The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library 564 [olim Ashburnham 126, post McCormick]
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.
finds the spellings indicate ‘Worcestershire, very near Pershire,’ while ‘other features (e.g., the
splling ‘-th’ for ‘-ght’) suggest an East Anglian layer.’ Cf.
Horobin (2003)
XHorobin, Simon.
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003
, who suggests ‘West Oxfordshire’ (p. 156).
Number 6414-54
Number 6307-44
Number 724-46
Number 5238-39
Number 145-39
Number 4315-45
Number 3929-43
Number 2587-51
Number 4316-29
Number 725-45
Number 4860-46
Number 5573-48
Number 120-47
Number 6206-43
Number 3970-51
Number 5601-53
Number 6401-40
Number 3097-44
18. ff. 73
v-75
v Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 3700-39
Number 6295-40
Number 2316-42
Number 1242-45
22. ff. 120
v-134
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 2618-46
23. ff. 134-141
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 5802-42
Number 6536-46
Number 5756-42
Number 3255-47
Number 2033-38
Number 142-43
Number 6711-38
Number 6390-42
Number 5405-47
Number 5729.4-46
Number 6296-39
Number 6753-39