three Footnotes, Barbour, Morte
Arthure, etc. (G. Neilson), Amadas et Idoine (G. Paris), Beowulf and
Watanabe-no-Tsuna (F. York Powell), John Audelay's poem on the
observance of Sunday (R. Priebsch), Andreas and Fata Apostolorum
(W. W. Skeat), The Introduction of English as the vehicle of instruction
in English Schools (John of Cornwall and Richard Pencrych) (W. H.
Stevenson).
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505
1
Gairdner, J. The historical collections of a citizen of London in the 15th cent.
(John Page's poem on the siege of Rouen, Wm. Gregory's chronicle of
London, etc. ). Camden Soc. 1876. (See also his edition of Three 15th
century chronicles, in the same series, 1880. )
Memorials of Henry VII, including B. Andro's life of Henry VII and
poems, etc. Rolls Series. 1858.
Letters and Papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and
Henry VII. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1861-3.
Garnett, B. English Literature, an illustrated record. Vol. I. 1903.
Contains an admirable selection of specimens of MSS, old prints and
other illustrative material.
Gayley, C. M. Classic Myths in English Literature. Boston. 1893.
Gibbins, H. de B. Industrial History of England. 1890.
Gierke, O. Political Theories of the Middle Ages. Trans. , Maitland, F. W.
Cambridge, 1900.
Gilds, English, their Statutes and Customs. 1389. Ed. Smith, T. and
Smith, L. T. E. E. T. S. 1870. Contains an excellent introductory essay
by Brentano, L.
Green, Alice S. Town life in the Fifteenth Century. 2 vols. 1894.
Gross, C. The Sources and Literature of English History . . . to about 1485.
1900.
Hall, H. Court Life under the Plantagenets (Henry II). 1890.
Hallam, H. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th-17th
centuries. 4 vols. 1837 ff.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. 2 vols. 1818 ff.
Henderson, E. F. Select Hist. Documents of the Middle Ages. 1892.
Historic Towns. Ed. Freeman, E. A. and Hunt, W. Bristol (W. Hunt);
Carlisle (M. Creighton); Colchester (E. L. Cutts); Exeter (E. A.
Freeman); London (W. J. Loftie); Oxford (W. C. Boase); Winchester
(G. W. Kitchin); York (J. Raine); etc.
Hunt, W. and Poole, R. L. (edd. ). Political History of England. 12 vols.
In progress.
Jenks, E. Law and Politics in the Middle Ages. 1898.
Jusserand, J. J. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, xivth cent.
In Fr. 1884; trans. Smith, L. T. , 1889 ff.
Ker, W. P. Essays on Medieval Literature. 1905. (For Malory, Chaucer,
Froissart, etc. )
Lecky, W. E. H. Hist. of European Morals. 1869 ff.
London. For Fitz-Stephen's description of London in the Middle Ages, and
for many other documents illustrative of medieval London manners and
customs, see Riley, H. T. , Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, 3 vols. ,
Rolls Series, 1859-62. Also Riley, H. T. , Memorials of London in the
13th, 14th and 15th centuries, 1868; and the Calendar of Letter Books
preserved among the Archives of the Corporation at the Guildhall,
A. D. 1275–1399, ed. Sharpe, R. R. , 1899 ff. London Lickpenny, whether it
be Lydgate's or not, and Occleve's La Male Règle, are extremely valuable
London documents. ' And Lydgate's Jak Hare's begging letter begin-
ning “A froward knave plainly to descryve' (Reliquiae Antiquae, 1, 13;
Halliwell's edition of Minor Pooms, pp. 52-5) should be read with them.
Madan, F. Books in Manuscript. 1893.
Maitland, F. W. Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 1305.
Rolls Series, 1893.
Township and Borough. Cambridge, 1898.
Maitland, S. R. The Dark Ages. 1844 ff.
Maury, L. F. Alfred. Croyances et Légendes du moyen âge. 1896.
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Middle Ages. For general literary summaries see Jusserand, J. J. , Hist.
