Medieval Studies

The Medieval Translator IV
Roger Ellis & Ruth Evans, editors
Essays addressing historical and cultural contexts, questions of gender, class, and national or ethnic identity, the character and function of translator and of reader, and language as a non-transparent medium.
1994 / 272 pages / 86698-128-4 / MR123 / $24 $12

Saints: Studies in Hagiography
Sandro Sticca, editor
These fifteen essays examine art, history, literature, and liturgy and explore such topics as sexuality, patronage, childhood and sanctity, desert saints, urban saints, royal saints, shrines, and relics.
1996 / 384 pages / illus. / 86698-179-9 / MR141 / $28 $14

The Medieval Book of Birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium
Willene B. Clark, editor and translator
The first modern critical edition and English translation of this mid-12th-century monastic text, the volume includes a monographic introduction providing a thorough study of the visual and textual traditions and is enriched by over 100 reproductions.
1992; repr. 1996 / 464 pages / illus. / 86698-091-1 / MR80 / $38 $19

Johannes de Alta Silva, Dolopathos, or The King and the Seven Wise Men
Brady B. Gilleland, translator
Earliest example of the western branch of The Seven Sages Cycle. First English translation.
1981 / 136 pages / 86698-001-6 / MR2 / $16 $8
Paper: 86698-006-7 / MR2p / $9 $3

The Medieval Gospel of Nicodemus: Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts in Western Europe
Zbigniew Izydorczyk, editor
The eleven essays are intended for scholars specializing in medieval literatures of Western Europe and in religious traditions, particularly in the transmission of apocryphal and legendary lore, as well as for textual scholars and comparatists.
1997 / 550 pages / 86698-198-5 / MR158 / $45 $30

Medieval Archaeology
Charles L. Redman, editor
Seventeen papers show how archaeological data can solve central interpretive problems.
1989 / 320 pages / 86698-044-X / MR60 / $24 $12

Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages
Francis X. Newman, editor
Five major essays explore various patterns of social unrest in late medieval Europe.
1986 / 160 pages / 86698-071-7 / MR39 / $20 $10

Oral Tradition in the Middle Ages
W. F. H. Nicolaisen, editor
The book addresses the question: how did oral tradition shape, influence, and help to create works of written literature in Old and Middle English? Contributors include Albert B. Lord, John Miles Foley, Carl Lindahl, and Joseph Falaky Nagy.
1995 / 240 pages / illus. / 86698-165-9 / MR112 / $24 $16

The Poems of Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus: Translation and Introduction
George W. Shea, translator
The first modern translation of the work of the 6th-century bishop of Vienne (one of Milton's probable models) makes accessible an author considerably significant to the social and intellectual history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
1997 / 168 pages / 86698-214-0 / MR172 / $24 $16

Anglo-Saxon and Celtic

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Dafydd ap Gwilym: The Poems
Richard Morgan Loomis, translator
The first complete English translation of the works by the great medieval Welsh poet.
1982 / 352 pages / 86698-015-6 / MR9 / $24 $8

Syntax and Style in Old English: A Comparison of the Two Versions of Waerferth's Translation of Gregory's Dialogues
David Yerkes
1982 / 112 pages / 86698-011-3 / MR5 / $24 $6

Middle English and Anglo-Latin

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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle poesye": Essays in Criticism
R. A. Shoaf, editor
The sixteen essays in this collection range widely in critical discourse and bear strong witness to the originality and richness of Chaucer's masterpiece.
1992 / 288 pages / 86698-150-0 / MR104 / $30 $15

Fortune's Stabilness: Charles of Orleans's English Book of Love: A Critical Edition
Mary-Jo Arn, editor
Awarded the Emblem of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the MLA. ". . . an expert and readable edition" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer ).
1994 / 640 pages / illus. / 86698-147-0 / MR138 / $45 $23

Robert Mannyng of Brunne, The Chronicle
Idelle Sullens, editor
". . . a great service to those interested in early English historiography" (Arthuriana ).
1996 / 920 pages / illus. / 86698-137-3 / MR153 / $60 $30

An Annotated Index to the Commentary on Gower's Confessio Amantis
Peter Nicholson
Entry and brief summary, by book and line, for every significant reference. The bibliography is the most complete available.
1989 / 608 pages / 86698-046-6 / MR62 / $40 $20

