ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
  • The electronic versions of the OED and MED (and additional resources of the Middle English Compendium database)were consulted for the etymologies, definitions, and Middle English usages of the lapidary terms presented here.
PRINT RESOURCES
NOTE:  An excellent bibliography of additional print resources ("Background details and Bibliographic Information") on the Anglo-Irish "Kildare" poems (including The Land of Cockaygne) is available at the CELT Project site, which provided an invaluable starting point for my own research into The Land of Cockaygne.  The print resources compiled here represent my own preliminary research into the poem, and the lapidary tradition as it was received, and written into, Middle English generally.
EDITIONS of Middle English lapidaries:
Evans, J. and M. S. Serjeantson. Eds.  English Mediaeval Lapidaries, EETS 190 (1933; reprint 1990). 

Keiser, George R.  The Middle English “Boke of Stones.”  Vrjheidslaan, Brussels:  1984.

Trevisa, John.  On the Properties of Things:  John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum.  Seymour, M.C. et al., eds.   Vol. 2 (Book XIV)  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Zettersten, Arne, ed.  A Middle English Lapidary.  (Acta Universitatis Lundensis Sectio I) [BodEMisc e.558]  Lund:  Gleerups, 1968.
EDITIONS OF The Land of Cockaygne:

Bennett, J.A.W., and G.V. Smithers, eds.  Early Middle English Verse and Prose.  Glossary by Norman Davis.  London:  Oxford University Press, 1974. 

Lucas, Angela M., ed.  Anglo-Irish Poems of the Middle Ages.  Dublin:  Columba Press, 1995.

Robbins, R.H., ed.  Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1959.
 

Additional Reading:

Andrew, Malcom, and Ronald Waldron, eds.  The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript.  Exeter:  Short Run Press Ltd., 1996.

Bahler, Ingrid, and Katherine Gyekenyesi-Gatto, eds.  The Lapidary of King Alfonso X the Learned.  New Orleans, LA : UP of the South, 1997.

Bishop, Ian.  “Lapidary Formulas as Topics of Invention from Thomas of  Hales to Henryson.”  Review of English Studies  37:148  (1986)  469-477.

Bitterling, Klaus.  “Further notes on the text of the ‘Peterborough Lapidary’.”  Notes and Queries  224:1 (1979) 6-8. 

Evans, Joan.  Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.  New York:  Dover, 1976.

Harvey, E. Ruth. Ed.  The Court of Sapience. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Holler, William M.  “The Lapidary of Sydrac: New Evidence on the Origin of the Lapidaire Chrétien.”  Manuscripta 30:3 (1986), 181-190.

______.  “Unusual Stone Lore in the Thirteenth-Century Lapidary of Sidrac.”  Romance Notes 20 (1979) 135-42.
Keiser,George R.  “An Unnoticed Middle English Version of the Second Anglo-Norman Prose Lapidary.” Manuscripta  38:1  (1994)  74-79.

Kitson, Peter R.  “Lapidary Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England:  Part I, the Background—The Old English Lapidary.” Anglo-Saxon England   7 (1978) 9-60.

_____.  Lapidary Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England:  Part II, Bede's Explanatio Apocalypsis and Related Works.”  Anglo-Saxon England 12 (1983) 73-123. 

Kunz, George Frederick.  The Curious Lore of Precious Stones.  New York:  Halcyon House, 1938.

Patch, H.R.  The Other World. Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1950.

Pleij, Herman.  Dreaming of Cockaigne:  Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life.  Trans. Diane Webb.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 2001.

Terpening, Ronnie H.  “The lapidary of L'Intelligenza: Its Literary Background.”  Neophilologus 60:1  (1976) 75-88. 
 


 
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