Lit. du Peuple Anglais, vol. 1, Deux° ed. 1896, chap. VII La fin du moyen
âge; Snell, F. J. , The Fourteenth Century, 1899, last chapter; Smith, G.
Gregory, The Transition Period, 1900 (see, for example, pp. 15-16);
Loliée, F. , A Short History of Comparative Literature, Eng. trans. ,
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Middleton, J. H.
Illuminated MSS in Classical and Medieval Times. Oxford,
1892.
Minstrels and Folk-songs. See Chambers, E. K. , The Medieval Stage, 2 vols. ,
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Oxford, 1903, and the bibliography contained therein. Cf. also the
chapter on Town-verse and Folk-song in Snell, F. J. , The Four-
teenth Century, 1899; and the first chapter in vol. iv of the present
work.
Pauli, R. Bilder aus Alteng. ' Gotha, 1860. Eng. trans. , Otté, E. C. 1861 ff.
Gesch, der Europ. Staaten: England, vols. III-V (1154-1509). Gotha,
1855.
Poets Laureate. For early poets laureate, see Warton, T. , Hist. Eng. Poet. ,
vol. 11, sect. xxv (1840), pp. 330 ff. ; and Dyce, A. , in his ed. of Skelton.
2 vols, 1843, vol. I, p. vii.
Putnam, G. H. Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
((1) 476-1600; (2) 1500-1709). New York. 1896-7.
Raleigh, W. The English Novel. 1894.
Ramsay, Sir J. H. The Foundations of England (to 1154). 2 vols. 1898.
Lancaster and York, 1399-1485. 2 vols. Oxford, 1892.
Reade, C. The Cloister and the Hearth. J. Nield's Guide to the Best
Historical Novels and Tales, 1902, should be consulted for similar works.
Among the more important of these, to the end of the Middle Ages,
may be mentioned Thorpe Forrest's Builders of the Waste (a well-written
novel based on the conflict of Britons and English in Yorkshire), Lytton's
Harold and Last of the Barons, Kingsley's Hereward the Wake, Thomas
Love Peacock's Maid Marian, E. Rhys's The Whistling Maid (Wales,
temp. Edw. II), Maurice Hewlett's New Canterbury Tales, G. P. R.
James's Agincourt, James Grant's The Captain of the Guard, R. L.
Stevenson's The Black Arrow, Harold Frederic's The Deserter (Wars of
the Roses) and Mary Shelley's Perkin Warbeck.
Robert, A. O. M. Fables inédites de xII–XIV siècles. 2 vols. 1825.
Rogers, F. The Seven Deadly Sins. 1907.
Rogers, J. E. Thorold. History of Agriculture and Prices in England.
1259–1793. 6 vols. Oxford. 1866-87. Vols. I and 11, 1259-1400; 1II and
iv, 1401-1582. Also his Six Centuries of Work and Wages, 1884 ff.
Romances. See vol. I, chapters XIII and xiv and bibliographies. Also
vol. III for the romances printed in the 16th cent. For details of the
old romances preserved in monastic libraries, and minstrels in monas-
teries, see Warton, sect. 11. He states that William of Wykeham gave a
copy of Chronicon Trojae to Winchester College, c. 1387, and that in the
Statutes of New College, c. 1380, it was provided that scholars, for their
recreation on festival days in the hall after dinner and supper,' were 'to
entertain themselves with songs. . . and to recite poems, chronicles of
kingdoms, the wonders of the world,' etc.
Shirley, W. W. Royal and other historical letters illustrative of the reign of
Henry III. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1862-6. Of great value.
Smith, G. Gregory. Days of James IV. Scot. Hist. from contemporary
writers. 1899.
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Steele, R. Medieval Lore: an Epitome of the Science, Geography, Animal
and Plant Folk-Lore of the Middle Age. Pref. by Morris, W. 1893.
(ed. ). Kings' letters: from the days of Alfred to the accession of the
Tudors. King's Classics. 1903.
Stevenson, W. B. The Crusaders in the East. Cambridge, 1907.
Strutt, J. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, 1801. Ed.
Cox, J. C. 1903.
