Esq.
9. Merlin, or the Early History of Arthur. Edited for the first time
from the MS. in the Cambridge University Library (ab. 1450 A.D.), by
F. J. Furnivall, Esq. Part I.
Also, the following, if the amount of subscriptions will justify the
Committee in issuing them:--
Animadversions uppon the Annotacions and Corrections of some
imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucer's Workes reprinted in 1598,
by Francis Thynne. Edited from the MS. in the Bridgewater Library,
by Henry B. Wheatley, Esq.
The Story of Genesis and Exodus in English verse of about 1300 A.D. To
be edited for the first time from the unique MS. in the Library of
Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge, by F. J. Furnivall and R. Morris,
Esqrs.
The Harrowing of Hell. To be edited from the MS. in the Bodleian
Library, by R. F. Weymouth, Esq.
The following is a list of Texts, which it is proposed to print (among
others) in future years:--
The Romance of Arthour and Merlin. To be edited from the Auchinleck MS.
(ab. 1320-30 A.D.)
Mirk's Duties of a Parish Priest. To be edited for the first time from
the MSS. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries (ab. 1420
A.D.), by E. Peacock, Esq.
The Romance of William and the Werwolf. To be edited from the unique MS.
in the Library of King's Coll., Cambridge.
The Gospel of Nicodemus in the Northumbrian Dialect. To be edited for
the first time from Harl. MS. 4196, &c., Cotton-Galba E ix., by R.
Morris, Esq.
The Romance of Melusine. To be edited for the first time from the unique
MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Syr Thomas Maleor's Mort d'Arthur. To be edited from Caxton's edition
(1485 A.D.) with a new Preface, Notes, and a Glossary.
The Arthur Ballads.
The Romance of Sir Tristrem. To be edited from the Auchinleck MS.
The English Charlemagne Romances. To be edited from the Auchinleck MS.
The Early English Version of the Gesta Romanorum. To be edited from the
MSS. in the British Museum and other Libraries.
The two different Versions of Piers Plowman, in parallel columns.
Gawain Douglas's Aeneis. To be edited from the Cambridge MS. by Professor
Fitz-Edward Hall, D.C.L.
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.
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