I ROBERT MANNYNG OF BRUNNE'S HANDLYNG SYNNE A.D. 1303 III MICHAEL OF NORTHGATE'S AYENBYTE OF INWYT A.D. 1340 IV RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE D. 1349. V SIR GAWAYNE AND THE GRENE KNIGHT ABOUT 1350-75. VII THE GEST HYSTORIALE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY A BOUT 1375 VIII PIERS PLOWMAN (1362-1400) B Y WILLIAM LANGLAND X THE BRUCE W RITTEN IN 1375 BY JOHN BARBOUR. XIII JOHN OF TREVISA'S TRANSLATION OF HIGDEN'S POLYCHRONICON 1387 XV MISCELLANEOUS PIECES IN VERSE XVI THE YORK PLAY 'HARROWING OF HELL' British Museum MS. Addit. 35290 (about 1430-40), f. 193 b. XVII THE TOWNELEY PLAY OF NOAH Towneley MS. (about 1475), ff. 76 ff. APPENDIX THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY CORRIGENDA To Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose edited by KENNETH SISAM Publisher's device OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M D CCCC XXI Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai Humphrey Milford Publisher to the UNIVERSITY PRINTED IN ENGLAND. Original spelling variants and punctuation have not been standardized. <Words> or l<e>tters enclosed in angle brackets < > are additions by the author to complete the manuscript; daggers †† indicate corrupt readings retained by the author. See also the Transcriber's Note at the end.A Middle English Vocabulary, designed for use with SISAM's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, by J. R. R. Tolkien is available at PG #43737. |