BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE NOTES, etc.
The following is a list of some of the principal books referred to in the Notes or elsewhere, as being serviceable for the explanation of Chaucer. I omit several that are but rarely mentioned, and are, at the same time, sufficiently indicated. Some are included of which I have made but little use.
The abbreviation 'E. E. T. S.' signifies the Early English Text Society; the abbreviation 'C. S.' signifies the Camden Society; and 'Ch. S.' signifies the Chaucer Society.
Agrippa, H. C.; De Occulta Philosophia; Coloniae, 1533; folio.
Albertani Brixiensis Liber Consolationis; ed. Thor Sundby. Ch. S., 1873.
Alexander; see King; and see Wars and Weber.
Alliterative Poems, ed. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1864; reprinted, 1869.
Ancren Riwle, ed. Jas. Morton; C. S., 1873.
Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie; ed. R. P. Wülker. Halle, 1878-94. I here note the principal articles on Chaucer:—
I. 38, 186; on the Miller's Tale.
II. 135; on the Miller's Tale.
II. 532; on the Ch. Soc. Publications (Koch).
III. 179; on the Parson's Tale and Minor Poems (Koch).
III. 554; on Ward's Life of Chaucer (Koch).
IV. 238; 'Nun-Chaplain' (Furnivall).
IV. 44 (Appendix); Minor Poems (Schröer).
IV. 93 (Appendix); Minor Poems (Koch).
V. 313; Legend of Good Women (Bech).
V. 130 (Appendix); Eilers, on the Parson's Tale (Koch).
V. 138 (Appendix); Ch. Prologue, ed. Zupitza (Koch).
VI. 105; note on Prol. 459 (Koch).
VI. 80 (Appendix); Troilus (Koch).
VI. 91 (Appendix); Book of the Duchesse (Koch).
VII. 116; Miller's Tale.
VII. 24 (Appendix); House of Fame, ed. Willert (Koch); 203 (Willert).
VII. 155 (Appendix); Sources of the Merchant's Tale (Varnhagen).
VIII. 453; four short notes; Prol. and Kn. Tale.
VIII. 154 (Appendix); Essays on Chaucer (review by Koch).
XII. 532; The Present Tense in Chaucer (Gräf).
XIII. 174; Jerome against Jovinian; Epistola Valerii; Dante (Köppel).
XIII. 363 (a note).
XIV. 77, 147; Man of Law's Tale (Lücke).
XIV. 227; St. Cecile; Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione; J. de Meun (Köppel).
XVI. 261; Miller's Tale.
XVI. 264; Ho. Fame, 1227.
Annals of England; Oxford and London, 1876.
Ashmole, E., Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. London, 1652.
Audelay's Poems, ed. J. O. Halliwell; Percy Soc., 1844.
Ayenbite of Inwyt, by Dan Michel of Northgate; ed. R. Morris, E. E. T. S., 1866.
Babees Book; ed. F. J. Furnivall, E. E. T. S., 1868.
Ballerstedt (Erich); über Chaucers Naturschilderungen. Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungs- und Quellengeschichte des Dichters. Göttingen, 1891.
Barbour, J., The Bruce; ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1870-7.
Barclay's Ship of Fools, ed. T. H. Jamieson; 2 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1874.
Baret's Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie; London, 1580.
Batman vppon Bartholomè, his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum. London, 1582, folio.
Bech, M.; Quelle und Plan der Legende of Good Women; in Anglia, vol. v. pp. 313-382.
Bell, R.; Works of Chaucer, in 4 vols. Revised edition; London, 1878.
Bennewitz, C. J., dissertation on Sir Thopas; Halle, 1879.
Beryn, The Tale of; ed. F. J. Furnivall; Ch. S., 1876.
Beves of Hamptoun, Sir; ed. E. Kölbing; E. E. T. S., 1885-6.
Bible Word-book; see Wright.
Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis. Auctoritate edita. Parisiis, 1872.
Blount, Tho.; Nomolexicon, a Law Dictionary; 2nd ed. London, 1691.
Boccaccio, G.; Il Decameron; 2 vols. Milano, 1886.
—— Il Teseide; Milano, 1819.
—— Il Filostrato; in the Opere Volgari di G. B.; Firenze, 1832.
—— Amorosa Visione; in the same.
Böddeker, K.; Altenglische Dichtungen des MS. Harl. 2253; Berlin, 1878.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae; ed. T. Obbarius, Jena, 1843.
Also ed. Renatus Vallinus, Lugd. Batavorum, 1656.
—— Chaucer's translation of, ed. R. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1878.
—— the same, ed. F. J. Furnivall; Ch. S., 1886.
And see Stewart.
Boke of St. Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners [and others]; ed. W. Blades, London, 1881. (Reprint of ed. 1486.)
Brae, A. E.; Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe; London, 1870.
Brand, John, M. A.; Observations on Popular Antiquities; ed. H. Ellis. In 3 vols. (in Bonn's Antiq. Library); London, 1848.
British Poets; ed. A. Chalmers; London, 1810. (In 21 vols.; vol. 1 contains Chaucer's Works, and all the other works formerly published along with them.)
Burguy, G. F.; Grammaire de la Langue D'Oil; 2me ed. Berlin and Paris, 1870. (In 3 vols. Vol. iii. contains an excellent O. F. Glossary.)
Burton, Robert; The Anatomy of Melancholy; 13th ed. 2 vols. London, 1827.
Butler, Alban; Lives of the Saints. 2 vols. Dublin, 1833.
Butler, S.; Hudibras; ed. A. Milnes; 2 vols. London, 1883.
Cary, H. F.; tr. of Dante; new ed. London, 1850.
Catholicon Anglicum, dated 1483; ed. S. J. Herrtage; E. E. T. S., 1881.
Cato, Dionysius; Disticha Moralia. (Various editions.)
Caxton, W.; The Golden Legende (reprinted by W. Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 3 vols. 1892).
Century Dictionary, The; 6 vols. New York and London, 1889-91.
Chambers, R.; The Book of Days. 2 vols. London and Edinburgh, 1864.
Chaucer, editions of;
see Bell, British Poets, Gilman, Morris, Speght, Stowe, Thynne, Tyrwhitt, Urry, Wright;
also Corson (Legend of Good Women); Koch (Minor Poems).
Chaucer Society's Publications.
Chester Plays, ed. T. Wright. Shak. Soc., 1843-7.
Child, F. J.; Observations on the Language of Chaucer. In the Memoirs of the American Academy, New Series, vol. viii. pp. 445-502; 1862.
Complaint of Scotland, the; re-edited by Dr. J. A. H. Murray. E. E. T. S., 1872-3.
Corson, Hiram; an edition of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; with notes; Philadelphia, 1864.
Cotgrave, Randle; A French and English Dictionary; London, 1660. (Not an early edition.)
Court of Love; a poem first printed by Stowe, with Chaucer's Works; 1561.
Coventry Mysteries; ed. J. O. Halliwell; Shak. Soc. 1841.
Cowel, Dr.; The Interpreter of Words and Terms; continued by T. Manley; London, 1701.
Cromie, H.; Ryme-Index to the Ellesmere MS. of the Canterbury Tales; Ch. S., 1875.
Cuckoo and the Nightingale, the; printed with Chaucer's Works, ed. Thynne, 1532;
also in ed. 1542, 1550, 1561.
Cursor Mundi; ed. Dr. R. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1874-92.
Cutts, Rev. E. L.; Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages. London, 1872.
Dante; La Commedia di Dante Alighieri, ed. Brunone Bianchi; Firenze, 1857.
Deschamps, Eustache; Œuvres inédites; ed. P. Tarbé; Reims and Paris, 1849.
[A later edition for the Société des Anciens Textes Français; Paris, 1878-87.]
Dictionary; see New and Century.
Dodsley, R.; Old English Plays. 4th edition; by W. Carew Hazlitt. 15 vols. 8vo. London, 1874.
Douglas, Gawain, Works of; ed. J. Small; 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1874.
Dryden, J.; Poetical Works; London, E. Moxon, 1876.
Ducange; Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis; ed. L. Favre; Niort and London, 1884-7.
Dunbar, W.; Poems of, ed. J. Small, completed by W. Gregor; Scottish Text Society; Edinburgh, 1883-93.
Dunlop, John; The History of Fiction. 3rd ed. London, 1845.
Düringsfeld, Ida von; Sprichwörter der Germanischen und Romanischen Sprachen. 2 vols. 1872-5.
Early English Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall; Philological Society; London, 1862.
Early English Text Society's publications.
Eilers, Dr. W.; Dissertation on the Parson's Tale (English version); in Essays on Chaucer; Ch. S., 1884.
Ellis, A. J.; On Early English Pronunciation; published for the Phil. Soc., E. E. T. S., and Ch. S., London, 1869-89.
English Dialect Society's publications (marked E. D. S.).
English Gilds, ed. Toulmin Smith (E. E. T. S.); London, 1870.
Englische Studien, ed. Dr. E. Kölbing; contains numerous important articles; some of which I here note:—
I. 215; on Chaucer's Second Nonnes Tale (Kölbing).
II. 94, 321; on Gamelyn (F. Lindner).
II. 528; on the Knightes Tale (Kölbing).
III. 209; on the House of Fame (A. Rambeau).
IX. 111; on Gamelyn (F. Lindner).
IX. 240; Reeve's Tale (H. Varnhagen).
XI. 163; Rom. Rose (F. Lindner).
XI. 495; on Sir Thopas (Kölbing).
XII. 161; on the Squieres Tale (wrong).
XII. 469; on the date of the C. T. (wrong).
XIII. 1; on the Squieres Tale (G. L. Kittredge).
XIII. 528; Rom. Rose (Kaluza).
XIV. 1; on Caxton's print of Boethius (Kellner).
XV. 399; Minor Poems; Legend; House of Fame (Koch).
XVI. 273; The Prologue (Kölbing).
XVII. 189; dates of Chaucer's poems (Köppel).
XVIII. 104, 106; on the Romaunt.
Essays on Chaucer; Ch. S.
Fabyan's Chronicles; ed. H. Ellis. 4to. London, 1811.
Fairholt, F. W., Costume in England; ed. H. A. Dillon; 2 vols. London, 1885.
Florio, Iohn; a Worlde of Wordes (An Italian and English Dictionary); London, 1598.
Flower and the Leaf, The; a poem first printed by Speght in 1598.
Francis, H. T.; The Vedabbha Jātaka; translated from the Pali, and compared with Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. With Introduction and Notes. Cambridge, 1884.
Freudenberger (Markus). Ueber das Fehlen des Auftakts in Chaucers heroischem Verse (Erlanger Beiträge, iv). 8vo. Erlangen, 1889.
Froissart's Chronicles; translated by Thos. Johnes. 2 vols. London, 1839.
Furnivall, F. J.; Trial Forewords to the Minor Poems. Ch. S., 1871.
—— Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition. Ch. S., 1868.
Gamelyn, The Tale of, ed. Skeat; Oxford, 1884.
Gawayn and the Grene Knight, ed. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1864; reprinted, 1869.
Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy; ed. Panton and Donaldson; E. E. T. S., 1869-74.
Gesta Romanorum; ed. C. Swan; revised by W. Hooper; London, 1877.
Gibbon, E.; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; 2 vols. London, Virtue and Co.; no date.
Gilman, A.; Chaucer's Poetical Works. 3 vols. Boston, 1879.
Godefroy, F.; Dictionnaire de l'ancienne Langue Française; 8 vols. Paris, 1881-94.
Golding, Arthur; translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses; London, 1603.
Gorra, E.; Testi Inediti di Storia Trojana; Turin, 1887.
Gower, Confessio Amantis, ed. Pauli; 3 vols. London, 1857.
Guy of Warwick, ed. J. Zupitza; E. E. T. S., 1876-86.
Haeckel, W.; Das Sprichwort bei Chaucer (Erlanger Beiträge, viii). 8vo. Erlangen, 1890.
Hales, John W.; Folia Litteraria; London, 1893.
Halliwell, J. O.; A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words. 2 vols. 5th edition; London, 1865.
Hampole, R. Rolle de; The Pricke of Conscience, ed. Morris; Phil. Soc. London, 1863.
Havelok the Dane, ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1868.
Hazlitt, W. C.; Early Popular Poetry of England; 4 vols. London, 1864.
—— English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases; London, 1869.
And see Dodsley and Warton.
Hendyng, The Proverbs of; printed in Specimens of English, ed. Morris and Skeat.
Higden's Polychronicon; with Trevisa's translation. (Record Publications); London, 1865-76.
Hoccleve, T.; Minor Poems of; ed. F. J. Furnivall; E. E. T. S., 1892.
—— De Regimine Principum, ed. T. Wright (Roxburgh Club); London, 1860.
Holland, P.; translation of Pliny's Natural History; 2 vols. London, 1634.
Horman's Vulgaria; pr. by Pynson; London, 1519.
Jack Upland; in Chalmers' British Poets, vol. i.
Jameson, Mrs.; Legends of the Monastic Orders; London, 1850.
—— Sacred and Legendary Art; 3rd edition, 2 vols. London, 1857.
Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary; new edition, by J. Longmuir and D. Donaldson; 4 vols. and Supplement; Paisley, 1879-87.
Kaluza, Max: Chaucer und der Rosenroman. Berlin, 1893.
—— The Romaunt of the Rose, from the Glasgow MS., parallel with its original, Le Roman de la Rose: Part I.—The Texts. Ch. S., 1891.
Keightley, T., Fairy Mythology. 2 vols. London, 1828.
Kemble, J. M., Salomon and Saturn; printed for the Ælfric Society; London, 1848.
King Alisaunder; in Weber's Met. Rom. vol. i.
Kingis Quair, The; by King James I. of Scotland; ed. W. W. Skeat. Scottish Text Soc.; Edinburgh, 1883-4.
Kittredge, G. L.; On the Romaunt of the Rose; in Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature. Boston, U.S.A., 1892.
Klaeber (Friedrich); Das Bild bei Chaucer. 8vo. Berlin, 1893.
Knight of la Tour-Landry; ed. T. Wright; E. E. T. S., 1868.
Koch, J.; A Critical Edition of some of Chaucer's Minor Poems. Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum Programm des Dorotheenstädtischen Realgymnasiums. Ostern, 1883. Berlin, 1883 (Programm No. 93).
Köppel, E.; Chaucer und Innocent des Dritten Traktat De Contemptu Mundi. In Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen; ed. L. Herrig; vol. 84; pp. 405-418.
—— Chaucer und Albertanus Brixiensis. In Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen; ed. L. Herrig; vol. 86; pp. 29-46.
—— Chaucers Prosawerke; die Echtheit der Parson's Tale. In Herrig's Archiv, &c.; vol. 87; pp. 33-54.
—— Chaucer und Alanus de Insulis. In Herrig's Archiv, &c.; vol. 90; pp. 149-151.
See also Anglia, xiii. 174; and xiv. 227.
Lacroix, P.; Manners, Customs, and Dress during the Middle Ages; London, 1874.
Land of Cockaigne; in Mätzner's Sprachproben.
Lange, Max; Untersuchungen über Chaucer's Boke of the Duchesse; Halle, 1883.
Langtoft:—Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, tr. by Robert of Brunne; ed. T. Hearne. 2 vols. Oxford, 1725; reprinted, London, 1810.
Layamon's Brut; ed. Sir F. Madden. 3 vols. Soc. of Antiquaries; London, 1847.
Legenda Aurea, ed. Dr. Th. Grässe. 2nd ed. Leipsic, 1850.
Le Roux de Lincy, Proverbes Français.
Levins, Manipulus Vocabulorum, ed. H. B. Wheatley; E. E. T. S., 1867.
Lewis, W. L.; translation of Statius; in Chalmers' British Poets, vol. 20.
Liber Albus; tr. by H. T. Riley, M.A. London, 1861.
Liber Cure Cocorum; ed. R. Morris. Philological Soc., London, 1862.
Liber Custumarum; ed. H. T. Riley. (Record Series.) London, 1860.
Lounsbury, T. R.; Studies in Chaucer. 3 vols. London, 1892.
Lydgate, J.; Complaint of the Black Knight; in Morris's Chaucer, vi. 235.
—— Falls of Princes; pr. by John Wayland. London, n. d.
—— The Hors, Shepe, and Goos; in Political, &c. Poems, ed. Furnivall; E. E. T. S., 1866.
—— Temple of Glas; ed. Schick; E. E. T. S., 1891.
—— The Troy-boke; London, 1555.
—— Minor Poems, ed. J. O. Halliwell, Percy Soc., 1840.
Lyndsay, Sir D.; Buke of the Monarché; ed. J. Small; E. E. T. S., 1865-6.
M‘Clumpha, C. F.; The Alliteration of Chaucer. Leipzig, n. d.
Machault; Les Œuvres de G. de Machault, ed. P. Tarbé; Reims and Paris, 1849.
Mätzner, E.; Old English Dictionary; A-L; Berlin, 1878-91.
—— Englische Grammatik; Berlin, 1860-5.
Mätzner, E., and K. Goldbeck, Altenglische Sprachproben; Berlin, 1867-9.
Malory, Sir Thomas; Morte d'Arthur; ed. H. O. Sommer (reprint of Caxton); London, 1889-91.
Manly, J. M.; On The Legend of Good Women; in Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature. Boston, U.S.A., 1893.
Marco Polo's Travels; ed. H. Yule; 2 vols. London, 1871.
Marie de France, Die Lais der; ed. K. Warncke; Halle, 1885.
Marlowe, C., Works of; ed. Lt.-Col. F. Cunningham; London, 1870.
Marsh, G. P.; Lectures on the English Language, ed. Dr. W. Smith; London, 1862.
—— Origin and History of the English Language; London, 1862.
Massingberd, Rev. F. C.; The English Reformation; 3rd ed. London, 1857.
Massinger, P., The Plays of; ed. Lt.-Col. F. Cunningham; London, 1868.
Maundeville's Travels, ed. J. O. Halliwell; London, 1866.
Metrical Romances; see Ritson and Weber.
Migne, M. L'Abbé; Cursus Patrologicus. (An edition of the Latin Fathers, with indices.)
Monumenta Franciscana, ed. J. S. Brewer. (Record Publications.) London, 1858.
Moral Ode, A; in Morris's Specimens of Early English, Part I.
More, Sir T., Works; London, 1557, folio.
Morley, H.; English Writers; 10 vols.; London, 1887-93.
Morris, R.; Chaucer's Poetical Works; London, 1860-6.
—— Historical Outlines of English Accidence; London, 1872.
Morte Arthure (an alliterative poem); ed. E. Brock; E. E. T. S., 1865.
Myrc's Duties of a Parish Priest; ed. E. Peacock; E. E. T. S., 1868.
Myrour of Our Lady, ed. J. H. Blount; E. E. T. S., 1873.
Mythographi Latini; Amsterdam, 1681.
Nares, Archdeacon; A Glossary; ed. Halliwell and Wright. 2 vols. London, 1876.
