Previous Editions
Boke of Cupide, God of Love
Conlee, John W., ed. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale. In Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1991. Pp. 249-65. [Based on Tanner 346.]
Ellis, Frederick Startridge, ed. The Floure and the Leafe, & The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or The Cuckow and the Nightingale. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. [Based on Tanner 346.]
Garbáty, Thomas J., ed. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, or The Book of Cupid, God of Love. In Medieval English Literature. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1984. Pp. 620-29. [?Based on Thynne; see above, p. 40n77.]
Scattergood, V. J., ed. The Boke of Cupide. In The Works of Sir John Clanvowe. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1975. Pp. 9-18 (introduction), 33-53 (text), and 81-86 (notes). [Based on Fairfax 16.]
Skeat, Walter W., ed. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale. In Chaucerian and Other Pieces. Pp. lvii-lxi (introduction), 347-360 (text), and 526-29 (notes). [Based on Thynne.]
Vollmer, Erich, ed. Das mittelenglische Gedicht The Boke of Cupide (The Cuckow and the Nyghtyngale), Clanvowe zugeschrieben. Berliner Beiträge zur germanischen und romanischen Philologie 17. Berlin: E. Ebering, 1898. [Based on Fairfax 16.]
A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe
Krausser, E. "The Complaint of the Black Knight." Anglia 19 (1896), 211-90. [Based on Fairfax 16.]
MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. The Complaint of the Black Knight. In The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. EETS e.s. 107; o.s. 192. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1961-62. 2.382-410. [Rpt. of 1911-34 ed. Based on Fairfax 16.]
Norton-Smith, John, ed. A Complaynt of a Loveres Lyfe. In John Lydgate, Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Pp. 47-66 (text) and 160-76 (notes). [Based on Fairfax 16.]
Skeat, Walter W., ed. The Complaint of the Black Knight. In Chaucerian and Other Pieces. 1897. Pp. xliii-xlv (introduction), 245-65 (text), and 504-08 (notes). [Based on Thynne.]
The Quare of Jelusy
The Bannatyne Miscellany. Ed. W. Scott, T. Thompson, and D. Laing. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1836. Pp. 159-84.
Brown, J. T. T., ed. The Quare of Jelusy. In Miscellany Volume. Scottish Text Society, third ser. 4. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1933. Pp. 191-94 (introductory note) and pp. 195-212 (text). [No notes are included.]
Lawson, Alexander, ed. The Kingis Quair and The Quare of Jelusy. London: A. and C. Black, 1910. Pp. 104-23 (text) and pp. 149-55 (notes). [No separate introduction for QJ.]
Norton-Smith, J., and I. Pravda, eds. The Quare of Jelusy. Middle English Texts 3. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1976.
La Belle Dame sans Mercy
Furnivall, Frederick J[ames], ed. La Belle Dame Sanz Mercy. In Political, Religious, and Love Poems. EETS o.s. 15. London: N. Trübner and Co., 1866. Pp. 51 (introductory note) and 52-80 (text). [Based on Harley 372.]
---, ed. La Belle Dame sans Merci. In Political, Religious, and Love Poems. EETS o.s. 15. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1866; rev. ed. 1903. Pp. 79 (introductory note) and 80-111 (text). [Based on Findern.]
Gröhler, Hermann. Über Richard Ros' mittelenglische Übersetzung des Gedichtes von Alain Chartier "La belle dame sans mercy." Breslau: Lindner, 1886. [Based on Harley 372.]
Skeat, Walter W., ed. La Belle Dame sans Mercy. In Chaucerian and Other Pieces. 1897. Pp. li-lv (introduction); 299-326 (text); and 517-20 (notes). [Based on Thynne.]
Sources and Analogues
Albertus Magnus. On Animals: A Medieval Summa Zoologica. Trans. and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Bartholomaeus Anglicus. On the Properties of Things. See Trevisa, John.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Le roman de Troie. Ed. Léopold Constans. 6 vols. Paris: Firmin- Didot, 1904-12.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Genealogie deorum gentilium libri. Ed. Vincenzo Romano. Bari: G. Laterza, 1951.
Chartier, Alain. La belle dame sans mercy, et les poésies lyriques. Ed. Arthur Piaget. Second ed. Lille: Librairie Giard, 1949.