Johannis Wyclif Summa Insolubilium
Paul Vincent Spade & Gordon Anthony Wilson, editors
Logical and semantic problems ("Liar's Paradox"). Influential in formulating subsequent theories of semantic paradox.
1986 / 176 pages / 86698-074-1 / MR41 / $30 $6

Elias of Thirplow: Serium Senectutis
Roger Hillas, editor and translator
A facing-page translation of a Menippean satire in dialogue form, combining the style of Martianus Capella and the design of Boethius. ". . . the first English edition . . . a critical approach to the text with full apparatus" (Bulletin Codicologique ).
1995 / 312 pages / 86698-169-1 / MR116 / $32 $16

Medieval Literature: Texts and Interpretation
Tim William Machan, editor
Nine original essays on late Middle English literature focus on interrelations between textual and interpretive studies. All the major genres--romance, drama, the lyric--and major writers--Chaucer, Langland, Lydgate--are examined.
1991 / 208 pages / 86698-090-3 / MR79 / $24 $8

Richard Knapwell, Quaestio disputata de unitate formae: A Critical Edition
Francis E. Kelley, editor
A critical edition of this controversial work (c. 1285-1286).
1982 / 100 pages / paper / 86698-022-9 / MR15 / $25 $5

William of Malmesbury, Polyhistor: A Critical Edition
Helen Testroet Ouellette, editor
Excerpts and adaptations from the Malmesbury Abbey library.
1982 / 176 pages / 86698-017-2 / MR10 / $30 $6

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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English Language Scholarship: A Survey and Bibliography from the Beginnings to the End of the Nineteenth Century
Helmut Gneuss
A packed and valuable overview of the development of English linguistic scholarship, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 20th century. Rich bibliography on 71 topics. ". . . an extremely practical and lucid book"
--Henry Sweet Newsletter
1996 / 160 pages / 86698-130-6 / MR125 / $24 $16

Medieval and Renaissance Spanish

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The Medieval Theater in Castile
Charlotte Stern
The scope includes not only plays but pageants, processions, music, song, dance, pantomime, folk drama, and ritual, from a range of original sources: Latin treatises, encyclopedias, glossaries, papal decrees, synodal canons, penitentials, civil laws, chronicles, travelogues, municipal minutes, and pictorial arts from England, France, and Italy as well as Iberia.
1996 / 336 pages / 86698-196-9 / MR156 / $26 $16

El encanto es la hermosura y el hechizo sin hechizo: La segunda Celestina
Thomas Austin O'Connor, editor
". . . the very model of a modern pedagogical edition of a 17th-century comedia " (Bulletin of the Comediantes ).
1994 / 224 pages / 86698-135-7 / MR128 / $30 $15

Motif-Index of Medieval Catalan Folktales
Edward J. Neugaard, compiler
A comprehensive research tool for scholars interested in the development of short prose fiction in medieval Spain.
1993 / 160 pages / 86698-110-1 / MR96 / $22 $11

John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love: Versions A and B
Jane Ackerman, translator
". . . facing-page redactions with differences in boldface . . . an invaluable new tool" (Religious Studies Review ).
1995; repr. 1997 / 256 pages / 86698-143-8 / MR135 / $28 $14

Medieval Italian

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Merchant Culture in Fourteenth-Century Venice: The Zibaldone da Canal
John E. Dotson, translator
"Dotson is to be commended for his thorough-going edition/translation of this important fourteenth-century text. . ." (Renaissance Quarterly ).
1994 / 240 pages / 86698-112-8 / MR98 / $25 $13

Neo-Latin Acta

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Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Hafniensis
Rhoda Schnur, general editor; Ann Moss, Philip Dust, Paul Gerhard Schmidt, Jacques Chomarat, & Francesco Tateo, regional editors
Proceedings of the Eight International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Copenhagen 1991).
1994; repr. 1997 / 1,032 pages / 86698-173-X / MR120 / $80 $40

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Torontonensis
Alexander Dalzell, Charles Fantazzi, & Richard J. Schoeck, editors
Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress (Toronto 1988).
1991 / 896 pages / 86698-098-9 / MR86 / $60 $30

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Guelpherbytani
Stella Revard, Fidel Rädle, & Mario A. Di Cesare, editors
Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress (Wolfenbüttel 1985).
1988 / 720 pages / 86698-037-7 / MR53 / $60 $30

