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This is a two-volume critical edition of a Middle English commentary on the Psalms based on a Late Version text of the Wycliffite Bible translation. The commentary takes the form of 1,363 shorter and longer glosses, variously interrelated, prepared by scholars sympathetic with the Wycliffite movement, and coordinated carefully with the Psalms text.
List of contents
- Volume I.
- List of Illustrations
- Manuscript Sigla
- Introduction
- I: The Glosses
- II: Description of the Base Manuscript
- Collation
- Binding
- Contents
- Handwriting and scribal practice
- Decoration
- Dialect, phrasing, and vocabulary
- Provenance
- III: Other Manuscripts containing B 554 Glosses
- Manuscripts containing only title glosses
- Manuscripts containing title glosses and other glosses
- Manuscripts containing other glosses but no title glosses
- Miscellaneous manuscripts
- IV: The Context of B 554
- V: Planning and Assembling B 554
- VI: Who Used B 554?
- VII: Editorial Method
- Bibliography
- The Glossed Psalter, Psalms 1-119
- Volume II.
- Texts, Psalms 120-150
- Textual Notes
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossary
About the author
Michael P. Kuczynski is Professor of English at Tulane University. He specializes in Middle English literary history and late medieval manuscripts, especially of the Psalms. His most recent research has been on the Middle English glosses to the Wycliffite Bible. He has published widely on Middle English poetry and prose, especially of a religious nature, and in such related areas as Old English poetry, medieval astronomy, the contemplative (mystical) life during the Middle Ages, and antiquarianism or the history of the scholarly recovery of the medieval past.
Summary
This is a two-volume critical edition of a Middle English commentary on the Psalms based on a Late Version text of the Wycliffite Bible translation. The commentary takes the form of 1,363 shorter and longer glosses, variously interrelated, prepared by scholars sympathetic with the Wycliffite movement, and coordinated carefully with the Psalms text.
