The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral Library 29
Linguistic note:
Horobin (2003)
XHorobin, Simon.
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003
discerns in Scribe 1 (ff. 2-196) forms characteristic of
‘Type III and Type IV forms,’ that is language characteristic of London (p. 153). The second scribe (f. 196v
to the end), also responsible for most of Petworth House, Lord Leconfield MS 7. In Lichfield 29, the
scribe’s spellings are mixed, suggesting provincial origins, though these marked
forms may be exemplar-conditioned.
Number 6414-46
Number 6415-38
Number 6530-42
Number 6427-41
Number 6537-41
Number 6307-38
Number 724-40
Number 5238-33
Number 145-33
Number 3090-23
Number 4315-39
Number 3929-37
Number 2587-45
Number 4316-25
Number 725-39
Number 6535-38
Number 1242-39
17. ff. 108
v-119
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 2618-40
18. ff. 119-124
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 5802-36
Number 6536-40
Number 5756-36
Number 3255-41
Number 4860-40
Number 5573-42
Number 745-25
Number 5024-26
Number 5617-32
Number 2476-39
Number 5405-40
Number 5729.4-39
Number 6296-33
Number 6753-33
Number 5599-39
Number 4314-32
Number 3251-38
Number 2502-39
Number 120-40
Number 6206-36
Number 3970-43
Number 5601-45
Number 6401-33
Number 3097-37
42. ff. 206-208
Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 3700-32
Number 2316-36
Number 2033-32
Number 142-37
Number 6711-31
Number 6390-36
Number 941-32