Taylor, H. O. Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages. New York. 1901.
Thompson, E. Wars of York and Lancaster. Eng. Hist. from Contemporary
Writers Series. 1892.
Wright, T. Womankind in Western Europe to the 17th cent. 1869.
A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England during the
Middle Ages. 1862.
Biographia Britannica Literaria. 2 rols. 1842. The Anglo-Saxon
volume has been referred to elsewhere in these bibliographies. The
Anglo-Norman volume gives details of Latin, as well as of English and
French, writings, from Lanfranc to Layamon.
Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions
and history of England in the Middle Ages. 2 vols. 1846. Contains
interesting essays on 'Anglo-Saxon,' Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman
poetry, Chansons de Geste, Proverbs, Fairy Mythology, Friar Rush,
Popular Stories, Hereward, Eustace the Monk, Falke Fitz Warine,
Robin Hood Ballads, the Conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans,
Political Songs, Dunbar, etc. , etc.
Old French writers and critical works thereon.
Books mentioned in the bibliographies of chapters VIII, XII, XIII, XIV, etc. ,
vol. I, should be consulted, especially Histoire Littéraire de la France; Petit
de Julleville's Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature française (for
language, see vol. II, pp. 520 ff. ), the works of Gaston Paris, G. Gröber's
Grundriss der roman. Philologie, Romania, the publications of the Société
des anciens textes français, etc. M. Edwardes's Summary of the literature
of modern Europe, 1907, gives useful references to MSS, eto.
Adgar's (or William the trouvère's) Marien Legenden (12th cent. ). Ed.
Neuhaus, O. Heilbronn, 1886.
Ambroise. Hist. de la Guerre Sainte. Ed. Paris, G. 1897. Cf. Itinerarium
. . regis Ricardi. Ed. Stubbs, W. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1864-5.
Benoit's St Brendan. 1121. Ed. Michel, F. 1878.
servance of Sunday, etc. (A. S. Napier), Three Footnotes, Barbour, Morte
Arthure, etc. (G. Neilson), Amadas et Idoine (G. Paris), Beowulf and
Watanabe-no-Tsuna (F. York Powell), John Audelay's poem on the
observance of Sunday (R. Priebsch), Andreas and Fata Apostolorum
(W. W. Skeat), The Introduction of English as the vehicle of instruction
in English Schools (John of Cornwall and Richard Pencrych) (W. H.
Stevenson).
## p. 505 (#523) ############################################
Chapter XVIII
505
1
Gairdner, J. The historical collections of a citizen of London in the 15th cent.
(John Page's poem on the siege of Rouen, Wm. Gregory's chronicle of
London, etc. ). Camden Soc. 1876. (See also his edition of Three 15th
century chronicles, in the same series, 1880. )
Memorials of Henry VII, including B. Andro's life of Henry VII and
poems, etc. Rolls Series. 1858.
Letters and Papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and
Henry VII. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1861-3.
Garnett, B. English Literature, an illustrated record. Vol. I. 1903.
Contains an admirable selection of specimens of MSS, old prints and
other illustrative material.
Gayley, C. M. Classic Myths in English Literature. Boston. 1893.
Gibbins, H. de B. Industrial History of England. 1890.
Gierke, O. Political Theories of the Middle Ages. Trans. , Maitland, F. W.
Cambridge, 1900.
Gilds, English, their Statutes and Customs. 1389. Ed. Smith, T. and
Smith, L. T. E. E. T. S. 1870. Contains an excellent introductory essay
by Brentano, L.
Green, Alice S. Town life in the Fifteenth Century. 2 vols. 1894.
Gross, C. The Sources and Literature of English History . . . to about 1485.
1900.
Hall, H. Court Life under the Plantagenets (Henry II). 1890.
Hallam, H. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th-17th
centuries. 4 vols. 1837 ff.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. 2 vols. 1818 ff.
Henderson, E. F. Select Hist. Documents of the Middle Ages. 1892.
Historic Towns. Ed. Freeman, E. A. and Hunt, W. Bristol (W. Hunt);
Carlisle (M. Creighton); Colchester (E. L. Cutts); Exeter (E. A.
