The complete Harley 2253 Manuscript
By: edited and translated by Susanna Fein with David Raybin and Jan Ziolkowski
Contributors: Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages; British Library; British Library
Series: TEAMS ; Middle English texts series
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781580442053; 9781580441988; 9781580441995
Subjects: English literature; Anglo-Norman literature; Medieval and modern Latin literature; Middle Ages; Literary collections; Medieval Manuscripts; British Library
Other titles: Harley 2253 Manuscript
Description: "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." --
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, appendix, and indexes.

Multilingual text in Middle English, Anglo Norman, and Latin along with translations of each.