---. The Poetical Works of Alain Chartier. Ed. J. C. Laidlaw. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Gen. ed. Larry D. Benson. Third ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.
Deschamps, Eustache. Oeuvres complètes de Eustache Deschamps. Ed. Auguste Henry Édouard and Gaston Raynaud. 11 vols. Société des anciens textes français 9. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1878-1903. Rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1966.
Douglas, Gavin. The Palis of Honoure. Ed. David J. Parkinson. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Dunbar, William. The Poems of William Dunbar. Ed. Priscilla Bawcutt. 2 vols. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1998.
Ginsberg, Warren. Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Gower, John. The Complete Works of John Gower. Ed. G. C. Macaulay. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899-1902. Vols. 2 and 3 rpt. as The English Works of John Gower. EETS e.s. 81-82. London: Paul Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1900-01; rpt. London: Oxford University Press, 1957. [Vol. 1: the French works; vol. 4: the Latin works. The standard edition of Gower's works for nearly a century.]
---. Confessio Amantis. 3 vols. Ed. Russell A. Peck. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000-. [Vol. 1: Prologue, Books 1 and 8; vol. 2: Books 2-4; vol. 3: Books 5-7.]
Guido delle Colonne. Historia destructionis Troiae. Ed. Nathaniel Edward Griffin. Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1936.
---. The "Gest Hystoriale" of the Destruction of Troy: An Alliterative Romance Trans-lated from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria Troiana." Ed. G. A. Panton and D. Donaldson. EETS o.s. 39, 56. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. [Rpt. of 1869-74 ed., as one vol.]
---. Historia destructionis Troiae. Trans., intro., and notes Mary Elizabeth Meek. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. Le roman de la rose [The Romance of the Rose]. Ed. Félix Lecoy. Les Classiques Français du Moyen Age 92, 95, 98. 3 vols. Paris: H. Champion, 1970-74.
Hasenfratz, Robert. Ancrene Wisse. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.
Henryson, Robert. The Poems of Robert Henryson. Ed. Denton Fox. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
Hyginus. The Myths of Hyginus. Ed. and trans. Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications, Humanistic Studies 34. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
---. Hygini Fabulae. Ed. Peter K. Marshall. 2 vols. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1993.
Jacobus de Voragine. The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints. Trans. William Granger Ryan. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
The Kingis Quair. Ed. John Norton-Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971; rpt. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981.
Kulcsár, Péter, ed. Mythographi Vaticani I et II. Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 91c. Turnhout: Brepols, 1987.
Lancelot of the Laik and Sir Tristrem. Ed. Alan Lupack. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1994.
Lydgate, John. The Fall of Princes. Ed. Henry Bergen. Lydgate's Fall of Princes. 4 vols. Washington, DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1923-27.
---. King Henry IV's Triumphal Entry into London. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. In The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. EETS e.s. 107; o.s. 192. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1961-62. 2.630-48. [Rpt. of 1911-34 ed.]
---. The Life of Our Lady. Ed. Joseph A. Lauritis, Ralph A. Klinefelter, and Vernon F. Gallagher. A Critical Edition of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University, 1961.
---. The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. Intro., notes, glossary, and indexes by Katharine B. Locock. EETS e.s. 77, 83, 92. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1899-1904. [Lydgate's translation of Guillaume de Deguileville.]
---. Reson and Sensuallyte. Ed. Ernst Sieper. Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte. EETS e.s. 84 and 89. 2 vols. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1901-03.
---. The Siege of Thebes. Ed. Robert R. Edwards. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001.
---. The Temple of Glass. Ed. John Norton-Smith. In Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Pp. 67-112 (text) and 176-91 (notes).
---. Troy Book. Ed. Henry Bergen. Lydgate's Troy Book, A. D. 1412-20. EETS e.s. 97, 103, 106, and 126. 4 vols. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1906-35; rpt. as 2 vols. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1973.
Machaut, Guillaume de. The Judgment of the King of Bohemia (Le jugement dou Roy de Behaingne). Ed. and trans. R. Barton Palmer. The Garland Library of Medieval Literature 9, ser. A. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. Frank Justus Miller; rev. G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. ["Ovid in six volumes," vols. 3-4: vol. 3 contains Books 1-8, vol. 4, Books 9-15.]
