The Auchinleck Manuscript

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Contents: Alphabetical List >> Alphabetical Praise of Women Amis and Amiloun The Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin The Battle Abbey Roll The Clerk who would see the Virgin Dauid the King The Desputisoun Bitven the Bodi and the Soule Floris and Blancheflour The Four Foes of Mankind Guy of Warwick (couplets) Guy of Warwick(stanzas) The Harrowing of Hell Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild How Our Lady's Sauter was First Found King Richard Kyng Alisaunder The King of Tars Lay le Freine The Legend of Pope Gregory The Life of Adam and Eve The Life of St Mary Magdalene The Nativity and Early Life of Mary Of Arthour & of Merlin On the Seven Deadly Sins Otuel a Knight The Paternoster A Peniworth of Witt Reinbroun Roland and Vernagu The Sayings of St Bernard The Sayings of the Four Philosophers The Seven Sages of Rome Seynt Katerine Seynt Mergrete The Simonie Sir Beues of Hamtoun Sir Degare Sir Orfeo Sir Tristrem Speculum Gy de Warewyke St Patrick's Purgatory The Thrush and the Nightingale The Wenche that Loved the King

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In Manuscript Order

The Legend of Pope Gregory (ff.1r-6v)

f.6Ar / f.6Av (thin stub)

The King of Tars (ff.7ra-13vb)

The Life of Adam and Eve (E ff.1ra-2vb; ff.14ra-16rb)

Seynt Mergrete (ff.16rb-21ra)

Seynt Katerine (ff.21ra-24vb)

St Patrick's Purgatory (ff.25ra-31vb)

þe Desputisoun Bitven þe Bodi and þe Soule (ff.31vb-35ra stub)

The Harrowing of Hell (ff.?35rb-?37rb or 37va stub)

The Clerk who would see the Virgin (ff.?37rb or 37va stub-38vb)

Speculum Gy de Warewyke (ff.39ra-?48rb stub)

Amis and Amiloun (ff.?48rb stub-?61va stub)

The Life of St Mary Magdalene (ff.?61Ava stub-65vb)

The Nativity and Early Life of Mary (ff.65vb-69va)

On the Seven Deadly Sins (ff.70ra-72ra)

The Paternoster (ff.72ra-?72rb or ?72va stub)

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (?72rb or ?72va stub-78ra)

Sir Degare (ff.78rb-?84rb stub)

The Seven Sages of Rome (ff.?84rb stub-99vb)

Gathering missing (c1400 lines of text)

Floris and Blancheflour (ff.100ra-104vb)

The Sayings of the Four Philosophers (ff.105ra-105rb)

The Battle Abbey Roll (ff.105v-107r)

f.107Ar / f.107Av (thin stub)

Guy of Warwick (couplets) (ff.108ra-146vb)

Guy of Warwick (stanzas) (ff.145vb-167rb)

Reinbroun (ff.167rb-175vb)

leaf missing.

Sir Beues of Hamtoun (ff.176ra-201ra)

Of Arthour & of Merlin (ff.201rb-256vb)

þe Wenche þat Loved þe King (ff.256vb-256A thin stub)

A Peniworþ of Witt (ff.256A stub-259rb)

How Our Lady's Sauter was First Found (ff.259rb-260vb)

Lay le Freine (ff.261ra-262A thin stub)

Roland and Vernagu (ff.?262va stub-267vb)

Otuel a Knight (ff.268ra-277vb)

Many leaves lost, but some recovered as fragments.

Kyng Alisaunder (L f.1ra-vb; S A.15 f.1ra-2vb; L f.2ra-vb; ff.278-9)

The Thrush and the Nightingale (ff.279va-vb)

The Sayings of St Bernard (f.280ra)

Dauid þe King (ff.280rb-280vb)

Sir Tristrem (ff.281ra-299A thin stub)

Sir Orfeo (ff.299A stub-303ra)

The Four Foes of Mankind (f.303rb-303vb)

The Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle (ff.304ra-317rb)

Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild (ff.317va-323vb)

leaf missing.

Alphabetical Praise of Women (ff.324ra-325vb)

King Richard (f.326; E f.3ra-vb; S R.4 f.1ra-2vb; E f.4ra-vb; f.327)

Many leaves lost.

þe Simonie (ff.328r-334v)