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Original and Extra Series Books, 1897-1900.
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April 1898. For this year the Original-Series Texts were issued in 1896. Those for
1899 are now ready. The texts of several other works are now printed. Members are askt
to send their two- or three-years’ subscriptions for both Series at once in advance.
For 1897, the Original-Series Texts are, No. 108, Child-Marriages and -Divorces, Troth-
plights, Adulteries, Affiliations, Libels, Wills, Miscellanea, Clandestine Marriages, Deposi-
tions in Trials in the Bishop’s Court, Chester, a.d. 1561-6, with Entries from the Chester
Mayors’ Books, 1558-1600, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall,—a most curious volume, full of the social
life of its time ;—and Part II of the Prymer or Lay-Folks’ Prayer-book, edited by Mr. Henry
Littlehales, with a Paper by Mr. Bishop on the Origin and Growth of the Prymer.
For 1897, the Extra-Series Texts are LXXI, The Towneley Plays, re-edited from the
unique MS. by Mr. George England, with sidenotes and Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard,
M.A. ; LXXII, Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes, a.d. 1411-12, with 14 Minor Poems, now first
assigned to Hoccleve, from the De Guilleville MS. Egerton 615, re-edited from the MSS. by
Dr. Furnivall; the latter forms Part III of Hoccleve’s Works ; LXXIII, Part II of Hoccleve’s
Works is Hoccleve’s Minor Poems II, from the Yates Thompson (late Ashburnham) MS., edited
by Mr. Israel Gollancz, M.A.
The Original-Series Texts for 1898 are Nos. 110, 111,—Part II, Sections 1 and 2, of Dr.
T. Miller’s Collations of Four MSS. of the Old-English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical
History.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1898 are No. LXXIV, Secreta Secretorum, 3 prose Englishings,
one by Jas. Yonge with interesting passages about Ireland, edited by Robert Steele, B.A.,
Part I; and No. LXXV, Miss Morrill’s edition of the Speculum Giiidonis in the Society’s
Guy-of-Warwick Series.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1899 ought to be the Second Part of the prose Romance of
Melusine—Introduction, with ten facsimiles of the best woodblocks of the old foreign black-
letter editions, Glossary, &c., by A. K. Donald, B.A., if he can be found; and a new edition
of the famous Early-English Dictionary (English and Latin), Promptorium Parvulorum, from
the Winchester MS., ab. 1440 a.d. : in this, the Editor, the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, M.A., will
follow and print his MS. not only in its arrangement of nouns first, and verbs second, under
every letter of the Alphabet, but also in its giving of the flexions of the words. The Society’s
edition will thus be the first modern one that really represents its original, a point on which
Mr. Mayhew’s insistance will meet with the sympathy of all our Members. But if neither of
these Texts is forthcoming in 1899, a substitute for it will be found in the probable 1900
Texts mentioned below.
The Original-Series Texts for 1899 will be No. 112, Merlin, Part IV, Prof. W. E. Mead’s
Outlines of the Legend of Merlin, with Glossary, &c., and No. 113, Queen Elizabeth’s Eng-
lishings of Boethius de Consolatione, Plutarch’s De Curiositate, and part of Horace, De Arte
Poetica, edited from the unique MS. (a portion in the Queen’s own hand) in the Public Record
Office, London, by the late Miss C. Pemberton, with a Facsimile, and a note on the Queen’s
use of i for long e. The Original-Series Texts for 1900 will be No. 114, Part IV (the last)
of Prof. Skeat’s edition of Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints; and No. 115, Jacob’s Well, a
quaint allegorical treatise on the cleansing and building-up of Man’s Conscience, edited from
the unique MS. in Salisbury Cathedral, by Dr. J. W. Brandeis, Part I.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1900 will be chosen from Mr. I. Gollancz’s re-edition of two
Alliterative Poems, Winner and Waster, &c., ab. 1360, just issued for the Roxburghe Club ;
Dr. Norman Moore’s re-edition of The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,
London, from the unique MS. ab. 1425, which gives an account of the Founder, Rahere, and
the miraculous cures wrought at the Hospital; or The Craft of Nombrynge, with other of
the earliest englisht Treatises on Arithmetic, edited by R. Steele, B.A., or Alexander Scott’s
Poems, 1568, from the unique Edinburgh MS., ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. ; or Miss Mary Bate-
son’s edition of George Ashby’s Active Policy of a Prince, &c., from the unique MS., a.d.
1463.
An urgent appeal is hereby made to Members to increase the list of Subscribers to the
E. E. Text Society. It is nothing less than a scandal that the Hellenic Society should have
nearly 1000 members, while the Early English Text Society has only about 300 !
The Original-Series Texts for 1901 and 1902 will be chosen from books already at press :
Part II of the Minor Poems of the Vernon MS., edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall; Mr. Gollancz’s
re-edited Exeter-Book—Anglo-Saxon Poems from the unique MS. in Exeter Cathedral-
Part II ; Dr. Bruce’s Introduction to The English Conquest of Ireland, Part II ; Dr.
Furnivall’s edition of the Lichfield Gilds, which is all printed, and waits only for the
Introduction, that Prof. E. C. K. Gonner has kindly undertaken to write for the book. Dr.
G. Herzfeld’s re-edition of the Anglo-Saxon Martyrology is all in type. Part II of Dr. Holt-
hausen’s Vices and Virtues needs only its Glossary.
