Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose
edited by
KENNETH SISAM
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M D CCCC XXI
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CONTENTS
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THE TEXTS
A. LOVE IS LIFE. Cambridge University Library MS. DD. 5. 64, III (about 1400) f. 38 a.
THE TESTING OF SIR GAWAYNE. British Museum MS. Nero A X (about 1400); ed. R. Morris, ll. 2069 ff.
THE PEARL, ll. 361-612. (MS. Cotton Nero A X (about 1400).)
PROLOGUE.
A. FROM THE B-TEXT, PASSUS VI. Bodleian MS. Laud 581 (about 1400).
[THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE OF SIR IOHN MAUNDEVILE, KT.] British Museum MS. Cotton Titus C xvi (about 1400-25).
EPILOGUE.
THE BRUCE, Bk. xvii, ll. 593 ff. St. John's College (Cambridge) MS. G 23 (A.D. 1487).
B. OF FEIGNED CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE. Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) MS. 296 (1375-1400), p. 165.
A. CEIX AND ALCEONE. From Bk. iv, ll. 2927 ff.
A. THE MARVELS OF BRITAIN. CHAP. xlii. MS. Tiberius D. vii (about 1400), f. 39 a.
B. THE LANGUAGES OF BRITAIN. CHAP. lix.
A. ON THE SCOTS (ABOUT 1333). BY LAURENCE MINOT. MS. Cotton Galba E. ix (about 1425), f. 52 a.
E. ON THE YEAR 1390-1. St. John's College (Oxford) MS. 209, f. 57 a.
A. NOW SPRINGS THE SPRAY. Lincoln's Inn MS. Hale 135 (about 1300).
B. SPRING. MS. Harley 2253 (about 1325), f. 71 b.
C. ALYSOUN. MS. Harley 2253, f. 63 b.
D. THE IRISH DANCER. Bodleian MS. Rawlinson D. 913.
E. THE MAID OF THE MOOR. Bodleian MS. Rawlinson D. 913.
G. JUDAS. Trinity College (Cambridge) MS. B. 14. 39 (about 1300), f. 34 a.
H. THE BLACKSMITHS. British Museum MS. Arundel 292 (about 1425-50), f. 71 b.
I. RATS AWAY. Bodleian MS. Rawlinson C. 288, f. 113 (15th-century writing, blurred).