Freeman); London (W. J. Loftie); Oxford (W. C. Boase); Winchester
(G. W. Kitchin); York (J. Raine); etc.
Hunt, W. and Poole, R. L. (edd. ). Political History of England. 12 vols.
In progress.
Jenks, E. Law and Politics in the Middle Ages. 1898.
Jusserand, J. J. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, xivth cent.
In Fr. 1884; trans. Smith, L. T. , 1889 ff.
Ker, W. P. Essays on Medieval Literature. 1905. (For Malory, Chaucer,
Froissart, etc. )
Lecky, W. E. H. Hist. of European Morals. 1869 ff.
London. For Fitz-Stephen's description of London in the Middle Ages, and
for many other documents illustrative of medieval London manners and
customs, see Riley, H. T. , Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, 3 vols. ,
Rolls Series, 1859-62. Also Riley, H. T. , Memorials of London in the
13th, 14th and 15th centuries, 1868; and the Calendar of Letter Books
preserved among the Archives of the Corporation at the Guildhall,
A. D. 1275–1399, ed. Sharpe, R. R. , 1899 ff. London Lickpenny, whether it
be Lydgate's or not, and Occleve's La Male Règle, are extremely valuable
London documents. ' And Lydgate's Jak Hare's begging letter begin-
ning “A froward knave plainly to descryve' (Reliquiae Antiquae, 1, 13;
Halliwell's edition of Minor Pooms, pp. 52-5) should be read with them.
Madan, F. Books in Manuscript. 1893.
Maitland, F. W. Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 1305.
Rolls Series, 1893.
Township and Borough. Cambridge, 1898.
Maitland, S. R. The Dark Ages. 1844 ff.
Maury, L. F. Alfred. Croyances et Légendes du moyen âge. 1896.
## p. 506 (#524) ############################################
506
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9
Maury, L. F. A. Légendes pienses du Moyen Age. Paris, 1843.
Middle Ages. For general literary summaries see Jusserand, J. J. , Hist.
Lit. du Peuple Anglais, vol. 1, Deux° ed. 1896, chap. VII La fin du moyen
âge; Snell, F. J. , The Fourteenth Century, 1899, last chapter; Smith, G.
Gregory, The Transition Period, 1900 (see, for example, pp. 15-16);
Loliée, F. , A Short History of Comparative Literature, Eng. trans. ,
1906; Taine, H. A. , History of English Literature, Eng. trans,
vol. I.
Middleton, J. H.
Illuminated MSS in Classical and Medieval Times. Oxford,
1892.
Minstrels and Folk-songs. See Chambers, E. K. , The Medieval Stage, 2 vols. ,
.
Oxford, 1903, and the bibliography contained therein. Cf. also the
chapter on Town-verse and Folk-song in Snell, F. J. , The Four-
teenth Century, 1899; and the first chapter in vol. iv of the present
work.
Pauli, R. Bilder aus Alteng. ' Gotha, 1860. Eng. trans. , Otté, E. C. 1861 ff.
Gesch, der Europ. Staaten: England, vols. III-V (1154-1509). Gotha,
1855.
Poets Laureate. For early poets laureate, see Warton, T. , Hist. Eng. Poet. ,
vol. 11, sect. xxv (1840), pp. 330 ff. ; and Dyce, A. , in his ed. of Skelton.
2 vols, 1843, vol. I, p. vii.
Putnam, G. H. Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
((1) 476-1600; (2) 1500-1709). New York. 1896-7.
Raleigh, W. The English Novel. 1894.
Ramsay, Sir J. H. The Foundations of England (to 1154). 2 vols. 1898.
Lancaster and York, 1399-1485. 2 vols. Oxford, 1892.
Reade, C. The Cloister and the Hearth. J. Nield's Guide to the Best
Historical Novels and Tales, 1902, should be consulted for similar works.
