Properties Things Trevisas by Trevisa John (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume III ONLY! Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are age toned and foxed. The end pages are also foxed. Binding is sturdy. Dust jacket is edge worn and shelf scuffed. The dust jacket flaps are foxed.

Condition: as new. Appears unread. May have a retail sticker on back cover or remainder mark on the text block.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The 1975 critical text, "here printed for the first time and with a scholarly apparatus". We have Vols. I and II (of III all told) of the critical text. Both volumes tight and Near Fine (tiny former owner names at the front free endpapers) in bright, Near Fine dustjackets. Thick octavos, the English translations (done in 1398-9 by John Trevisa) appearing at the versos, the original text ( in its Latin) appearing along the facing rectos. (From the dustjacket front flaps: "The Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus compiled his encyclopedia c. 1230, and from the late Middle Ages until the early sixteenth century it was the most popular work of its kind, especially in England. It is popularly and deservedly known as 'Shakespeare's Encyclopedia'".).…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Trevisa's encyclopaedia, the first to appear in English, enshrines many basic medieval ideas which are reflected in English literature well into the seventeenth century.The two-volume text of Trevisa's translation On the Properties of Things, published in 1975, quickly established itself as a reference work for scholars working in many disciplines on the late Middle Ages.This third volume, comprising Introduction, Commentary, and Glossary, offers an indispensable tool for understanding the printed text and the manuscripts on which it is based.Contributors: M.C. Seymour, E.J. Brockhurst, G.M. Liegey, Ralph Hanna, Malcolm Andrew, J.D. Pheifer, Traugott Lawler, B.D. Harder, J.I. Miller. This volume, comprising introduction, commentary, and glossary, offers a useful tool for understanding the printed text and the manuscripts on which it is based. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …