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Record of versions and dates:

When referring to material on this site you should include the following information:

Version number Date this version was launched
1.2 (current version) 27 February 2008   (XHTML / CSS code refresh)
1.1 15 March 2004   (Manuscript transcription edits)
1.0 (the original site) 5 July 2003

Record of corrections to texts and to textual notes:

Text: Version number and date: Changes incorporated:
Alphabetical Praise of Women

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 108:  and  >  &
Amis and Amiloun

1.1 (March 04)

  • Lines 13 and 24:  and >  &
Arthour and Merlin

1.1 (March 04)

  • Lines 1964, 4223, 6011, 8210, 8637, 8638, and 9650:  and  >  &
  • Note to line 5782:  for  >  of;  MS  >  Line 5782
The disputation between the bodi and the soule

1.1 (March 04)

  • Title:  and  >  &
Hou our lady's saute was first found

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 151:  and  >  &
Guy of Warwick (couplets)

1.1 (March 04)

  • Lines 4704 and 6710:  and  >  &
  • Note to line 6740:  6741  >  6740
Guy of Warwick (stanzas)

1.1 (March 04)

  • Notes added to lines: 7023, 7587, 8150, 8285, 8296, 8353, 8705, 8707, 8714, 8720, 8745, 8800, 8810, 8888, 8970, 9163, 9726, 9737, 9891, 10018, 10136, 10426, 10510
  • Line 7969:  he  >  be
  • Line 8014: žai > žai (it)
  • Note to line 8364: pes > seyd
  • Line 9472: wraied > wrai[e]d
  • Line 9568:  space inserted after no.
The King of Tars

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 143: add textual note 'sey: underdotted for deletion by the scribe'.
Legend of Pope Gregory

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 211: And  >  &
Nativity and early life of Mary  
  • Note to line 27: originally 'ne and so are superscript' emended to 'ne is written superscript by Scribe 1; so has been added superscript with a caret mark by a later hand'
  • Note to line 31:  er  >  er
  • Note to line 92: originally 'ioie is superscript, position marked by a caret' emended to 'ioie has been added superscript with a caret mark by a later hand'
  • Note to line 177: originally positioned at the end of line 176.
  • Note to line 244: at > žat.
Otuel

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 219:  iche  >  ichc
Roland and Vernagu

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 314:  and  >  &
  • Reference to stub 262 vb:  va  >  vb
Seynt Katerine

1.1 (March 04)

  • Character-entity sequences have been added to the source code for em dash (—) and quotation marks (‘ and ’).
The Sayings of St Bernard

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 36:  and  >  &
Sir Tristrem

1.1 (March 04)

  • Line 1947:  and  >  &

Record of other changes:

Text: Version number and date: Changes:
Menu

1.1 (March 04)

Two menu items added: 'How to refer to this site' and 'Archive of site updates'.

Further links

1.1 (March 04)

Link to the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive updated.

Link to <http://www.medievalmanuscripts.net> added.

Bibliography by text

1.1 (March 04)

Additional references:

Clifton, Nicole (2003) 'Of Arthour and of Merlin as Medieval Children's Literature', Arthuriana, 13, 2: 9-22.

Porcheddu, Fred (2001) 'Edited Text and Medieval Artifact: The Auchinleck Bookshop and Charlemagne and Roland Theories, Fifty Years Later', Philological Quarterly, 80, 4: 463-500.

Reichl, Karl (1973) Religioese Dichtung im Englischen Hochmittelalter. Untersuchung und Edition der Hanschrift B. 14.39 des Trinity College in Cambridge, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie 1 (Munich: Fink), pp. 163-288.

Reichl, Karl (1990) 'The King of Tars: Language and Textual Tradition', in Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, ed. Derek Pearsall (Cambridge: Brewer), pp. 171-86.

Wiggins, Alison (2003) 'Guy of Warwick in Warwick?: Reconsidering the Dialect Evidence', English Studies, 84, 3: 219-30.

Zaerr, Linda Marie (2003) 'Medieval and Modern Deletions of Repellent Passages' in Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Timothy McGee (Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University), pp. 222-46.

Bibliography by topic

1.1 (March 04)

Additional references:

Bly, Siobhain Montserrat (2002) 'The Auchinleck Manuscript and the Problems of Imagining Englishness in the Early Fourteenth Century', unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame.

Reichl, Karl (2002) Spielmannsidiom, Dialektmischung und Kunstsprache in der Mittelenglischen Volkstuemlichen Epik, Nordrhein-Westfaelische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vortraege G 383 (Paderborn: Schoening).

Yeaman, Lucretia Helm (1921) 'The Problem of the Relationship of Three Early Middle English Lays in the Auchinleck Manuscript', unpublished MA dissertation, Wellesley College.