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An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts

An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts

Edited by

David Thomson

First published in 1984 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

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1984 by David Thomson

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ISBN 13: 978-0-367-19547-2 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-429-20308-4 (ebk)

An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts

Garland Medieval Texts
Number 8

Garland Medieval Texts

A.S.G. Edwards

General Editor

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An Edition of the Middle

English Grammatical Texts

Edited by David Thomson

An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts

edited by

David Thomson

Copyright 1984 by David Thomson

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An Edition of the Middle English grammatical texts.

(Garland medieval texts ; no. 8)

Includes bibliographical references.

1. English languageMiddle English, 11001500Grammar. 2. English languageMiddle English, 11001500Texts. I. Thomson, David, 1952 II. Series.

PE529.E31984427.0283-20717

ISBN 0-8240-9434-4

Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper

Manufactured in the United States of America

Contents

With this edition I have completed my initial purpose of making available a working text and guide to the context of a group of treatises which have so far not played their full part in the study of the late Middle Ages. The edition should be regarded as a companion volume to my Descriptive Catalogue of Middle English Grammatical Texts (Garland, New York and London, 1979), where full information on the manuscripts and matters of background to the treatises will be found. The treatment of these in the present volume is correspondingly brief, but I have included here a fuller account of the use of English in the treatises than was possible in the Catalogue where the texts themselves were not before the reader.

As always I owe a debt of gratitude to many friends and colleagues, but in particular to Professor Eric Dobson, Dr. Nicholas Orme, and to the late Dr. R. W. Hunt, of whose work this is but an echo.

A123 etc.	The texts are referred to by siglum and line number.
Bodl. Lib.	Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Brit. Lib.	British Library.
Catalogue	David Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of Middle English Grammatical Texts (New York and London, 1979).
C.U.L.	Cambridge University Library.
Doctrinale	D. Reichling (ed.), Das Doctrinale des Alexander de Villa-Dei, Monumenta Ger-maniae paedagogica xii (Berlin, 1893).
EETS, OS and ES	Early English Text Society, Original Series and Extra Series.
Graecismus	J. Wrobel (ed.), Eberhardi Bethuniensis Graecismus (Breslau, 1887).
Keil	H. Keil (ed.) Grammatici Latini, vols iiiv (Leipzig, 18551864).
Lewis and Short	C. T. Lewis and C. Short (ed.), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford, 1894).
MED	H. Kurath, S. M. Kuhn, and J. Reidy (ed.), Middle English Dictionary (Ann Arbor, 1952).
NLW	National Library of Wales.
OED	J. A. H. Murray, H. Bradley, W. A. Craigie and C. T. Onions (ed.), The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933).
OHS	Oxford Historical Society.
Pinborg	J. Pinborg, Die Entwicklung der Sprach-theorie im Mittelalter, Beitrge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters xlii.2 (Mnster, 1967).
STC2	W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, and K. F. Pantzer, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England 1475 1640, second edition, revised and enlarged (London, 1976).
Study	David Thomson, A Study of the Middle English Treatises on Grammar, D.Phil. thesis, Oxford, 1977.
Thurot	C. Thurot, Notices et extraits de divers manuscrits latins pour servir lhistoire des doctrines grammaticales au moyen ge. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothque impriale, xxii. 2 (Paris, 1868).

After the Norman Conquest, English fell out of use as the language of elementary instruction in Latin grammar, and no grammatical texts in Middle English survive from before the closing years of the fourteenth century. Ranulf Higden, who died c.1363, was still able to complain in his Polychronicon that pueri in scholis contra morem caeterarum nationum a primo Normannorum adventu, derelicto proprio vulgari, construere Gallice compelluntur.1 But by 1385, when John of Trevisa reached this passage in his translation of Higdens work, the situation was different, and Trevisa adds the following note of his own:

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