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Sanctandreani
I. D. McFarlane, editor
Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress (St. Andrews 1982).
1986 / 656 pages / 86698-070-9 / MR38 / $60 $30

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bononiensis
Richard J. Schoeck, editor
Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress (Bologna 1979).
1985 / 704 pages / 86698-072-5 / MR37 / $60 $30

Medieval and Renaissance French

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The Lyrics of Richard De Semilli: Critical Edition and Musical Transcription
Susan M. Johnson, editor
Complete 12th-century poetic works with their melodies in a modernized version. With full introduction and critical apparatus.
1992 / 112 pages / 86698-092-X / MR81 / $20 $5

Renaissance Masters Series: Rabelais
Michael J. Heath
Intended for a wide audience, this series presents consequential men and women of the Renaissance in concise, freshly interpreted studies by leading scholars.
1996 / 144 pages / 86698-181-0 / MR130 / $22 $16

Ronsard's Hymnes : A Literary and Iconographical Study
Philip Ford
The poems are placed in the intellectual context of Renaissance Europe, particularly Neoplatonism. The study is aimed at a wide academic audience, notably students and scholars specializing in Renaissance or French literature and art history.
1997 / 352 pages / illus. / 86698-197-7 / MR157 / $30 $20

Honoré d'Urfé, Astrea
Steven Rendall, translator
A pivotal work in the history of fiction, a summa of narrative forms, Astrea generated enormous enthusiasm among its first audience and offers moderns complex, 17th-century views of aristocracy, love, politics, history, geology, and astronomy.
1995 / repr. 1997 / 416 pages / 86698-142-X / MR134 / $30 $10

Christine de Pizan, Le livre du duc des vrais amans
Thelma S. Fenster, editor
A critical edition of her last courtly narrative, the poem stands out from Christine's corpus as an explicit criticism from a woman's perspective of the courtly adulterous paradigm, a view she only cautiously expresses in earlier works.
1995 / 224 pages / 86698-129-2 / MR124 / $24 $12

Transtextualities: Of Cycles and Cyclicity in Medieval French Literature
Sara Sturm-Maddox and Donald Maddox, editors
Stimulating essays on a range of topics, including the medieval cycle and the process of mapping a trope, the cyclicity and transtextual coherence in Chrétian de Troyes, cyclicity in the Lancelot-Grail cycle and in medieval French drama, and the genealogy of later medieval narrative cycles.
1996 / 216 pages / 86698-189-6 / MR149 / $24 $8

Michel Zink, Medieval French Literature, An Introduction
Jeff Rider, translator
Zink's book comprehensively and critically reviews and reforges what is currently known about medieval French literature and its development. Rider's translation will be useful for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
1995 / 184 pages / 86698-163-2 / MR110 / $25 $15

Jean du Tillet and the French Wars of Religion: Five Tracts, 1562-1569
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
As secretary and greffier civil (civil clerk) of the Parlement of Paris (1530B1570), Jean du Tillet reveals himself in these five treatises as a champion of the Catholic faith. This edition is directed at 16th-century history and Reformation scholars.
1994 / 248 pages / 86698-155-1 / MR108 / $25 $13

The Christian at Prayer: An Illustrated Prayer Manual Attributed to Peter the Chanter (d. 1197)
Richard C. Trexler
Peter's influence (fl. 1170B1190). Includes text, introduction, seven postures.
1987 / 264 pages / 86698-027-X / MR44 / $25 $13

Renaissance Studies

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Creative Imitation: New Essays on Renaissance Literature in Honor of Thomas M. Greene
David Quint, Margaret W. Ferguson, G. W. Pigman III, & Wayne A. Rebhorn, editors
Essays addressing the problems of rhetoric and imitation inherent in the legacy from humanism, feminist criticism and theory, and ways of exploring the relationship between literature and history, and the implications for representations of selfhood.
1992 / 456 pages / 86698-109-8 / MR95 / $36 $18

Reconsidering the Renaissance
Mario A. Di Cesare, editor
31 essays by Kristeller, M. Allen, Monfasani, Mirollo, ffolliott, Shoaf, et al. on subjects such as astrology, historiography, acting, spas, early bookmaking, music, witchcraft, gardens, popular religion, neopaganism, Neoplatonism, and homosexuality.
1992 / 544 pages / 86698-107-1 / MR93 / $40 $20

