The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Egerton 2863 [olim Norton, post Compton Hall]
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.
suggests ‘the Southwest (Wiltshire, Somerset, and Hampshire)’, but cf.
Horobin (2003)
XHorobin, Simon.
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003
, where ‘North
Norfolk or Lincolnshire’ is posited (p.
149).
Number 6414-28
Number 6530-26
Number 6427-26
Number 6537-26
Number 6307-23
Number 724-25
Number 3090-14
Number 145-22
Number 4315-26
Number 2587-27
Number 4316-15
Number 725-24
Number 2499-14
Number 6535-23
Number 1242-25
15. ff. 83-86
v 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 2618-25
16. ff. 87-91
v 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 6536-25
Number 3255-26
Number 4860-25
Number 5573-26
Number 2476-23
Number 5405-24
Number 5729.4-24
Number 6296-21
Number 6753-21
Number 5599-25
Number 1887.5-25
Number 120-26
Number 6206-23
Number 5601-27
Number 3097-24
31. ff. 149-151
Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 2316-23
Number 2033-19
Number 142-23
Number 6390-23
Number 941-21