Parthenius. Erotika pathemata: The Love Stories of Parthenius. Trans. Jacob Stern. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
Pausanias. Description of Greece: With an English Translation. Ed. and trans. W. H. S. Jones. 5 vols. London: W. Heinemann, 1918-35. Rpt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966-75.
Pearsall, Derek, ed. The Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, and The Isle of Ladies. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1990.
Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-text edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793. Ed. T. L. Burton with the assistance of Frank Schaer et al. 2 vols. EETS o.s. 311-12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998-99.
Trevisa, John. On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum: A Critical Text. Gen. ed. M. C. Seymour. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975-88.
The Wallace: Selections. Ed. Anne McKim. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.
Facsimile Volumes
Beadle, Richard, and A. E. B. Owen, intro. The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS. Ff.1.6). London: Scolar Press, 1978.
Beattie, William, bib. note. The Chepman and Myllar Prints: Nine Tracts from the First Scottish Press, Edinburgh, 1508, Followed by the Two Other Tracts in the Same Volume in the National Library of Scotland. [Edinburgh]: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1950.
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards, intro. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and The Kingis Quair: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B. 24. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1997.
Brewer, D. S., intro. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works, 1532; with Supplementary Material from the Editions of 1542, 1561, 1598 and 1602. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969.
Brewer, D. S., and A. E. B. Owen, intro. The Thornton Manuscript (Lincoln Cathedral MS. 91). London: Scolar Press, 1975.
Edwards, A. S. G., intro. Manuscript Pepys 2006: A Facsimile: Magdalene College, Cam-bridge. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1985.
Fletcher, Bradford Y., intro. Manuscript Trinity R. 3. 19, Trinity College, Cambridge Univer-sity: A Facsimile. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1987.
Fox, Denton, and William A. Ringler, intro. The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS. 1.1.6. London: Scolar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1980.
Norton-Smith, John, intro. Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16. London: Scolar Press, 1979.
Robinson, Pamela, intro. Manuscript Tanner 346: A Facsimile: Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1980.
---, intro. Manuscript Bodley 638: A Facsimile: Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1982.
Skeat, Walter W., intro. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Collected Edition 1532, from the Copy in the British Museum. London: Alexander Moring, De La More Press; Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, [1905].
Criticism and Reference Works
Bennett, H. S. Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947; rpt. 1961.
Benson, Larry D. "Courtly Love and Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages." In Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays. Ed. Robert F. Yeager. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1984. Pp. 237-57.
Bianco, Su[san]. "A Black Monk in the Rose Garden: Lydgate and the Dit Amoureux Tra-dition." The Chaucer Review 34 (1999), 60-68.
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Blodgett, James E. "Some Printer's Copy for William Thynne's 1532 Edition of Chaucer." The Library sixth ser. 1 (1979), 97-113.
Boffey, Julia. "The Reputation and Circulation of Chaucer's Lyrics in the Fifteenth Century." Chaucer Review 28 (1993), 23-40.
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Boffey, Julia. "'Forto Compleyne She Had Gret Desire': The Grievances Expressed in Two Fif-teenth-Century Dream-Visions." In Cooney, 2001. Pp. 116-28.
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards. "'Chaucer's Chronicle,' John Shirley, and the Canon of Chaucer's Shorter Poems." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998), 201-18.
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Boffey, Julia, and John J. Thompson. "Anthologies and Miscellanies: Production and Choice of Texts." In Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475. Ed. Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 279-315.
Brown, Carleton, and Rossell Hope Robbins, eds. The Index of Middle English Verse. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.
Brown, Melissa L. "The Hope for 'plesaunce': Richard Roos' Translation of Alain Chartier's La Belle Dame sans Mercy." In New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems. Ed. David Chamberlain. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. Pp. 119-43.
Chamberlain, David. "Clanvowe's Cuckoo." In New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems. Ed. Chamberlain. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. Pp. 41-65.
Conlee, John W., ed. Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1991.
Connolly, Margaret. John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1998.
Cooney, Helen, ed. and intro. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.
Costomiris, Robert. "Bodleian MS Tanner 346 and William Thynne's Edition of Clanvowe's 'Cuckoo and the Nightingale.'" Library 20.2 (1998), 99-117.
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Cutler, John L., and Rossell Hope Robbins, eds. Supplement to the Index of Middle English Verse. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965.
