Oxford University Press - The Ormulum: no. 360 (EETS Series)

The Ormulum: no. 360 provides a vital scholarly resource for students and historians of Middle English literature. Part of the Early English Text Society Original Series, this volume presents metrical English sermons composed by a late twelfth-century priest known as Orm in the East Midlands. This edition is newly edited from a fresh transcription, offering a significant advancement over the previous Holt and White edition which is now over 140 years old. The editors have successfully recovered all known missing parts of the manuscript by utilizing Jan van Vliet's seventeenth-century copy from the Lambeth Palace Library. By placing these two manuscripts in context, this work offers a more complete view of the original autograph manuscript found in the Bodleian Library. It is an essential text for anyone researching early English linguistic development and religious history.