Ernesto Grassi, The Primordial Metaphor
Laura Pietropaolo and Manuela Scarci, translators
Examines the ontology of metaphor from the origins of sound, language, and mimesis, as well as in the work of Salutati, Freud, Leopardi, Pseudo-Longinus, Proust, and Novalis, culminating in a reading of Ecclesiastes from this perspective.
1994 / 160 pages / 86698-125-X / MR121 / $20 $5

G. A. Bredero, The Spanish Brabanter : A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Social Satire in Five Acts
H. David Brumble III, translator
The first English translation of Bredero's Spaanschen Brabander (1617), a bright satire epitomizing early Amsterdam.
1982 / 160 pages / 86698-018-0 / MR11 / $20 $5

Heidegger and the Question of Renaissance Humanism: Four Studies
Ernesto Grassi
Studies in Heideggerian philosophy, showing that basic theses on Being and beings, reason and language, poetry and philosophy were anticipated by Italian humanists.
1983 / 112 pages / 86698-062-8 / MR24 / $24 $6

Miscellanea Moreana: Essays for Germain Marc'hadour
Clare M. Murphy, Henri Gibaud, & Mario A.Di Cesare, editors
Twenty-fifth anniversary volume of Moreana.
1989 / 608 pages / 86698-045-8 / MR61 / $50 $20

Renaissance Masters Series: Janus Secundus
David Price
One of the most significant and enduring Renaissance Latin erotic poets.
1996 / 128 pages / 86698-180-2 / MR143 / $22 $11

Persons in Groups: Social Behavior as Identity Formation in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Richard C. Trexler, editor
Eighteen papers define the major approaches to the subject.
1985 / 272 pages / 86698-069-5 / MR36 / $24 $12

Renaissance Dialectic and Renaissance Piety: Benet of Canfield's Rule of Perfection: A Translation and Study
Kent Emery, Jr., editor
First English translation; introduction includes discussion of Benet and Neoplatonic theology.
1987 / 328 pages / 86698-034-2 / MR50 / $30 $8

Place and Displacement in the Renaissance
Alvin Vos, editor
12 essays address the concept of physical places as symbolic domains; they pay particular attention to popular culture and contemporary visual representations. "In this handsome and well-illustrated volume . . . Vos and his authors have given us an array of challenging ideas to ponder and some models to emulate" (Sixteenth Century Journal).
1995 / 320 pages / 86698-139-X / MR132 / $25 $13

Renaissance Humanism: Studies in Philosophy and Poetics
Ernesto Grassi
Concludes Grassi's dialogue with Heidegger: the philosophical import of humanism in Salutati, Bruni, Valla, Alberti, Landino, Poliziano, Pontano, Vives, and Erasmus.
1988 / 168 pages / 86698-035-0 / MR51 / $24 $8

Italian Renaissance

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Dante in America: The First Two Centuries
A. Bartlett Giamatti, editor
Essays ranging from John Chipman Gray's review (1813) to Robert Fitzgerald on Binyon's translation.
1983 / 432 pages / 86698-059-8 / MR23 / $36 $12

Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder: The Humanist as Orator
John M. McManamon, S.J.
"An important book . . . will change the way scholars approach humanism in the early fifteenth century" (Catholic History Review ).
1996 / 240 pages / 86698-204-3 / MR163 / $26 $18

Filippo Beroaldo the Elder, Annotationes Centum: Critical Edition with Commentary
Lucia A. Ciapponi, editor
The first critical edition of Beroaldo's miscellany and a study of its relationship to Poliziano's Miscellaneorum centuria prima and humanist philology in general, the correcting and interpreting of classical texts.
1995 / 192 pages / 86698-138-1 / MR131 / $28 $14

Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta :
A Verse Translation
James Wyatt Cook, translator; Germaine Warkentin, introduction
"Cook's translation into English blank verse captures the moods, tones, and variety of Petrarch's own verses. . . a truly admirable feat" (Konrad Eisenbichler, Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto).
1995 / 464 pages / 86698-191-8 / MR151 / $30 $15

The Orlando Furioso : A Stoic Comedy
Clare Carroll
A range of intertexts, both Latin and Italian, place the poem in its intellectual context.
1997 / 256 pages / 86698-215-9 / MR174 / $26 $13

Torquato Tasso: Creation of the World
Joseph Tusiani, translator
Tasso's encyclopedic poem Mondo Creato, his last work.
1982 / 272 pages / 86698-019-9 / MR12 / $20 $10

