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Helen Waddell; ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan, OSB.
Songs of the Wandering Scholars.
Published London: The Folio Society, 1982.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; decorated boards, coloured tops; slip case, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Clark Constable, Edinburgh.
Size: 165x261x33mm
Page count: 371pp.
Main languages: English; the lyrics are given as Latin texts with facing English translations.
Overall condition fair to good: slip case rather faded, and starting to split at the corners and edges; pp. 359/60 is slightly creased and has a small hole in it, looks like mishandling but could be a manufacturing defect — likewise pp. 221/2 has been slightly wrinkled during manufacture; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 966g.

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Reprints the 1927 text of the The Wandering Scholars in full, but omits many of the footnotes, and all of the appendices and other apparatus; the chapters are interspersed with generous selections from the 1929 edition of Medieval Latin Lyrics; also includes two extracts from Waddell’s novel, Peter Abelard.

Contents: The pagan learning; Break with pagan tradition; Fortunatus to Sedulius of Liège; The 10th c.; Revival of learning; Humanism in the first half of the 12th c.; Paris & Orleans; The Archpoet; Ordo Vagorum; The scholars' lyric.

Illustrations: 10 monochrome wood engravings by Joan Freeman
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page for the prose, at end of section for the lyrics
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Indexes: First lines; Names.

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See also | Helen Waddell | Folio Society |
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