William Touris OFM, The Contemplacioun of Synnaris

Alasdair A. MacDonald Ph.D. (1978, University of Edinburgh) is emeritus professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. He has published widely on late-medieval and early modern literature.J. Craig McDonald, Ph.D. (1981, University of York) is emeritus professor of English at King University, Tennessee. He has published on Robert Henryson and John Ireland’s Meroure of Wyssdome.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Editing the Text2 Origins and Contexts3 The CS as Literature4 1499—The Latin catenae5 1578—A Dyall of Dayly ContemplacionBibliographyTextsTreatment of Texts1 Scots2 Latin3 Translations of SententiaePrologue (1499)Poem and CatenaeTextual Notes: Poem1 Textual Notes Pertaining to the Scottish Manuscripts2 Textual Notes Pertaining to the 1499 English PrintEmendations: SententiaeCommentary, Sources, GlossaryCommentary: PoemSources: SententiaeGlossaryIndex