English Renaissance

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Robert Knightley, Alfrede or Right Reinthron'd : A Translation of William Drury's Aluredus sive Alfredus
Albert H. Tricomi, editor
This translation by Knightley (1659/60) of one of the rare 17th-century plays to depict a Catholic saint shows one way the English Catholic community sustained itself.
1993 / 176 pages / 86698-113-6 / MR99 / $30 $8

Shakespeare's English Histories: A Quest for Form and Genre
John W. Velz, editor
Resisting the New Historical reduction of representations of the past to politics and ideology, the volume recovers the dramaturgical aesthetics of these plays. Suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students.
1996; repr. 1997 / 280 pages / 86698-140-3 / MR133 / $25 $13

Bishop Joseph Hall and Protestant Meditation in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of The Art of Divine Meditation (1606) and Occasional Meditations (1663)
Frank Livingstone Huntley, editor
1981 / 232 pages / 86698-000-8 / MR1 / $20 $8
Paper: 86698-005-9 / MR1p / $9 $4

A Choice Ternary of English Plays: Gratiae Theatrales (1662)
William M. Baillie, editor
Three Renaissance plays of considerable social interest--Thorny Abbey, The Marriage Broker, and Grim the Collier of Croydon.
1984 / 320 pages / 86698-054-7 / MR26 / $24 $8

Lord Herbert of Chirbury: Pagan Religion
John Butler, translator
The first English translation since 1705, the book contains notes on Herbert's sources, informed discussion of his speculations, and a complete bibliography of one of the most radical religious writers of the 17th century.
1996 / 384 pages / 86698-193-4 / MR152 / $30 $15

Richard Hooker

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Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,Volume VI, Parts I and II (2 volumes)
W. Speed Hill, general editor
The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker. ". . . a permanent landmark in the study of Hooker" (Bibliographical Society of America ); "a splendid accomplishment" (Renaissance Quarterly ).
1993 / 2 vols. / 1,296 pages / 86698-152-7 / MR106 / $75 $50

Richard Hooker and the Construction of Christian Community
Arthur Stephen McGrade, editor
20 essays by noted scholars including Bouwsma, Collinson, Hill, Schoeck, Secor, Shuger, Vickers, etc.
1997 / 440 pages / 86698-206-X / MR165 / $32 $24

John Milton

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Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and His World
P. G. Stanwood, editor
Key studies on prophecy, gender, politics, and other specific topics by Martz, Leonard, J.M. Evans, Wilding, Hale, Rajan, Radzinowicz, Revard, Mueller, etc. Belongs on every Miltonist's shelf.
1995; repr. 1997 / 368 pages / 86698-131-4 / MR126 / $24 $12

Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradictions
Mario Di Cesare, editor
Winner of the Irene Samuel Memorial Award from the Milton Society of America. "The collection stands out well above most such books" (Seventeenth Century News ).
1991 / 616 pages / 86698-103-9 / MR90 / $40 $20

A Scripture Index to John Milton's De Doctrina Christiana
Michael Bauman, compiler
Identifies more than 9,000 biblical quotations and allusions. The Index is keyed to both the Yale and Columbia editions.
1989 / 184 pages / 86698-076-8 / MR67 / $18 $9

Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992
Edward Jones
The bibliography of choice for advanced research on the sonnets.
1994; repr. 1997 / 160 pages / 86698-127-6 / MR122 / $20 $10

A Fine Tuning: Studies of the Religious Poetry of Herbert and Milton
Mary A. Maleski, editor
A spirited collection of essays, both traditional and contemporary, on the poetry of Herbert and Milton.
1989 / 336 pages / 86698-048-2 / MR64 / $32 $10

Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700
John T. Shawcross, compiler
This book and the Addenda (MR30A) constitute the standard reference work for all Miltonists. Over 2,100 entries.
1984 / 464 pages / 86698-064-4 / MR30 / only sold with MR30A (below); price for both: $36 $12

Milton: A Bibliography for the Years, 1624-1700: Addenda and Corrigenda
John T. Shawcross, compiler
All pertinent items published since 1984.
1990 / 40 pages / paper / 86698-081-4 / MR30A / sold as a set with MR 30 (above) or separately: $7 $2