Duffell, Martin J. "Lydgate's Metrical Inventiveness and His Debt to Chaucer." Parergon 18 (2000), 227-49.
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Elbin, Lois A. John Lydgate. Boston: Twayne, 1985.
Forni, Kathleen. The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
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Ginsberg, Warren. See under "Sources and Analogues," above.
Hahn, Thomas. "Early Middle English." In Wallace, 1999. Pp. 61-91.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual. New York: Peter Smith, 1908; rpt. 1933.
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Holsinger, Bruce. "Vernacular Legality: The English Jurisdictions of The Owl and the Nightingale." In The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England. Ed. Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. 154-84.
Howes, Laura L. Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Hunt, Richard William, Falconer Madon, et al. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953.
Jack, R. D. S., ed. and intro. The History of Scottish Literature. Vol. 1: Origins to 1660. Gen. ed. Cairns Craig. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988.
Jacobs, Nicolas. "Clanvowe." Notes and Queries 25 (1978), 292-95.
Jeffery, C. D. "The Quare of Jelusy, Lines 141-6." Notes and Queries 27 (1980), 500-01.
Justice, Stephen. "Lollardy." In Wallace, 1999. Pp. 662-89.
Kellog, Alfred L. Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1972.
Lampe, David. "Tradition and Meaning in The Cuckoo and the Nightingale." Papers on Language and Literature 3 (1967), 49-62.
Lerer, Seth. Chaucer and His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. London: Oxford University Press, 1936; rpt. 1959.
MacQueen, John. "Poetry: James I to Henryson." In Jack, 1988. Pp. 55-72.
McColly, William. "The Book of Cupid as an Imitation of Chaucer: A Stylo-Statistical View." The Chaucer Review 18 (1984), 239-49.
McFarlane, K. B. Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
McKim, Anne M. "'Makand hir mone': Masculine Constructions of the Feminine Voice in Middle Scots Complaints." Scotlands 2 (1994), 32-46.
McNamer, Sarah. "Female Authors, Provincial Setting: The Re-Versing of Courtly Love in the Findern Manuscript." Viator 22 (1991), 279-310.
Otey, Kirsten Johnson. "'Þe law of God in here modyr tonge': The Vernacular Theology of Sir John Clanvowe." Ph. D. Diss. University of Colorado, 1999. DAI 60.12 (2000), p. 4443A.
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Palmer, R. Barton. See Machaut, Guillaume de, under "Sources and Analogues," above.
Patterson, Lee. "Court Politics and the Invention of Literature: The Case of Sir John Clan-vowe." In Culture and History, 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities, and Writing. Ed. David Aers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992. Pp. 7-41.
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Pearsall, Derek. John Lydgate. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970.
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Pearsall, Derek, and Elizabeth Salter. Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
Piaget, Arthur. See entry under Chartier, Alain, in "Sources and Analogues," above.
Potkay, Monica Brzezinski. "Natural Law in The Owl and the Nightingale." Chaucer Review 28 (1994), 368-83.
Renoir, Alain, and C. David Benson. "John Lydgate." In Severs and Hartung, vol. 6. 1980. Pp. 1809-1920 and 2071-2175.
Riach, Mary. "A Study of Three Late Medieval Love Poems: The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, The Court of Love, and La Belle Dame sans Mercy." Oxford: University of Oxford, 1967. [Thesis (Bachelor of Phil.).]
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Scattergood, V. J. "The Authorship of The Boke of Cupide." Anglia 82 (1964), 137-49.
Schick, J. Lydgate's Temple of Glas. EETS e.s. 60. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1891.
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Seaton, Ethel. Sir Richard Roos, c. 1410-1482, Lancastrian Poet. London: Rupert Hart-Davies, 1961. [Somewhat bizarre detective work but rich in historical information surrounding Roos' poem.]
Severs, J. Burke, and Albert E. Hartung, gen. eds. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. 10 vols. to date. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-. [Severs is gen. ed. for vols. 1-2; Hartung is gen. ed. for vols. 3-.]
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Stanley, Eric Gerald, ed. The Owl and the Nightingale. London: Nelson, 1960.
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Witt, Michael A. "The Owl and the Nightingale and English Law Court Procedure of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries." Chaucer Review 16 (1982), 282-92.
Yeager, R. F. "Literary Theory at the Close of the Middle Ages: William Caxton and William Thynne." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984), 135-64.
