CHRONICLE OF THE M. H. R. A. APRIL-JUNE 1922. The Association has grown so considerably during the last twelve months that several changes in its organisation are being made. These necessitate the issue of the July and the October Bulletin as one double number about the middle of August. After that number, which will contain the annual list of officers and members, the Bulletin will appear in these pages, and additional offprints will be sent to members who are also subscribers to the Review. Among the latest correspondents to be appointed in different parts of the world are Professor T. P. Cross (University of Chicago), Professor J. W. Draper (University of Maine), Professor H. J. Savage (Bryn Mawr College, Pa.), and Professor F. C. Green (Central Provinces of Canada). Many requests have been received for the new Bibliography of English Language and Literature, containing details of publications for 1921. It is hoped that the volume will be published very shortly after this notice appears; the labours of Dr A. C. Paues and her collaborators have been so successful that a Bibliography of nearly twice the size of last year's has been prepared. The delay in publication has been due to the difficulty of getting an estimate for the printing sufficiently low to make the Bibliography accessible to every member, which the Publications Committee is anxious should be the case. Members should order their copies through the Hon. Treasurer, and not through the usual channels, if they wish to take advantage of the reduction in price. We have received from Professor R. S. Crane, our correspondent at North-Western University, U.S.A., notice of the recent formation of a Research Group in Literary Tendencies of the later eighteenth century. 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JEFFRIES DAVIS, M.A. Assisted by H. HALË BELLOT, M.A., & E. F. JACOB, M.A. CONTENTS Articles: Philosophy and History. By ERNEST BARKER, D.Litt. The Monastery School of Yarrow. By R. B. HEPPLE, LL.D. Historical Revision: XXI-The Origins of the Punic Wars. By M. CARY. Notes and News-Correspondence-Reviews and Short Notices-List of New Books and New Editions LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY The Middle English Prose Psalter of Richard Rolle of Ham- Another Latin Manuscript of the Ancren Riwle.' By HOPE EMILY ALLEN.-Alliteration of the Versions of 'Piers Plowman' in its bearing on their Authorship. By MABEL DAY.-Spenser's Muiopotmos.' By H. J. C. GRIERSON.- The Authorship of The Costelie Whore.' By WALTER WORRALL-Mackenzie's Translations from the German. By HELEN M. RICHMOND.-Snape-Guest.' By ERNEST WEEK- LEY.-Spanish 'e' for 'ue.' By EDWIN H. TUTTLE.-A Alwin Thaler, Shakspere to Sheridan (W. J. LAWRENCE).— The Buik of Alexander, ed. by R. L. 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McGovern, VOLUME XVII OCTOBER, 1922 NUMBER 4 THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE PSALTER OF RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE. II. THE CONNEXION BETWEEN ROLLE'S VERSION OF THE PSALTER AND EARLIER ENGLISH VERSIONS. IN addition to the prose Psalter, the manuscripts of which were discussed in an earlier article, a Middle English metrical version of the Psalter, often called the Surtees' Psalter1, was at one time attributed to Rolle. It was included by C. Horstman in the second volume of his edition of the works of Richard Rolle2, with the remark that 'a tradition ascribes this Psalter to R. Rolle.' The origin of this remark is a note, written in what Horstman admits to be a modern hand, in the Egerton MS. of the Metrical Psalter3. The book to which the writer of the note refers is Wharton's Appendix to the first volume of W. Cave's Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria (London, 1688-98), but neither Wharton nor Usher, to whom he in turn refers, appears to mention the Metrical Psalter. The Psalter to which they refer can be no other than Rolle's Prose Psalter". Besides the testimony of this note, now shown to be valueless, the only reason for attributing the Metrical Psalter to Rolle is the similarity of phrase and vocabulary between it and his prose Psalter. Since, however, the language of the Metrical Psalter points to its having been 1 It was edited by J. Stevenson for the Surtees Society (1843-1847). 2 Horstman, C., Richard Rolle of Hampole, London, 1896. 3 The note runs: Videtur hoc Psalterium in linguam anglicanam transtulisse et versibus haud elegantibus concinasse Richardus de Hampole, vero nomine Rollus, gente Anglus, Ebor. comit., ord. August. eremita; in coenobio Hampoliense prope Doncastrum vixit; obiit anno 1349. Praeter hoc varia scripsit. Vide Cave hist. lit. vol. 1, p. 35 Append.' 4 Wharton, H., Appendix to Script. Eccles. Hist. Lit., 1, p. 35: Psalterium illum in linguam Anglicanam transtulisse, et in versum illum Davidis (ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usquequaq;) judicium suum de necessitate Scripturarum vernacularum proposuisse ex MS. quodam Codice testatur R. R. Usserius in Historiae Dogmaticae Controversiarum Specimine MS.' The reference is to Psalm cxviii, 43. See Usher, J., Hist. Dogm. Controversiae de Scripturis et Sacris Vernaculis (London, 1690), pp. 162, 163. Speaking of Rolle, he says: Psalterium in linguam Anglicanam transtulit, et in versum illum Davidis (ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usquequaque) judicium suum de necessitate Scripturarum Vernacularum proposuit.' In the comment on Psalm cxviii, 43, as printed by Bramley, Rolle does not mention the need for translations of the Bible, however. Wharton in his book Auctarium Historiae Dogmaticae J. Usserii (London 1689), pp. 427, 428 adds the remark that no such comment is to be found, after again quoting Usher's remarks. Possibly Usher had seen some interpolated copy of Rolle's Psalter, which contained this comment, though none of the interpolated copies I have examined contain it. M. L. R. XVII. 23 |