The late fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript Oxford Trinity College MS 29 contains a
universal history of the world which begins with the creation and covers large swathes of
biblical and ancient history up to the time of Hannibal. Compiled from diverse printed and
manuscript sources by a single compiler-scribe the text forms an intricate network of sources
which provides extensive material for the study of history writing and compilation in
fifteenth-century England. Only very brief excerpts from this text have previously appeared in
print. Volume I (MET 63) contains the first complete edition of this history of the world
together with a textual apparatus. The present volume consists of an introduction with a
comprehensive discussion of the manuscript its language and provenance the source texts the
compiler's method and six illustrations as well as a detailed commentary and glossary.
