Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Middle-English Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus
AN attempt is made in the present volume (1) to make easily accessible to students of English literature all the known middle-english versions of the Harrowing of Hell and the poetical Gospel of Nicodemus (2) to give exact reproductions of the several manuscripts in parallel columns, so far as that is possible in print, as well as the variant readings of all previous reprints (3) to give in the Introduction a succinct but comprehensive bibliographical account of the manuscripts in which the poems have been preserved and of all those manuscripts, so for as they are known, which contain prose versions of the middle-english Gm! Of Nicodemus (4) to furnish a Glossary of obsolete and unfamiliar words.
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