This book brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) from the late eleventh and early twelfth century, preserved in Houghton Library's anthology known as MS Lat 300. This book offers unparalleled access to the anthology, previously unavailable in English.

From a literary point of view, those interested in lyric poetry composed in Old French and Old Provençal have paid increasing attention to Latin poetry that circulated in France, and of course those wishing to trace the background of the Carmina Burana have reason to study this kind of collection, but many poems remain unedited and even more cry out for translation and contextualization. With the publication of the accompanying facsimiles, palaeographers may now be able to solve the puzzle of where the manuscript originated--its story between the Napoleonic wars and 1965, when it was purchased by Harvard. All told, this volume opens the way to advances in medieval studies.

Jan Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University, and the Director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Bridget K. Balint is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Laura Light is a former manuscript cataloguer at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Prydwyn O. Piper is Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, Oxford University.

Other HUP Books by Jan Ziolkowski

• Solomon and Marcolf

Other HUP Books by Laura Light

• The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library