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Select Bibliography for The Sultan of Babylon

Manuscripts

  1. No. 140 in the Robert Garrett Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, now at Princeton University.

Previous Editions

  1. Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone Who Conquered Rome. London: Roxburghe Club, 1854.
  2. The Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Ferumbras His Sone Who Conquerede Rome. Ed. Emil Hausknecht. EETS e.s. 38. 1881; rpt. London: Oxford UP for the EETS, 1969.
  3. Lines 1491–3226 of The Sultan of Babylon appear in Middle English Metrical Romances. Ed. Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale. New York: Russell & Russell, 1964. I, 239–284.

Criticism

  1. Barron, W. R. J. English Medieval Romance. London: Longman, 1987. Pp. 99–103.
  2. Smyser, H. M. ‘The Sowdon of Babylon and Its Author.’ Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 13 (1931), 185–218.

Select Bibliography for The Siege of Milan

Manuscripts

  1. BM Additional 31042 (called the London Thornton Ms.), fols. 66b–79b.

Previous Editions

  1. ‘The Sege off Melayne’ and ‘The Romance of Duke Rowland and Sir Otuell of Spayne’ . . . Together with a Fragment of ‘The Song of Roland.’ Ed. Sidney J. Herrtage. EETS e.s. 35. London: N. Trübner for the Early English Text Society, 1880.
  2. The Sege of Melayne. In Six Middle English Romances. Ed. Maldwyn Mills. London: Dent, 1973.

Criticism

  1. Barron, W. R. J. English Medieval Romance. London: Longman, 1987. Pp. 92–98.
  2. Mehl, Dieter. The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. Pp. 152–156.
  3. Thompson, John J. Robert Thornton and the London Thornton Manuscript, British Library MS Additional 31042. Manuscript Studies 2. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987. (A study of the manuscript.)

Select Bibliography for The Tale of Ralph the Collier

Manuscripts

  1. No manuscript survives. All modern editions are based on the 1572 edition of Robert Lekpreuik, reproduced in a facsimile edition: The Taill of Rauf Coilyear: Printed by Robert Lekpreuik at St. Andrews in 1572: A Facsimile of the Only Known Copy. Keppie Facsimiles No. 1. Ed. W. Beattie. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1966.

Editions

  1. The Tale of Rauf Coilyear. In Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Northern Border. Edited by David Laing LL.D. in 1822 and 1826. Re-Arranged and Revised with Additions and a Glossary by W. Carew Hazlitt. 2 vols. London: Reeves and Turner, 1895.
  2. The Tail of Rauf Coilyear: Mit literarhistorischer, grammatischer und metrischer Einleitung. Ed. M. Tonndorf. Berlin: C. Vogt’s Verlag, 1894.
  3. Rauf Coilyear. In Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas. Ed. F. J. Amours. Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1897.
  4. The Taill of Rauf Coilyear: A Scottish Metrical Romance of the Fifteenth Century. Ed. William Hand Browne. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1903.
  5. The Taill of Rauf Coilyear. In Longer Scottish Poems. 2 vols. Ed. Priscilla Bawcutt and Felicity Riddy. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987.
  6. Rauf Coilyear. In Medieval English Romances. Ed. Diane Speed. Sydney: Dept. of English, University of Sydney, 1989.
  7. The Tale of Ralph the Collier: An Alliterative Romance. Ed. Elizabeth Walsh. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Criticism

  1. Barron, W. R. J. English Medieval Romance. London: Longman, 1987. Pp. 181–82.
  2. Oakden, J. P. Alliterative Poetry in Middle English. 2 vols. in 1. 1930, 1935; rpt. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1968.
  3. Smyser, H. M. ‘The Taill of Rauf Coilyear and Its Sources.’ Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 14 (1932), 135–150.
  4. Walsh, Elizabeth. ‘The Tale of Rauf Coilyear: Oral Motif in Literary Guise.’ Scottish Literary Journal, 6.2 (1979), 5–19.