Renaissance English Text Society

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George Herbert, The Temple: A Diplomatic Edition
Mario A. Di Cesare, editor
Awarded the Emblem of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the MLA. ". . . it by rights should take primacy of place among all prior editions of The Temple as the text to quote" (George Herbert Journal ).
1995 / 544 pages / illus. / 86698-038-5 / MR54 / $36 $18

New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985-1991
W. Speed Hill, editor
Topics include the theory and practice of transcription, editing women writers and their letters, New Historicism and editing, and editing poetical miscellanies. "Deserves the attention of would-be and active editors [and] graduate students . . . to inform them of the wide range of editing that exists in the field, and its methodological and theoretical variety" (Bibliographical Society of America ).
1993 / 320 pages / 86698-153-5 / MR107 / $25 $13

Thomas Moffet, The Silkewormes and Their Flies : A Facsimile (1599)
Victor Houliston, editor
This edition presents the first English georgic (1599) on the methods and rewards of sericulture, by Elizabethan physician and entomologist Thomas Moffet.
1989 / 144 pages / 86698-040-7 / MR56 / $22 $7

The Vocacyon of Johan Bale
Peter Happé & John N. King, editors
Bale's autobiographical account of his appointment as bishop of Ossory in Ireland.
1990 / 160 pages / 86698-079-2 / MR70 / $24 $8

The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198
Jean Klene, C.S.C., editor
". . . now it is only a matter of time before at least some of Lady Ann Southwell's poetry will make its way into Renaissance anthologies. This edition will provide a sound basis for that" (Bulletin Codicologique ). Winner of the 1998 Josephine A. Roberts Award for the Best Edition (The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women).
1997 / 256 pages / illus. / 86698-187-X / MR147 / $30 $20

An Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions
Sidney Gottlieb, editor
"A real treasure . . . a beautifully bound, generously laid out, and carefully researched volume. The notes are valuable [and] will help teachers looking for ways to integrate Collins into the curriculum" (Seventeenth Century News).
1996 / 160 pages / 86698-202-7 / MR161 / $20 $15

Earlier RETS Volumes Distributed by MRTS:

Thomas Watson's Latin Amyntas (1585) and Abraham Fraunce's Translation of The Lamentations of Amyntas (1587)
Franklin M. Dickey & W. F. Staton, Jr., editors
1967 / 120 pages / MRET2 / $20 $5

Erasmus, Funus & The Epicure
Robert A. Allen, editor
1969 / 120 pages / 226-21483-4 / MRET3 / $20 $5

Thomas Rogers, Leicester's Ghost
Franklin B. Williams, Jr., editor
1972 / 120 pages / 262-72372-0 / MRET4 / $20 $5

R. I., The Most Pleasant History of Tom a Lincolne
Richard Hirsch, editor
1978 / 144 pages / 87249-358-X / MRET7 / $25 $5

George Cavendish, Metrical Visions
A. S. G. Edwards, editor
1980 / 256 pages / 87249-391-1 / MRET9 / $25 $5

Renaissance Texts Series
(Co-published with the Renaissance Society of America)

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Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna: Dialogue between Giovanni and a Letter
Helen Lanneau Eaker, editor and translator; Benjamin G. Kohl, introduction
Early humanist discussions of the religious calling; text and translation portray a major church leader at the time of the Great Schism.
1989 / 208 pages / 86698-043-1 / MR59 / $22 $7

Robert Burton, Philosophaster
Connie McQuillen, editor and translator
A topical satire on 17th-century education, this edition of Burton's university drama "provides a perceptive apparatus, the Latin text, and a fast-paced translation" (Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 ).
1993 / 240 pages / 86698-123-3 / MR103 / $25 $13

Bartolomeo Scala: Humanistic and Political Writings
Alison Brown, editor

Sheds light on the government of Florence under the Medici and on the development of humanism during the 15th century. "The documents chronicle the rise to power of a remarkable man. . . . [T]he material edited here, virtually all of Scala's extant writings, . . . merits study" --Neo-Latin News

1997 / 608 pages / illus. / 86698-199-3 / MR159 / $60 $40

Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation of the Intercenales
David Marsh, translator
A first reconstruction of the original text, together with a lively translation.
1987 / 288 pages / 86698-028-8 / MR45 / $25 $8

Robert Wakefield: On the Three Languages (1524)
G. Lloyd Jones, editor and translator
Wakefield's Oratio de laudibus et utilitate trium linguarum (Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic along with Latin); substantial introduction, detailed commentary.
1989 / 272 pages / 86698-077-6 / MR68 / $30 $15

