The complete Harley 2253 Manuscript

Folger bibliographic ID: 341285
Folger call number: PR1120 .C584 2014 vol. 2
Folger holdings ID: 492778

"The three volumes of MS Harley 2253 present a complete edition and translation of a fourteenth-century English manuscript that contains secular love lyrics, contemporary political songs, religious lyrics, fabliaux, saints' lives, and other literary treasures in Middle English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin. The volumes also offer explanatory and textual notes, indexes of first lines, manuscripts cited, and proper names, and bibliographies." --

General notes

Harley's contents are presented according to booklet structure; the grouping of seven booklets to make the Harley manuscript's full 140 leaves seems to have happened when the scribe was alive For the Latin texts, Jan Ziolkowski provided translations of those obscure works; for translations of French, David Raybin has been a collaborator; initially, there was another collaborator for the French portions of MS Harley 2253, Barbara Nolan, who before her death, had drafted English versions of some fabliaux, the translation of Gilote and Johane Includes bibliographical references and indexes Multilingual text in Middle English, Anglo Norman, and Latin along with translations of each

Extended title: The complete Harley 2253 Manuscript / edited and translated by Susanna Fein with David Raybin and Jan Ziolkowski
Alternate titles: Harley 2253 Manuscript

English literature Anglo-Norman literature Latin literature, Medieval and modern Middle Ages Manuscripts, Medieval British Library

subject: British Library
editor: Fein, Susanna, 1950-
translator: Raybin, David B., 1951-
translator: Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956-
associated with: Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
associated with: British Library