The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Petworth House, Lord Leconfield MS 7
Linguistic note: As in Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral Library 29, London
Type III and Type IV spellings comprise one layer, ‘alongside a layer of West Midlands forms’ (
Horobin (2003)
XHorobin, Simon.
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003
, p. 157; see also
Smith (1995)
XSmith, Jeremy J.
“Dialect and Standardisation in the Waseda Manuscript of Nicholas Love’s
Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ”
Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceedings of the International Conference 20-22 July
1997.
Ed. Shoichi Oguro, Richard Beadle, and Michael G.
Sargent. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester NY: D. S. Brewer, 1997. 129-41
). Both manuscripts
are almost certainly London productions,
as the hand also appears in London, Worshipful Company of Skinners, deposit, Guildhall
Library MS 31692, ff. 2-22, from 21 Richard II-22 Henry VI (1443)=Register of
Skinners/Book of the Fraternity of the Assumption of Our Lady.
Number 6414-51
Number 6415-42
Number 6530-46
Number 6427-46
Number 6537-46
Number 6307-42
Number 724-44
Number 5238-37
Number 145-37
Number 3090-24
Number 120-44
Number 6206-40
Number 3970-48
Number 5601-50
Number 4315-43
Number 3929-41
Number 2587-49
Number 4316-28
Number 725-43
Number 2499-27
Number 6535-42
Number 1242-43
22. ff. 129
v-141
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 2618-44
23. ff. 141-146
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 5802-40
Number 6536-44
Number 5756-40
Number 3255-45
Number 4860-44
Number 5573-46
Number 745-28
Number 5024-29
Number 5617-36
Number 2476-43
Number 5405-45
Number 5729.4-44
Number 6296-37
Number 6753-37
Number 5599-43
Number 4314-36
Number 3251-42
Number 2502-43
Number 6401-37
Number 3097-41
43. ff. 224
v-227
Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 3700-36
Number 6295-38
Number 2316-40
Number 2033-36
Number 142-41
Number 6711-36
Number 6390-40
Number 941-36