Boke of Cupide, God of Love
Conlee, John W., ed. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale. In Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1991. Pp. 249-65. [Based on Tanner 346.]
Ellis, Frederick Startridge, ed. The Floure and the Leafe, & The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or The Cuckow and the Nightingale. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. [Based on Tanner 346.]
Garbáty, Thomas J., ed. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, or The Book of Cupid, God of Love. In Medieval English Literature. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1984. Pp. 620-29. [?Based on Thynne; see above, p. 40n77.]
Scattergood, V. J., ed. The Boke of Cupide. In The Works of Sir John Clanvowe. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1975. Pp. 9-18 (introduction), 33-53 (text), and 81-86 (notes). [Based on Fairfax 16.]
Skeat, Walter W., ed. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale. In Chaucerian and Other Pieces. Pp. lvii-lxi (introduction), 347-360 (text), and 526-29 (notes). [Based on Thynne.]
Vollmer, Erich, ed. Das mittelenglische Gedicht The Boke of Cupide (The Cuckow and the Nyghtyngale), Clanvowe zugeschrieben. Berliner Beiträge zur germanischen und romanischen Philologie 17. Berlin: E. Ebering, 1898. [Based on Fairfax 16.]
A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe
Krausser, E. "The Complaint of the Black Knight." Anglia 19 (1896), 211-90. [Based on Fairfax 16.]
MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. The Complaint of the Black Knight. In The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. EETS e.s. 107; o.s. 192. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1961-62. 2.382-410. [Rpt. of 1911-34 ed. Based on Fairfax 16.]
Norton-Smith, John, ed. A Complaynt of a Loveres Lyfe. In John Lydgate, Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Pp. 47-66 (text) and 160-76 (notes). [Based on Fairfax 16.]
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The Quare of Jelusy
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Brown, J. T. T., ed. The Quare of Jelusy. In Miscellany Volume. Scottish Text Society, third ser. 4. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1933. Pp. 191-94 (introductory note) and pp. 195-212 (text). [No notes are included.]
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La Belle Dame sans Mercy
Furnivall, Frederick J[ames], ed. La Belle Dame Sanz Mercy. In Political, Religious, and Love Poems. EETS o.s. 15. London: N. Trübner and Co., 1866. Pp. 51 (introductory note) and 52-80 (text). [Based on Harley 372.]
---, ed. La Belle Dame sans Merci. In Political, Religious, and Love Poems. EETS o.s. 15. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1866; rev. ed. 1903. Pp. 79 (introductory note) and 80-111 (text). [Based on Findern.]
Gröhler, Hermann. Über Richard Ros' mittelenglische Übersetzung des Gedichtes von Alain Chartier "La belle dame sans mercy." Breslau: Lindner, 1886. [Based on Harley 372.]
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Facsimile Volumes
Beadle, Richard, and A. E. B. Owen, intro. The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS. Ff.1.6). London: Scolar Press, 1978.
Beattie, William, bib. note. The Chepman and Myllar Prints: Nine Tracts from the First Scottish Press, Edinburgh, 1508, Followed by the Two Other Tracts in the Same Volume in the National Library of Scotland. [Edinburgh]: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1950.
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards, intro. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and The Kingis Quair: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B. 24. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1997.
Brewer, D. S., intro. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works, 1532; with Supplementary Material from the Editions of 1542, 1561, 1598 and 1602. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969.
Brewer, D. S., and A. E. B. Owen, intro. The Thornton Manuscript (Lincoln Cathedral MS. 91). London: Scolar Press, 1975.
Edwards, A. S. G., intro. Manuscript Pepys 2006: A Facsimile: Magdalene College, Cam-bridge. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1985.
Fletcher, Bradford Y., intro. Manuscript Trinity R. 3. 19, Trinity College, Cambridge Univer-sity: A Facsimile. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1987.
Fox, Denton, and William A. Ringler, intro. The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS. 1.1.6. London: Scolar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1980.
Norton-Smith, John, intro. Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16. London: Scolar Press, 1979.
Robinson, Pamela, intro. Manuscript Tanner 346: A Facsimile: Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1980.
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Skeat, Walter W., intro. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Collected Edition 1532, from the Copy in the British Museum. London: Alexander Moring, De La More Press; Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, [1905].
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