The Historye of the Patriarks: Edited from Cambridge, St John's College MS G.31. With Parallel Texts of 'The Historia Scholastica' and the 'Bible Historiale'

Cambridge, St John's College MS G.31 contains the only witness to the Middle English 'Historye of the Patriarks' which can be dated with some confidence to the fifteenth century. This text translates the Genesis section of Peter Comestor's 'Historia Scholastica' as it was mediated through its Old French translation, the 'Bible Historiale' of Guyard Desmoulins. It is evident that the compiler also made direct use of the 'Historia Scholastica' as well as the Vulgate, and added his own explana...