Renaissance Triumphs and Magnificences

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Maurice Scève: The Entry of Henri II into Lyon, September 1548
Richard Cooper, editor
Elegant facsimile of the 1549 edition including woodcuts, as well as an Italian version and unpublished accounts from contemporary diplomatic dispatches.
1997 / 328 pages / 86698-200-0 / MR160 / $36 $18

John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passage through the City of London and His Coronation (1662)
Ronald Knowles, editor
1988 / 288 pages / 86698-026-1 / MR43 / $32 $10

1598: A Year of Pageantry in Late Renaissance Ferrara
Bonner Mitchell, editor
Facsimile of rare primary sources: six entries, along with five different printed accounts and separately published engravings.
1990 / 176 pages / 86698-080-6 / MR71 / $24 $12

Harvard Library Catalogues

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A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library
James E. Walsh
An essential reference tool. Meticulously prepared entries include (besides standard bibliographical features) such elements as marginalia, bookplates, illuminations, and imperfections, as well as contents, variants, and cross-references to other catalogues.

Volume II, Books Printed in Rome and Venice
1993; repr. 1997 / 702 pages / 86698-111-X / MR97 / $60 $30

Volume III, Books Printed in Italy with the Exception of Rome and Venice
1994; repr. 1997 / 432 pages / 86698-174-8 / MR119 / $50 $25

Volume IV, Books Printed in France, the Netherlands, the Iberian Peninsula, England, and Montenegro, Hebraica, and Supplementary Entries
1996 / 368 pages / 86698-190-X / MR150 / $45 $23

Volume V, A Brief History of the Collection and Cumulative Indices
1997 / 504 pages / 86698-212-4 / MR171 / $45 $23

Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Houghton Library Volume I, MSS Latin 3-179
Laura Light
This major collection of approximately 850 mss dating from the 9th to the 15th centuries has had no modern or complete catalogue until now. Entries describe all aspects of each ms.
1995; repr. 1997 / 448 pages / illus. / 86698-185-3 / MR145 / $40 $20

Rare Book and Manuscript Catalogues

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Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Barbara Shailor
Detailed entries including incipits, parchment and watermarks, scribes, scripts, and provenance.

Volume II, MSS 251-500
1987 / 656 pages / 86698-030-X / MR48 / $55 $30

Volume III, Marston Manuscripts
1992 / 750 pages / 86698-115-2 / MR100 / $60 $30

Libri Pertinentes Series

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The Library of Lord George Douglas (ca. 1667/8-1693): An Early Donation to the Advocates Library
W. A. Kelly, editor
Includes an introductory essay and an index of authors. References 840 books.
1997 / 178 pages / 86698-221-3 / MR179 (LP no. 5) / paper / $20 $10

A Wittenberg University Library Catalogue of 1536
Sachiko Kusukawa, editor
"An essential reference point both for further work on the University of Wittenberg and its library, and for the intellectual history of the Reformation" (Ecclesiastical History ).
1995 / 304 pages / illus. / 86698-182-9 / MR142 (LP no. 3) / $30 $10

Major Reference Series

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Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists
R. J. Fehrenbach, general editor; E. S. Leedham-Green, editor in the United Kingdom

". . . offers potential every bit as great as the STC" --The Book Collector

"More volumes of PLRE are eagerly awaited" --Times Literary Supplement

"An invaluable working tool" --Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

Volume I, PLRE 1-4
Describes 1,387 books in four libraries (Bishop Richard Cox, Sir Edward Stanhope, Sir Roger Townshend, and Sir Edward Dearing).
1992 / 352 pages / 86698-099-7 / MR87 / $30 $15

Volume II, PLRE 5-66
Volumes 2-7 inventory approximately 9,000 books in the libraries of 166 scholars and privileged persons at Oxford between 1507 and 1653.
1993 / 320 pages / 86698-151-9 / MR105 / $30 $15

Volume III, PLRE 67-86
1994 / 320 pages / 86698-170-5 / MR117 / $30 $15

Volume IV, PLRE 87-112
1995 / 384 pages / 86698-188-8 / MR148 / $30 $15

Later volumes will include book lists of men and women socially, economically, and educationally different from those represented in the earlier volumes. Information has been compiled from manuscript sources (account books, wills, probate records) and includes summary biographical and bibliographical data for each collection.