• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 The poem is versified in monorhymed, long-lined quatrains but this edition follows the layout of the manuscript, which resembles 8-line stanzas. 330 long lines including a lacuna of 12 short lines on f.21vb. Ends imperfect, lacking about 130

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. 680 lines, omitting twelve lines lost at the foot of f.65ra. Begins imperfect, with line ends of a full column (vb) preserved on the stub f.61a. Unique copy. Edition: C. Horstmann, '3 Magdalena (b) aus MS

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 The poem is versified in monorhymed, long-lined quatrains but this edition follows the layout of the manuscript, which resembles 8-line stanzas. 412 long lines including a lacuna of 11 short lines on f.16va. Unique copy but related to

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas, rhyming aabccbddbeeb. The final stanza provides a link to Otuel. 880 lines. Begins imperfect with 44 lines lacking. One line omitted after line 645. Unique copy. Edition: S. J. H. Herrtage, The Taill of Rauf

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas, rhyming aabaabccbddb. 1136 lines in Mills edition. Ends imperfect. A leaf lost after f.321 and another after f.323 (with about 176 and 150 lines). Edition: M. Mills, Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild, Middle English Texts

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. 2361 lines, including a 7-line passage in French on f.310rb, but excluding 9-line lacuna on f.317ra. Seven other manuscripts representing three different redactions (Auchinleck is from the C-redaction): A-redaction: BL Royal MS 12.c.xii. 1320-40. W. Midlands.

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas rhyming aabaabccbddb. Four-stress iambic couplets alternating with one iambic three-stress line. 2332 lines. Commences and ends incomplete (supplied in Leach's edition from BL Egerton 2862, and a stanza after line 2060 from Bodley Douce 326).

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. 9763 lines (9938 lines in Macrae-Gibson's edition). Unique copy of the last 6774 lines of the poem. A transcript of the opening 62 lines of a version of the poem was made by John Stow in

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 11-line stanzas, rhyming ababababcbc. Ninth line is a single-stress bob which the copyist places in various positions. 3344 lines including lacunae (2 lines on f.281va, 12 lines on f.281vb, and 2 lines on f.285vb). Ends imperfect. Unique copy.

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas rhyming aabaabccbddb to line 624 (line 7547 of the present text); thereafter rhyming aabccbddbeeb except for about 10 stanzas scattered through the text. 3588 lines. Includes three lines missing on f.158rb after line 8924; three

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 5 Lines 1-474 in 6-line tail-rhyme stanzas rhyming aabccb; remainder in short couplets. 4444 lines. 4620 lines in Kölbing's edition which includes in its lineation 176 lines from a leaf lost after f.188. Translated from an Anglo-Norman

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. Begins imperfect with the probable loss of a full leaf, equivalent to 176 lines. 6923 lines including a stub after f.118. One leaf missing after f.120. Earliest copy of the A-redaction. Two other copies of the