CHRISTIAN HEIMERL (ed.), The Middle English Version of William of Saliceto's Anatomia A Critical Edition Based on Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.14.41, with a Parallel Text of The Medieval Latin Anatomia Edited from Leipzig, Universitatsbibliothek, MS 1177, Middle English Texts, 39. * DAVID SCOTT-MACNAB (ed.), The Middle English Text of The Art of Hunting by William Twiti Edited from an

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THE choice of the Middle English translation of William of Saliceto’s Anatomia, together with its Latin source, is excellent for inclusion in the well-established series ‘Middle English Texts’. It is perhaps not very astonishing that the Middle English version has never been published before. The Trinity College MS is the only complete copy, and there are two not very incomplete copies in the British Library and in the Wellcome Library. It forms part of this author’s Chirurgia. It is amazing, however, that (p. xxvii) ‘[t]here is no modern edition’ of the Latin, which survives in ‘at least 46 Latin manuscripts’ plus eight incunabula and early prints. There appears to be no reason, other than convenience, why the Leipzig copy of the Latin should have been used in parallel with this edition of the Middle English. The printing of the texts in parallel merits high praise; first, of the...