Among the more important of these, to the end of the Middle Ages,
may be mentioned Thorpe Forrest's Builders of the Waste (a well-written
novel based on the conflict of Britons and English in Yorkshire), Lytton's
Harold and Last of the Barons, Kingsley's Hereward the Wake, Thomas
Love Peacock's Maid Marian, E. Rhys's The Whistling Maid (Wales,
temp. Edw. II), Maurice Hewlett's New Canterbury Tales, G. P. R.
James's Agincourt, James Grant's The Captain of the Guard, R. L.
Stevenson's The Black Arrow, Harold Frederic's The Deserter (Wars of
the Roses) and Mary Shelley's Perkin Warbeck.
Robert, A. O. M. Fables inédites de xII–XIV siècles. 2 vols. 1825.
Rogers, F. The Seven Deadly Sins. 1907.
Rogers, J. E. Thorold. History of Agriculture and Prices in England.
1259–1793. 6 vols. Oxford. 1866-87. Vols. I and 11, 1259-1400; 1II and
iv, 1401-1582. Also his Six Centuries of Work and Wages, 1884 ff.
Romances. See vol. I, chapters XIII and xiv and bibliographies. Also
vol. III for the romances printed in the 16th cent. For details of the
old romances preserved in monastic libraries, and minstrels in monas-
teries, see Warton, sect. 11. He states that William of Wykeham gave a
copy of Chronicon Trojae to Winchester College, c. 1387, and that in the
Statutes of New College, c. 1380, it was provided that scholars, for their
recreation on festival days in the hall after dinner and supper,' were 'to
entertain themselves with songs. . . and to recite poems, chronicles of
kingdoms, the wonders of the world,' etc.
Shirley, W. W. Royal and other historical letters illustrative of the reign of
Henry III. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1862-6. Of great value.
Smith, G. Gregory. Days of James IV. Scot. Hist. from contemporary
writers. 1899.
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507
Steele, R. Medieval Lore: an Epitome of the Science, Geography, Animal
and Plant Folk-Lore of the Middle Age. Pref. by Morris, W. 1893.
(ed. ). Kings' letters: from the days of Alfred to the accession of the
Tudors. King's Classics. 1903.
Stevenson, W. B. The Crusaders in the East. Cambridge, 1907.
Strutt, J. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, 1801. Ed.
Cox, J. C. 1903.
Taylor, H. O. Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages. New York. 1901.
Thompson, E. Wars of York and Lancaster. Eng. Hist. from Contemporary
Writers Series. 1892.
Wright, T. Womankind in Western Europe to the 17th cent. 1869.
A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England during the
Middle Ages. 1862.
Biographia Britannica Literaria. 2 rols. 1842. The Anglo-Saxon
volume has been referred to elsewhere in these bibliographies. The
Anglo-Norman volume gives details of Latin, as well as of English and
French, writings, from Lanfranc to Layamon.
Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions
and history of England in the Middle Ages. 2 vols. 1846. Contains
interesting essays on 'Anglo-Saxon,' Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman
poetry, Chansons de Geste, Proverbs, Fairy Mythology, Friar Rush,
Popular Stories, Hereward, Eustace the Monk, Falke Fitz Warine,
Robin Hood Ballads, the Conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans,
Political Songs, Dunbar, etc. , etc.
Old French writers and critical works thereon.
Books mentioned in the bibliographies of chapters VIII, XII, XIII, XIV, etc. ,
vol. I, should be consulted, especially Histoire Littéraire de la France; Petit
de Julleville's Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature française (for
language, see vol. II, pp. 520 ff. ), the works of Gaston Paris, G. Gröber's
Grundriss der roman. Philologie, Romania, the publications of the Société
des anciens textes français, etc. M. Edwardes's Summary of the literature
of modern Europe, 1907, gives useful references to MSS, eto.
Adgar's (or William the trouvère's) Marien Legenden (12th cent. ). Ed.
Neuhaus, O. Heilbronn, 1886.
Ambroise. Hist. de la Guerre Sainte. Ed. Paris, G. 1897. Cf. Itinerarium
. . regis Ricardi. Ed. Stubbs, W. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1864-5.
Benoit's St Brendan. 1121. Ed. Michel, F. 1878.