The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Austin, University of Texas, Humanities Research Center HRC Pre-1700 MS 143 [olim Deene Park; post Cardigan-Brudenell, sold
Sotheby’s, Feb. 1959]
Linguistic note:
Mosser (2010)
XMosser, Daniel W.
A Digital Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the
Canterbury Tales.
Birmingham, UK: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2010.
localizes both scribes to Warwickshire, noting that ‘Scribe A also shows
the influence of Type IV (Chancery Standard)’ while Scribe B has a layer of
spellings indicative of East
Anglia.
Number 6414-53
Number 6415-43
Number 6530-47
Number 6427-47
Number 6537-47
Number 6307-43
Number 724-45
Number 5238-38
Number 145-38
Number 4315-44
Number 3929-42
Number 2587-50
Number 1242-44
13. ff. 65-75
Experience though none auctoriteeGeoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Prologue of the Canterbury
Tales — 856 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional
lines.
Number 2618-45
14. ff. 75-80
In the old days of King ArthurGeoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Tale of the Canterbury
Tales — 408 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional
lines.
Number 5802-41
Number 6536-45
Number 5756-41
Number 3255-46
Number 4860-45
Number 5573-47
Number 5801-19
Number 6185-18
Number 6535-43
Number 745-29
Number 5024-30
Number 725-44
Number 2499-28
Number 5617-37
Number 2476-44
Number 5599-44
Number 4314-37
Number 3251-43
Number 2502-45
Number 120-46
Number 6206-42
Number 3970-50
Number 5601-52
Number 6401-39
Number 3097-43
39. ff. 160
v-161
v Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 3700-38
Number 6295-39
Number 2316-41
Number 2033-37
Number 142-42
Number 4870-8
45. f. 194
Sir Nuns Priest our Host said anonGeoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Nun’s Priest’s Epilogue’ of the
Canterbury Tales found in nine manuscripts and three pre-1500 printed
editions — 16 lines in couplets, possibly canceled and reworked for the
Monk’s Prologue
Number 3306-4
Number 5405-46
Number 5729.4-45
Number 6296-38
Number 6753-38
Number 6711-37
Number 6390-41
Number 941-37
Number 6276-27
Number 4420-12
55. ff. 304-308
v Problems of old likeness and figuresJohn Lydgate, ‘The Chorle and the Birde’ — fifty-four stanzas
rhyme royal including 2-stanza envoy, plus one 8-line ‘Verba translatoris’
(ababbcbc)