The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Parisian Libraries

The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Bibliotheque Mazarine and the Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve. They contain a miscellaneous but interesting set ofMiddle English prose texts: there is the Middle English version of Guy de Chauliac's Cyrurgie; a Brut; four miscellanies of religious matter, including a Pore Caitif and a Lay Folks' Catechism, as wellas texts by Rolle and Hilton. There is also Julian of Norwich's Showings, and the polemical Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards.