• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. Ends imperfect with only 24 lines (barely legible) remaining. Single letters remaining on the stub f.256ra suggest at least 29 lines lost. Apparently an attempt was made to erase the text. Edition: E. Kölbing, 'Kleine Publicationen

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 42 lines. Begins imperfect. Edition: H. Varnhagen, 'Zu Mittelenglischen Gedichten', Anglia, 3 (1880): 275-292. ('VII: Noch Einmal zu den Sprüchen des Heiligen Bernhard': 291-292). Another edition: D. Laing, A Penni Worth of Witte, Abbotsford

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 74 lines not including speaker labels. First line defective. Ends imperfect through the loss of five succeeding leaves. One other manuscript: Bodleian Library MS 1687 (Digby 86). S. W. Midlands. c.1275. Digby 86 also

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 16-line stanzas, rhyming aaabcccbdddbeeeb. Markedly alliterative. 112 lines. Unique copy. Edition: C. Carleton-Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XIVth Century (Oxford: Clarendon, 1924). Second edition revised by G. V. Smithers (Oxford: Clarendon, 1952). Other editions: C. Bullock, 'The Enemies

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 A paraphrase of Psalm 51 (Vulgate Psalm 50). Short couplets. 96 lines including a lacuna on f.280va, but excluding Latin headings. The oldest version of this text. For further discussion of later and related redactions see: J. J.

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 8-line stanzas, rhyming abababab. 591 lines, not including Latin speech-labels or the English title. Ends perfect but with loss of line ends on f.35ra. Six other manuscripts of variant versions: BL Additional MS 22283 (Simeon). W. Midland. 1380-1400.

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabaab. 258 lines, including 13-line lacuna on f.259va. Two other manuscripts: Bodleian Library MS 1687 (Digby 86). c.1275. Digby 86 also has in common with Auchinleck: The Harrowing of Hell, The Sayings of St Bernard

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. 400 lines. Begins imperfect. Unique copy but can be compared to 'How a merchande dyd hys wyfe betray', in couplets (Index 1897), of which there are three manuscripts: CUL MS Ff.2.38 (olim no. 690). Late 15th

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 12-line stanzas, rhyming ababababcdcd. Paraphs in the latter part of the poem suggest interpretation by the copyist as alternating 8- and 4-line stanzas. 199 lines. Begins imperfect. Unique Copy. Editions: B. Boyd, Middle English Miracles of the Virgin

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. Speeches assigned to personages by name. 200 lines, omitting stub and Latin speech labels. Begins and ends imperfect. The first 18 line-ends on f.35rb are additional to the version in MS Harley 2253 and probably indicate

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. 1046 lines, including lacunae (3 lines each) on f.326rb and Sf.2vb and 1 line each on Sf.1ra and Sf.1rb. Begins perfect with a variant version of the opening of the poem. Occupies ff.326-7, but much

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 11-line stanzas of which the ninth line is single-stress (cf. Sir Tristrem; rhymes ababababcdc). 330 lines, with some defective through cutting of f.325. Begins imperfect, having lost the first 17 lines. Unique copy. However, MS Harley 2253 contains

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. 340 lines in this text and in Wattie's edition, which includes a lacuna (approximately 13 lines) at f.261vb. Ends imperfect with fragments of a full column on the stub f.262ra. Composed in the early 14th century

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets.780 lines. Begins imperfect, consisting of two discontinuous parts: Edinburgh University Library MS 218 (Ef.1-2, 352 lines) and Auchinleck ff.14ra-16rb (428 lines). Composed in the North Midlands, c.1300-1325. Unique copy. Edition: B. Murdoch and J. A. Tasionlas,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. Auchinleck contains only 259 lines plus fragments now in London University Library and St Andrews University Library. Lineation below matches Smithers' text based on Laud Misc 622. Composed in the early-fourteenth century, probably in a London

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Also known as The Long Life of Christ. 310 long lines. Long-line couplets, written as quatrains, but marked by paraphs as eight-line stanzas in the MS. Apparently copied from a fragment or abandoned with only six lines on

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. 604 lines in Bliss's edition, which includes a 38-line prologue borrowed from Lay le Freine; see: A. J. Bliss, 'Sir Orfeo lines 1-46', English and Germanic Studies , 5 (1952-53): 7-14. Two other manuscripts: BL Harley

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 8-line stanzas. Irregular rhyme scheme: predominantly abababab but some stanzas rhyme ababcbcb, ababacac and ababcdcd. 1057 short lines, not including lacuna on f.1r. Begins and ends imperfect. Lines defective on ff.2v and 3r. Surviving lines correspond to lines

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 6-line tail-rhyme stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 1186 lines in Easting's edition. Begins imperfect, with about 32 lines lost (Easting xxii). Unique version. Two copies of a later couplet redaction are found in: BL Cotton Caligula MS A.ii. S. E.

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 12-line tail-rhyme stanza, rhyming aabaabccbddb. 1235 lines, including 7 extra lines supplied in Perryman's edition (355-7, 748-50, 1142). Ends imperfect. Two other manuscripts: Bodleian Library MS 3938 (Bodl. poet. A.1) (Vernon). W. Midlands. Late 14th or early 15th