1871

Legends of the Holy
Holy Rood;

Symbols of the Passion

In Old English of the Eleventh, Fourteenth,
and Fifteenth Centuries.

EDITED FROM MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND
BODLEIAN LIBRARIES;

WITH INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATIONS, AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX,

Member of the Council of the Philological and Early English Text Societies.

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The Publications for 1865 and 1866 are out of print, but a separate subscription has been opened for their immediate reprint. The Texts for 1864 and all but three for 1865 have been reprinted. Subscribers who desire the Texts of all or any of these years should send their names at once to the Hon. Secretary, as several hundred additional names are required before the Texts for 1866 can be sent to press.

The Publications for 1864 (21s.) are:

1. Early English Alliterative Poems, ab. 1360
A.D., ed. R. Morris. 168.

2. Arthur, ab. 1440, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 4s.
3. Lauder on the Dewtie of Kyngis, etc., 1556,
ed. F. Hall. 4s.

4. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, ab. 1360,
ed. R. Morris. 10s.

The Publications for 1865 (21s.) are: 5. Hume's Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, ab. 1617, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 48.

6. Lancelot of the Laik, ab. 1500, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 88.

7. Genesis and Exodus, ab. 1250, ed. R. Morris. 8. Morte Arthure, ab. 1440, ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 9. Thynne on Chaucer's Works, ab. 1598, ed. Dr. Kingsley.

10. Merlin, ab. 1440, Part I., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 11. Lyndesay's Monarche, etc., 1552, Part I., ed. F. Hall.

12. Wright's Chaste Wife, ab. 1462, ed. F. J. F.

The Publications for 1866 are:

13. Seinte Marherete, 1200-1330, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne.

14. Kyng Horn, Floris and Blancheflour, etc., ed. Rev. J. R. Lumby.

15. Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall.

16. The Book of Quinte Essence, ab. 1460-70,
ed. F. J. Furnivall.

17. Parallel Extracts from Twenty-nine MSS. of
Piers Plowman, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat.
18. Hali Meidenhad, ab. 1200, ed. Rev.O. Cockayne.
19. Lyndesay's Monarche, Part II., ed. F. Hall.
20. Hampole's English Prose Treatises, ed. Rev.

G. G. Perry.

21. Merlin, Part II. ed. H. B. Wheatley.
22. Partenay or Lusignen, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat.
23. Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340, ed.
R. Morris.

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25. The Stacions of Rome. the Pilgrims' Seavoyage, with Clene Maydenhod, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1s.

26. Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse, from R. Thornton's MS., ab. 1440, ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 28.

27. Levins's Manipulus Vocabulorum, 1570, ed.
H. B. Wheatley. 12s.

28. William's Vision of Piers Plowman, 1362
A. D. Part I. The earliest or Vernon Text;
Text A., ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 6s.
29. Early English Homilies (ab. 1220-30 A.D.)
from unique MSS. in the Lambeth and
other Libraries. Part I., ed. R. Morris. 78.
30. Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, ed. Rev. W.
W. Skeat. 28.

The Publications for 1868 (21s.) are:
31. Myrc's Duties of a Parish Priest, in Verse,
ab. 1420 A.D., ed. E. Peacock. 4s.

32. The Babees Book, Urbanitatis, the Bokes of
Norture of John Russell and Hugh Rhodes,
the Bokes of Keruyng, Curtasye, and De-
meanour, etc., with some French and Latin
Poems on like subjects, ed. from Harleian
and other MSS. by F. J. Furnivall. 15s.
33. The Knight de la Tour Landry (from French
of 1372 A.D.), ab. 1440 A.D. A Father's
Book for his Daughters, ed. from Harl. MS.
1764 and Caxton's version, by T. Wright. 88.
34. Early English Homilies (before 1300 A.D.)
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other Libraries. Part II., ed. R. Morris. 8s.
35. Lyndesay's Works, Part III.: The Historie
and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, ed.
F. Hall. 2s.

The Publications for 1869 are:
36. Merlin, Part III., ed. Henry B. Wheatley;
with an Essay on Arthurian Localities, by
J. S. Stuart Glennie. 128.

37. Lyndesay's Works, Part IV., containing Ane
Satyre of the Three Estaits, ed. F. Hall. 4s.
William's Vision of Piers Plowman. Part II.
Text B. Edited from the MSS. by the Rev.
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39. The Alliterative Romance of the Destruction of Troy, translated from Guido de Colonna. Edited from the unique MS. in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by D. Donaldson, Esq., and the Rev. G. A. Panton. Part I. 10s. 6d.

Legends of the Holy Rood.

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