Neckam, A.; De Naturis Rerum; ed. T. Wright. (Record Publications.) London, 1863.
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; ed. J. A. H. Murray and H. Bradley; Oxford, 1884, &c.
Occleve; see Hoccleve.
Old English Miscellany, An; ed. R. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1872.
Old English Plays (Dodsley's Collection), ed. W. C. Hazlitt; 15 vols. London, 1876.
Originals and Analogues of some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ch. Soc.
Ormulum, The; ed. R. M. White. 2 vols. Oxford, 1852.
Our English Home, 2nd ed. Oxford and London, 1861.
Owl and Nightingale, The; ed. T. Wright; London, 1843.
And see Morris, Specimens of English, Part I.
Palladius on Husbandry, ed. B. Lodge and S. J. Herrtage; E. E. T. S., 1872-80.
Palsgrave.—Lesclaircissement de la Langue Françoyse, par Maistre Jehan Palsgrave; 1530. (Reprint; Paris, 1852.)
Parker Society's Publications.
Paston Letters: ed. J. Gairdner; 3 vols. London, 1872-5.
Percy Folio MS., ed. J. W. Hales and F. J. Furnivall. 3 vols. London, 1867-8.
Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; ed. R. A. Willmott; London, 1857.
Peter Comestor; Historia Scholastica; 4to. Paris, 1518.
Philip de Thaun; see Popular Treatises on Science.
Piaget, A.; Oton de Granson et ses Poésies. (Extrait de la Romania, tome xix.) Paris, 1890.
Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1867.
Piers Plowman; ed. W. W. Skeat. In 4 parts. E. E. T. S., 1867-85.
—— 2 vols. Oxford, 1886.
Political Poems and Songs, ed. T. Wright; (Record Publications.) 2 vols. 1859-61.
Political Songs, ed. T. Wright; C. S., 1839.
Political, Religious, and Love Poems; ed. F. J. Furnivall; E. E. T. S., 1866.
Pollard, A. W.; Chaucer (Primer); London, 1893. (An edition of the Canterbury Tales, by the same editor, has just appeared.)
Popular Treatises on Science; ed. T. Wright. London, 1841.
Promptorium Parvulorum; ed. A. Way; C. S., 1843-65.
Ratis Raving; ed. J. R. Lumby; E. E. T. S., 1870.
Ray, John; A Collection of English Words not generally used; ed. W. W. Skeat; E. D. S., 1874.
—— A compleat Collection of English Proverbs. 3rd ed. London, 1737.
Reliquiae Antiquae; ed. Wright and Halliwell. 2 vols. London, 1841-3.
Richard the Redeless; printed with Piers the Plowman, ed. W. W. Skeat.
Riley, H. T.; Memorials of London; London, 1868.
Ritson, J.; Ancient Engleish (sic) Metrical Romanceës. 3 vols. London, 1802.
(Contains: Ywaine and Gawin; Launfal; Lybeaus Disconus; K. Horn; King of Tars; Emare; Sir Orpheo; Chronicle of England; Le Bone Florence; Erle of Tolous; Squyr of Lowe Degree; Knight of Curtesy.)
Robert of Brunne, Handlyng Synne; ed. F. J. Furnivall (Roxburgh Club), 1862.
Robert of Gloucester, ed. T. Hearne, 2 vols. Oxford, 1724; reprint, London, 1810.
Also ed. W. A. Wright (Record Publications). 2 vols. 1887.
Rock, D.: The Church of Our Fathers; 3 vols. London, 1849-52.
Roman de la Rose; ed. Méon. 4 vols. Paris, 1813.
Romans of Partenay; ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1866.
Roquefort, J. B. B.; Glossaire de la Langue Romane. 2 vols.; with supplement. Paris, 1808-20.
