A Manual of the writings in Middle English, 1050-1500
By: by members of the Middle English Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
Contributors: Wells, John Edwin, 1875-1943.; Severs, Jonathan Burke,; Hartung, Albert E., 1923-; Modern Language Association of America. Middle English Group.
Publisher: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Bibliography
Genres: Bibliography
Notes: "Based upon A manual of the writings in Middle English. 1050-1400, by John Edwin Wells, New Haven, 1916, and supplements 1-9, 1919-1951."

Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Romances. 1967.; title: v. 2. The Pearl poet. Wyclyf and his followers. Translations and paraphrases of the Bible, and commentaries. Saints' legends. Instructions for religious. 1970.; title: v. 3. Dialogues, debates, and catechisms. Thomas Hoccleve. Malory and Caxton. 1972.; title: v. 4. Middle Scots writers. The Chaucerian apocrypha. 1973.; title: v. 5. Dramatic pieces. Poems dealing with contemporary conditions. 1975.; title: v. 6. Carols. Ballads. John Lydgate. 1980.; title: v. 7. John Gower. Piers Plowman. Travel and geographical writings. Works of religious and philosophical instruction. 1986; title: v.8. Chronicles and other historical writing; title: v.9. Proverbs, precepts and monitory pieces; English mmystical writings; tales; title: v.10. Encyclopedias : science, medicine; lapidaries : cookery and household books, technology, crafts, weights and measures, agriculture and veterinary medicine; heraldry; education - the teaching of French; the teaching of Latin, glosses, vocabularies, dictionaries; title: v.11. Middle English sermons and homilies and the lyrics of MS Harley 2253; title: v.12. Lyrics, letters, undistributed prose and poetry.