Summa virtutum de remediis anime

Description: The anonymous "Summa," dating from the middle of the thirteenth century, is the ultimate source of the "remedia" sections of Chaucer's ParsT. This critical edition, based on one of the nine surviving manuscripts, is accompanied by a translation facing the Latin.; The introduction deals with the contents, background, date, authorship, correspondences between the "Summa" and Chaucer's "remedia," relations of the manuscripts, and principles on which the edition is based. The edition demonstrates close verbal parallels for most of Chaucer's lines on the "remedia."