Sandras, E. G.; Étude sur Chaucer; Paris, 1859. (See review by Ebert, Jahrbuch fur Romanische und Englische Literatur, 1861; tr. in Essays on Chaucer; Ch. S.)
Saunders, J.; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; with illustrations of English Life in Chaucer's Time; London, 1889.
Seelman, W.; Die Vogelsprachen (Vogelparlamente) der mittelalterlichen Litteratur. From the Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung. Jahrgang 1888. Norden und Leipzig, 1889.
Shakespeare.—The Globe Edition; Cambridge and London, 1864.
Shakespeare's Plutarch; ed. Skeat; London, 1875.
Shepheards Kalendar, The; printed in 1604; and again in 1656, folio.
Shoreham, W.; Poems of, ed. T. Wright; Percy Soc., 1849.
Skeat, W. W.; Etymological Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1884.
Skelton's Works; ed. Rev. A. Dyce; 2 vols. London, 1843.
Skinner's Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae; London, 1671.
South-English Legendary or Lives of Saints; ed. Horstmann; E. E. T. S., 1887.
Sowdone of Babylon; ed. Dr. Hausknecht; E. E. T. S., 1881.
Specimens of Early English; Part I. ed. R. Morris; 2nd ed. Oxford, 1885. Part II. ed. R. Morris and W. W. Skeat; 3rd ed. Oxford, 1894.
Specimens of English Literature, ed. W. W. Skeat; 5th ed. Oxford, 1890.
Speght.—Chaucer's Works, ed. T. Speght, London, 1598; 2nd ed. 1602.
Spenser, E.; Works of, ed. R. Morris and J. W. Hales; London, 1869.
Stewart, H. F.; Boethius, an Essay; Edinburgh and London, 1891.
Stowe, John; Chaucer's Works; London, 1561, folio.
—— Survey of London, ed. W. J. Thoms; London, 1842.
Stratmann, F. H.; A Middle-English Dictionary; ed. H. Bradley; Oxford, 1891.
Strutt, J.; Manners, Customs, &c., of the Inhabitants of England; 3 vols. London, 1774-6.
—— The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; ed. W. Hone; London, 1876.
Swainson, Rev. C.; Provincial Names of British Birds; E. D. S., 1885.
Sweet, H., Second Middle-English Primer; Oxford, 1886.
Ten Brink, B.; Chaucer: Studien zur Geschichte seiner Entwicklung; Münster, 1870.
—— Chaucer's Sprache und Verskunst; Leipzig, 1884.
—— Early English Literature; tr. by H. M. Kennedy; London, 1883.
—— English Literature; tr. by W. Clarke Robinson; London, 1893.
Testament of Love, The; printed with Chaucer's Works, in the old editions.
Theatrum Chemicum; 5 vols. London, 1659.
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, by E. Ashmole; London, 1652. 4to.
Thornton Romances, ed. J. O. Halliwell; London, C. S., 1844. (Contains Sir Percival, Sir Isumbras, Sir Eglamour, and Sir Degrevant.)
Three Metrical Romances, ed. J. Robson; London, C. S., 1842. (Contains The Anturs of Arthur, Sir Amadace, and the Avowynge of Arthur.)
Thynne, F.; Animadversions on Speght's Chaucer, ed. Furnivall; Ch. S., 1875.
Thynne; Chaucer's Workes, ed. W. Thynne; London. 1532, folio.
Todd, Rev. H. J.; Illustrations of Gower and Chaucer; London, 1810.
Trevisa, R.; translation of Higden; see Higden.
Tyrwhitt, T.; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 5 vols. 8vo. London, 1775-8.
—— The Poetical Works of G. Chaucer, with an Essay, &c.; by T. Tyrwhitt. London, E. Moxon, 1845; reprinted, 1855.
[Not edited by Tyrwhitt, except as regards the Canterbury Tales.]
Udall, N.; translation of the Apothegmes of Erasmus; Boston, 1877.
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—— Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. A new Text, &c. London, n. d.
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