The Romance of Kyng Horn. To be edited from the
MS. in the Library of
the University of Cambridge.
Roberd of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne, a treatise
on the sins, and sketches
of the manners, of English
men and women in A.D. 1303. To be
re-edited from the MSS. in
the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries
by F. J. Furnivall, Esq.,
M.A.
Cursor Mundi, the best dialectal version. To
be edited from the MS. by
Richard Morris, Esq.
The History of the Saint Graal or Sank Ryal.
By Henry Lonelich, Skynner
(ab. 1440 A.D.). To be
re-edited from the unique MS. in the Library
of Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge,
by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A.
Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt, the most valuable
specimen of the
Kentish dialect, 1340 A.D.
To be edited from the MS. in the British
Museum by Richard Morris,
Esq.
Froissart’s Chronicles translated out of Frenche
into our maternall
Englyshe Tonge, by Johan Bourchier
Knight, Lord Berners. To be
edited by Henry B. Wheatley,
Esq.
Skelton’s Translation of Diodorus Siculus, oute
of freshe Latin, that is
of Poggius Florentinus, containing
six books. To be edited for the
first time from the unique
MS. in the Library of Corpus Christi
Coll., Cambridge.
Sir David Lyndesay’s Monarche. Edited by
Prof. Fitz-Edward Hall, D.C.L.,
from the first edition by
Jhone Skott.
Some of the earliest English Dictionaries, as—
Abecedarium Anglico-latinum,
by Richard Huloet (1552); and Baret’s
Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie,
to be edited from the editions of
1573 and 1580 by Henry B.
Wheatley, Esq.
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