Series II. Research Materials, 1967 - 2005, inclusive

Series II includes annotated secondary material, notes, and photocopies of scholarly articles relating to Raymo's work on The Mirror for Fools/Speculum Stultorum (1953 – 1963), "Middle English Works of Religious and Philosophical Instruction" (1986), The Mirroure of the Worlde (2003), and "Sources and Analogues of the General Prologue," in Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2 (2005). For his authoritative chapter "Middle English Works of Religious and Philosophical Instruction" in A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1100, Vol. 7 (1986), Raymo compiled 1800 bibliographic entries gleaned from his research in approximately 250 western European and American libraries. He recorded many of his bibliographic findings on the index cards and notebooks contained within this series.