Books in the Early English Text Society Supplementary Series series

This text contains notes and a glossary on and is intended for scholars and students of medieval literature and drama.

The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1976.

An edition of the forty Old English homilies which make up the first of the two series of Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric of Eynsham c. 990. A major work of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of his time.

The N-Town Cycle is one of the four extant Middle English cycles of mystery plays. A collection of unknown origin, it is composite and in many ways unique. Its 41 plays, dramatizing divine history from Creation to Doomsday, illustrate ways of reading, supplementing, and altering biblical accounts.

The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971.

The authoritative, standard text of this cycle of religious dramas, one of the great literary and theatrical monuments of the late Middle Ages in English. Volume 2 contains the Commentary and Glossary, incorporating the most recent scholarship.

The definitive scholarly edition of the York Plays, first published in 1982, and now reissued in a revised and updated edition, with full annotation and introduction, in two volumes. This volume includes the Introduction and Text, with an appendix containing the musical settings accompanying the plays.

Companion volume to SS 5 and SS 17, completing the set

The facsimile reproduces three manuscripts containing all of Thomas Hoccleve's known poetry except his Regiment of Princes (of which no autograph copy survives). It gives a rare opportunity to read the writings of a medieval English poet in copies made by the poet himself.

This edition of a difficult and neglected late Old English scientific text throws light on our knowledge of scientific scholarship in the 11th century. The text is accompanied by a full apparatus criticus and facing modern English translation, with glossaries of the Latin and Old English words.

This late thirteenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86, contains a personal anthology of nearly 100 texts in French, English and Latin, including secular literature, devotional material, and texts with practical applications, ranging from medical care for humans and birds to games and party tricks.

This Middle English poem of the late 14th or early 15th century is of Alexander the Great, the "Historia de Preliis", preserved in part in the two northern manuscripts and this book takes account of the readings, the relationship of the poem to its source and its metrical practice.

The Old English Canons of Theodore is one of the earliest handbooks of penance to appear in any West European vernacular. This edition situates the texts within the context of early penitential practice and social history, and provides a full bibliography and extensive commentary.