Critical (general). Irving, D., u.s., 1861, pp. 255–290. Lang, A. In Ward's Eng. Poets, 1887, 1, pp. 159-162. Lange, P. Chaucer's Einfluss auf die Originaldichtungen des Schotten Gavin Douglas. Diss. Halle, 1882. Neilson, W. A. Origins and Sources, u.s., 1899, pp. 77, 102, 160-163, 214. Ross, J. M., u.s., 1884, pp. 293–374. Sibbald, J., u.s., 1802. Warton, u.s., section XXXI. CHAPTER XI THE MIDDLE SCOTS ANTHOLOGIES: ANONYMOUS THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS. i. The Asloan MS, written c. 1515 by John Asloan, formerly in the possession of the Boswell family at Auchinleck, but since 1882 in that of B. W. Talbot, now Lord Talbot de Malahide. Inedited, though extracts have been printed at various times. ii. The Bannatyne MS, written in 1568 by George Bannatyne, now in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh (MS 1. 1. 6). Printed, in its entirety, by the Hunterian Club (1873-1902). See the introduction there, also Memorials of George Bannatyne (Bann. Club, 1829). iii. The Maitland Folio MS, compiled c. 1580 by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, preserved in the Pepysian collection in the library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Inedited, though extracts have been printed at various times. iv. The Maitland Quarto MS, written by Sir Richard's daughter Marie, in 1586, containing 42 pieces from the folio MS, also preserved in the Pepysian collection. Unprinted. B. Minor. V. The Makculloch MS, a collection of lecture-notes in Latin by Magnus Makculloch at Louvain in 1477, now in the Laing collection of MSS in the library of the University of Edinburgh. The Scots pieces are written on fly-leaves and blank pages throughout the MS. vi. The Gray MS, written c. 1500 by James Gray, notary public and priest of the diocese of Dunblane, now in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh (MS 34. 7. 3). The Scots pieces are interpolated throughout the MS. EARLY PRINTS. Chepman and Myllar's Prints, printed in 1508 by Walter Chepman and Andrew Myllar, preserved in a unique volume in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. The collection (20 pieces) was reproduced in facsimile by David Laing in 1827, but copies are extremely scarce. NOTE. For a more detailed account of the above collections see the bibliography in G. Gregory Smith's Specimens of Middle Scots, pp. lxvi-lxxv. An early account of the Maitland Folio and Quarto MSS will be found in Pinkerton's Ancient Scotish Poems, 1786, 11, pp. 437–471. EDITIONS (Selections). Hailes, Lord. Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS of George Bannatyne, MDLXVIII. Edinburgh, 1770. Laing, David. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland. Re-edited by John Small. Edinburgh, 1885. Early Scottish Metrical Tales. New edition. Edinburgh, 1889. Pinkerton, John. Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in Print. But now published from the MS Collections of Sir Richard Maitland.... 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1786. Sibbald, J. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1802. NOTE. The earliest reprint is Allan Ramsay's The Evergreen, being a Collection of Scots Poems, wrote by the Ingenious before 1600, 2 vols., 1724. The volumes are of the highest importance to the study of the later vernacular revival, but they make no pretence to textual accuracy. REPRINTS OF EARLY PROSE TEXTS. Abacuk Bysset. Inedited. See extract in Specimens, u.s., pp. 239-241, 315. Craft of Deyng, etc. Ed. Lumby (see note on p. 284). Gilbert of the Haye's Prose Manuscript (A.D. 1456). Vol. I. The Buke of the John of Ireland. Text not yet printed. See extracts in Specimens, u.s., pp. 92-101, 294. Murdoch Nisbet. The New Testament in Scots (c. 1520). Ed. T. Graves Spectakle of Luf, The. Ed. Laing, Bannatyne Miscellany, II. See Specimens, [For other prose works referred to at the conclusion of the chapter, see volume III of the present work.] CHAPTER XII ENGLISH PROSE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. I PECOCK. FORTESCUE. THE PASTON LETTERS. Edward, duke of York. The Master of Game. Ed. Baillie-Grohmann, W. A. and F. 1904. Privately printed. CAPGRAVE. Works and Critical Accounts. Chronicle of England. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858. Nova Legenda Angliae. MSS in York Minster library, etc. printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1516. [Cf. the earlier writings of Goscelin (A. 1099), an industrious collector of materials for saints' lives. Hist. Litt. de France, vIII.] St Katharine, Life of. Ed. Horstmann, C. Forewords by Furnivall, F. J. E.E.T.S. 1893. Leland. De Scriptoribus Britannicis, sub nom. for Latin Works. Tanner. Bibliotheca Brit.-Hiberniae. (See also D. of N. B. for MSS, etc.) Ten Brink, B. Hist. Eng. Lit. Vol. 1, pp. 17 ff. 1902. Capgrave's Lives of St Augustine (of Hippo) and St Gilbert 'of Sempyngham,' 1451, are extant in a MS believed to be holograph. Brit. Mus. Add. MS 36,704. The former he was begged by a noble gentlewoman to write for her, 'pat is to sey to translate hir treuly'; the latter was 'translat in the same forme,' 'saue sum addiciones,' at the prayer of Nicholas Reysby, Master of the order of St Gilbert of S., and designed for the anchoresses of that order. It is dated 1451, by 'J. C. amonge doctouris lest,' and is mainly a string of St Gilbert's miracles. Neither of the Latin originals is now known. The style is clear, somewhat more colloquial than that of the Annals and less compressed; duplicates are few, e.g. 'the grave or else the sepulture' of St G. Spelling is remarkably consistent. Capgrave appends a translated summary of his sermon on the various Augustinian orders, preached in Cambridge, 1422, but revised later, for Reysby and others who wished to know 'diffusely' of the subject. See New Palaeographical Society's Publications, Part In (1905), with facsimile. The two lives are being edited for the E.E.T.S. by J. J. Munro, together with portions of Capgrave's Life of St Norbert, in verse, the holograph MS of which is in the Phillipps collection. PECOCK. A. Works (printed). The Book of Faith. Second part and summary of first part, ed. Wharton, Hy. Blackletter. 1688. An edition by Morrison, J. L., is in preparation, from MS Trinity Coll. Camb. B 1445. The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy. Ed. Babington, C. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1860. With introduction and bibliography. The standard work on the whole subject of Pecock and his works. The Donet. B. Works (in MS only). Bodleian Library, No. 916. Also a transcript, James MSS in Bodleian, No. 14. The Follower to the Donet. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Reg. 17 D. IX. The Poor Men's Mirror, or Outdraught of the Donet. In the Library of Lord Amherst of Hackney, formerly in Tennison's. Excerpts by Wharton, Hy., in Lambeth MSS, No. 594. The Reule of Cristen Religioun. Phillipps collection. (For list of lost works see Babington, Introd. to Repressor.) C. Contemporary Accounts. An English Chronicle. (Cronycullys of England.) Ed. Gairdner, J., in Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles. Camden Soc. sub an. 1457, for trial and abjuration. Full account, copied by Stow, Annals, and from Stow by Holinshed. Chronicle of the Grey Friars. In Monumenta Franciscana. Vol. II. Ed. Howlett. Rolls Series. 1882. sub an. 1457, for Pecock's abjuration. See also Wilkins, Concilia, vol. III, p. 576. Gascoigne, Thomas. Liber Veritatum. MS in Lincoln College, Oxford Extracts in 'Gascoigne's Loci e Libro Veritatum.' Ed. Rogers, J. E. P. Oxford, 1881. Contains much information by a bitter enemy. Historical MSS Commission. 12th Report, Appendix, Part IX (1891), pp. Rolls of Parliament. Vol. v, p. 279. D. Works of Reference. (Leland, Comment, de Scriptoribus; Foxe, Comment. Rerum; and Wharton, Hist. Angl. Ecclesia are erroneous.) Bale, J. Illustrium majoris Britanniae scriptorum summarium. Ed. Poole Baronius Annales Eccles. vol. XXIX (i.e. Raynaldus, vol. x), sub an. 1459, for Le Neve. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Ed. Hardy, T. D. Oxford, 1854. Tanner, T. Bibl. Britan. Hibern. Good references. Also sub 'Regnum' for Gascoigne. Wharton, H. Hist. Episc.... Londin.... Assavensis. references. E. Modern Accounts. 1540. Has useful Hook, W. F. Lives of Archbishops of Canterbury. sub Stafford and Lewis, John. Life of the Learned and Right Reverend Reynold Pecock, Waterland, D. Works. Ed. van Mildert. Oxford, 1856. Vol. VI (Letters F. Critical Appreciations. Gairdner, J. and Spedding, J. Studies in English History. Edinburgh, 1881. Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Vol. I. Paris, 1894. English trans. 1895. Morley, H. English Writers. Vol. VI. 1890. [Also for Fortescue, Capgrave, etc.] Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der englischen Literatur. Vol 1. 2 vols. Strassburg, 1893. English trans. Robinson, W. C. 1893. Sir John Fortescue his Life and Works. Ed. Lord Clermont. 1869. 2 vols. On the Governance of England. Ed. Plummer, C. With introduction, etc. E. L. II. 31 Foss, E. The Judges of England, 1848-64, 9 vols., vol. IV. Taine, H. A. History of English Literature. Eng. trans. vol. 1, bk. i, chap. 11, § viii. 1906. DEVOTIONAL and Didactic WORKS. De Imitatione Christi. Ed. Ingram, J. K. E.E.T.S. Ex. Ser. LXIII. 1893. The early translation, mid-15th century, also version by Atkynson and the Lady Margaret. Gesta Romanorum. Translation, c. 1440. Wynkyn de Worde. 1524? Also ed. by Madden, Sir F., Roxburghe Club, 1838; Herrtage, S. J., E.E.T.S. Ex. Ser. xxxIII, 1879, with notes on manuscripts. On the whole subject, see Oesterley, H., Berlin, 1872, who discusses date of original compilation and considers it to be English. Hylton or Hilton, Walter. 1. Scala Perfectionis. 2. Devout Book to a temporal man. 3. Devout Treatise of the song of angels. Early editions by W. de Worde (1 and 2), 1494, 1519, 1525, 1533; Pynson (1 and 2), 1506, (3) 1521; Notary, Julian, 1507; modern editions by Cressy, S. (1 and 2), 1659; Guy, R. E. (1 and 2), London, Dublin and Derby, 1869 (good preface and notes); and Dalgairns, J. B., 1901, reprint of Cressy's text. See D. of N. B. for MSS; also Inge, W. B., Studies of English Mystics, 1905. Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love. First printed by Cressy, Dom S., 1670, reprinted 1845; modern editions by Warrack, Grace, 1901; and Tyrrell, Geo., S.J., 1902; also Collins, Hy., London and Derby, 1877. See Blomefield's Hist. Norfolk, iv, 81; Inge, W. R., Studies of English Mystics, 1905; Horstman's Introduction to R. Rolle of Hampole, 2 vols., 1895-6. Legenda Aurea. 15th century translation and additions. MSS: Brit. Mus. Add. 11,565, Harl. 4775 and others; Lambeth 72. See, on the whole subject and for specimens, Butler, Pierce, Legenda Aurea, Baltimore, 1899 (valuable); also Horstmann, C., Old English Legendary, E.E.T.S. LXXXVIL. Prymer (i.e. Prayer Book), c. 1400. Ed. Littlehales, H. 2 vols. 1891-2 CHRONICLES AND PAMPHLETS. Brut or Chronicle of England. Ed. Brie, F. E.E.T.S. 1906. English Chronicle, 1377-1461. Ed. Davies, J. S. Camden Soc. 1856. English Chronicle in Three 15th century Chronicles. Ed. Gairdner, J. Camden Soc. 1880. Commodities of England (before 1451) in the works of Sir John Fortescue. Ed. Clermont. Vol. I. Historical Collections of a London Citizen, for Gregory's Chronicle, etc. Ed. Gairdner, J. Camden Soc. 1876. Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. Ed. Bruce, J. Camden Soc. 1338. A valuable record. Lincolnshire, Rebellion in. Ed. Nichols, J. G. Camden Soc. Miscellany No. 1. 1847. St Albans, First Battle at. IV. Ed. Halliwell, J. O. Archaelogia, xx, 519. Bekynton, Correspondence of. the first thirteen years of the reign of Edward Camden Soc. 1839. LETTERS. Vol. I. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1872. Epistolae Academiae Oxon. Ed. Anstey, H. Oxford Historical Soc. 1898 |