'Vices and virtues' : re-edited from British Library MS Stowe 34.

'Vices and Virtues' is an early Middle English homiletic
dialogue between Reason, the Soul and the Body, originally edited
by Ferdinand Holthausen in 1888, with Notes and Glossary published
in 1921. This edition contains an Introduction, the re-edited
Text, Notes on the text, a full etymological Glossary, and a
Bibliography of works cited or referred to in the preparation of
the edition.
The Introduction is concerned principally with an analysis
of the language of 'Vices and Virtues', and suggests a provenance
of London, or the areas of Essex or Middlesex just to the north of
London, and a date of c. 1200. It also contains a general introduction
to the work and the background against which it is presumed
to have been written, a description of the MS and notes on the
characteristics of the scribes who worked on it, and brief surveys
of the syntax, style and structure of the work, together with a
statement of editorial principles. The Notes to the text are
concerned principally with the language, both grammar and vocabulary,
and with sources and parallels in Patristic writings and other
medieval texts.