An Old English miscellany : containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century, from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, Jesus College library, etc. / edited with introduction and index of words by Richard Morris
Published
London : Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner, 1872
'A bestiary (p.1-25) comes from Arundel ms. 292 in the British museum, of about the middle of the thirteenth century. It is translated from the Latin Phuysiologus of Theobaldus... Old Kentish sermons (p. 26-36) are...a fragment...found...with their originals, the French sermons of Maurice de Sully, in a ms. in the Bodleian library, Laud, 471...From the Jesus college ms. [I. Arch. 29] Oxford, we have printed the pieces that constitute the bulk of the present volume'--Pref
Includes glossarial index
Middle English text, translated from the Latin or Middle French; introductory matter and notes
Issuing Body
The bestiary is translated from the Latin Physiologus of Theobaldus (reprinted p.201-209) and the Kentish sermon from the French of Maurice de Sully