3
April 1898. For this year the Original-Series Texts were issued in 1896. Those for
1899 are now ready. The texts of several other works are now printed. Members are askt
to send their two- or three-years’ subscriptions for both Series at once in advance.
For 1897, the Original-Series Texts are, No. 108, Child-Marriages and -Divorces, Troth-
plights, Adulteries, Affiliations, Libels, Wills, Miscellanea, Clandestine Marriages, Deposi-
tions in Trials in the Bishop’s Court, Chester, a.d. 1561-6, with Entries from the Chester
Mayors’ Books, 1558-1600, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall,—a most curious volume, full of the social
life of its time ;—and Part II of the Prymer or Lay-Folks’ Prayer-book, edited by Mr. Henry
Littlehales, with a Paper by Mr. Bishop on the Origin and Growth of the Prymer.
For 1897, the Extra-Series Texts are LXXI, The Towneley Plays, re-edited from the
unique MS. by Mr. George England, with sidenotes and Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard,
M.A. ; LXXII, Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes, a.d. 1411-12, with 14 Minor Poems, now first
assigned to Hoccleve, from the De Guilleville MS. Egerton 615, re-edited from the MSS. by
Dr. Furnivall; the latter forms Part III of Hoccleve’s Works ; LXXIII, Part II of Hoccleve’s
Works is Hoccleve’s Minor Poems II, from the Yates Thompson (late Ashburnham) MS., edited
by Mr. Israel Gollancz, M.A.
The Original-Series Texts for 1898 are Nos. 110, 111,—Part II, Sections 1 and 2, of Dr.
T. Miller’s Collations of Four MSS. of the Old-English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical
History.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1898 are No. LXXIV, Secreta Secretorum, 3 prose Englishings,
one by Jas. Yonge with interesting passages about Ireland, edited by Robert Steele, B.A.,
Part I; and No. LXXV, Miss Morrill’s edition of the Speculum Giiidonis in the Society’s
Guy-of-Warwick Series.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1899 ought to be the Second Part of the prose Romance of
Melusine—Introduction, with ten facsimiles of the best woodblocks of the old foreign black-
letter editions, Glossary, &c., by A. K. Donald, B.A., if he can be found; and a new edition
of the famous Early-English Dictionary (English and Latin), Promptorium Parvulorum, from
the Winchester MS., ab. 1440 a.d. : in this, the Editor, the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, M.A., will
follow and print his MS. not only in its arrangement of nouns first, and verbs second, under
every letter of the Alphabet, but also in its giving of the flexions of the words. The Society’s
edition will thus be the first modern one that really represents its original, a point on which
Mr. Mayhew’s insistance will meet with the sympathy of all our Members. But if neither of
these Texts is forthcoming in 1899, a substitute for it will be found in the probable 1900
Texts mentioned below.
The Original-Series Texts for 1899 will be No. 112, Merlin, Part IV, Prof. W. E. Mead’s
Outlines of the Legend of Merlin, with Glossary, &c., and No. 113, Queen Elizabeth’s Eng-
lishings of Boethius de Consolatione, Plutarch’s De Curiositate, and part of Horace, De Arte
Poetica, edited from the unique MS. (a portion in the Queen’s own hand) in the Public Record
Office, London, by the late Miss C. Pemberton, with a Facsimile, and a note on the Queen’s
use of i for long e. The Original-Series Texts for 1900 will be No. 114, Part IV (the last)
of Prof. Skeat’s edition of Aelfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints; and No. 115, Jacob’s Well, a
quaint allegorical treatise on the cleansing and building-up of Man’s Conscience, edited from
the unique MS. in Salisbury Cathedral, by Dr. J. W. Brandeis, Part I.
The Extra-Series Texts for 1900 will be chosen from Mr. I. Gollancz’s re-edition of two
Alliterative Poems, Winner and Waster, &c., ab. 1360, just issued for the Roxburghe Club ;
Dr. Norman Moore’s re-edition of The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,
London, from the unique MS. ab. 1425, which gives an account of the Founder, Rahere, and
the miraculous cures wrought at the Hospital; or The Craft of Nombrynge, with other of
the earliest englisht Treatises on Arithmetic, edited by R. Steele, B.A., or Alexander Scott’s
Poems, 1568, from the unique Edinburgh MS., ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. ; or Miss Mary Bate-
son’s edition of George Ashby’s Active Policy of a Prince, &c., from the unique MS., a.d.
1463.
An urgent appeal is hereby made to Members to increase the list of Subscribers to the
E. E. Text Society. It is nothing less than a scandal that the Hellenic Society should have
nearly 1000 members, while the Early English Text Society has only about 300 !
The Original-Series Texts for 1901 and 1902 will be chosen from books already at press :
Part II of the Minor Poems of the Vernon MS., edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall; Mr. Gollancz’s
re-edited Exeter-Book—Anglo-Saxon Poems from the unique MS. in Exeter Cathedral-
Part II ; Dr. Bruce’s Introduction to The English Conquest of Ireland, Part II ; Dr.
Furnivall’s edition of the Lichfield Gilds, which is all printed, and waits only for the
Introduction, that Prof. E. C. K. Gonner has kindly undertaken to write for the book. Dr.
G. Herzfeld’s re-edition of the Anglo-Saxon Martyrology is all in type. Part II of Dr. Holt-
hausen’s Vices and Virtues needs only its Glossary.