Facsimiles and Monographs Archive
The Institute for Medieval Studies and Leeds Studies in English published three book series: Leeds Medieval Studies (1975-81), Leeds Texts and Monographs (1935-2009), and Leeds Texts and Monographs Facsimiles (1973-84), alongside other miscellaneous volumes. Copies still in print are available through the University of Leeds Online Store: click on the titles below. We generally mail out copies during the first week of each month.
Leeds Medieval Studies
Not to be confused with the journal that began in 2021, this series of books ran from 1975 to 1981.
- The Drama of Medieval Europe: Proceedings of the Colloquium Held at the University of Leeds 10-13 September 1974, ed. by Peter Meredith (1975). Out of print.
- The Tristan Legend: Texts from Northern and Eastern Europe in Modern English Translation, ed. by Joyce Hill (1977). Out of print.
- The Passion de Semur, ed. by Peter Durbin and Lynette R. Muir (1981). Out of print.
Leeds Texts and Monographs: New Series
2. De pronunciatione Graecae et Latinae linguae cum scriptione nova libellus (1574): A Facsimile and English Translation , by John Butler Gable (1968), 32pp.
Order print copy £3.
4. The Dublin Orator: Thomas Sheridan's Influence on Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, by W. Benzie (1972), ix+118pp.
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5. The Rhetoric of Free Will: The Five-Action Structure of the English Morality Play, by Merle Fifield (1974), iv+52pp.
Out of print.
6. The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary, Manfred Görlach (1974), xi+317pp.
Order print copy £7.50.
7. Samuel Daniel, the Brotherton Manuscript: A Study in Authorship, by John Pitcher (1981), xii+214pp.
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8. The Gawain Country: Essays on the Topography of Middle English Poetry, by R. W. V. Elliott (1984), 165pp.
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9. Staging the Chester Cycle: Lectures Given on the Occasion of the Production of the Cycle at Leeds in 1983, edited by David Mills (1985), vii+123pp.
Order print copy £12.
10. Thomas Campion: De Puluerea Coniuratione (On the Gunpowder Plot), edited by David Lindley with translation and additional notes by Robin Sowerby (1987), v+123pp.
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11. Úr Dölum til Dala: Guðbrandur Vigfússon Centenary Essays, edited by Rory McTurk and Andrew Wawn (1989), x+327pp.
Order print copy £21.
12. P.J. Cosijn: Notes on 'Beowulf', introduced, translated and annotated by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr., Jan van den Berg and David F. Johnson (1991), xxxvi+120pp.
Order print copy £28.
14. Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages, edited by Simon Forde, Lesley Johnson and Alan V. Murray (1995), viii+213pp.
Order print copy £9.50.
15. The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles, edited by E.M. Treharne (1997), xiii+218pp.
Order print copy £24.
16. The Heege Manuscript: A Facsimile of National Library of Scotland MS Advocates 19.3.1, introduction by Phillipa Hardman (2000), lvii+216pp.
Order print copy £82.50.
17. Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse, edited by Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter (2009), viii+311pp.
Order print copy £40.
Original Series (Leeds School of English Language Texts and Monographs)
2. Studies in the Accidence of the Lindisfarne Gospels, by Alan S. C. Ross (1937), 179pp.: Complete Volume
Out of print.
5. Seven English Songs and Carols of the Fifteenth Century, edited by J. Copley (1940), 22pp.: Complete Volume
Out of print.
The Terfinnas and Beormas of Ohthere, by Alan S. C. Ross (1940), 63pp.: Complete Volume
Out of print
Leeds Texts and Monographs Facsimiles: New Series
1. The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Facsimile of MS Bodley 175, introduction by R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills (1973), xv+353pp.
Out of print.
2. The Towneley Cycle: A Facsimile of Huntington MS HM I, introduction by A. C. Cawley and Martin Stevens (1976), xix+132pp.
Out of print.
3. The Digby Plays: Facsimiles of the plays in Bodley MSS Digby 133 and e Museo 160, edited by Donald C. Baker and J.L. Murray (1976), xxii+246pp. +2 coloured plates.
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4. The N-Town Plays: A Facsimile of British Library Cotton Vespasian D VIII, edited by Peter Meredith and Stanley J. Karhl (1977), xxx+452pp. +1 coloured plate.
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5. Non-Cycle Plays and The Winchester Dialogues: Facsimiles of Plays and Fragments in Various Manuscripts and the Dialogues in Winchester College MS 33, edited by Norman Davis, with a transcript of the Dialogues (1979), vi+208pp.
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6. The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Reduced Facsimile of Huntington Library MS 2, edited by R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills (1980), xvi+314pp.
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7. The York Play: A Facsimile of British Library Additional MS 35290 together with a Facsimile of the Ordo Paginarum Section of the A/V Memorandum Book, edited by Richard Beadle and Peter Meredith, with a note on the music by Richard Rastall (1983), lvi+551pp.+ 5 coloured plates.
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8. The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Facsimile of British Library Harley MS 2124, edited by David Mills (1984), xxii+288pp.
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