The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Takamiya Deposit 32 [olim Penrose 6; prior Delamere]
Linguistic note:
McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986)
XAngus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin.
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English.
4 vols. = ‘LALME’. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univ. Press,
1986
and
Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 5970; Grid 552 167 (Kent). But cf.
Mosser (2004)
XMosser, Daniel W.
“The Scribe of Takamiya MS 32 (formerly the ‘Delamere
Chaucer’) and Cambridge University Library MS Gg.I.34 (Part 3)”
Journal of the Early Book Society
7 (2004): 121-30.
, which argues that the same scribe copied Cambridge University
Library MS Gg.I.34 (Part 3), of
Mandeville’s Travels, which
Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) includes as LP 619 (Ely). Mosser concludes that Norfolk or Suffolk are
more probable locations.
Number 6688-2
Number 4229-9
2. ff. 3
rb-5
ra; ff. 5
vb-8
va; ff. 8
va-11
va; ff. 11
vb-13
rb; ff. 13
rb-14
rb; ff. 158
ra-161
ra; ff. 161
ra-162
vb Of them that written us tofore
Confessio Amantis
Number 2450-1
Number 6414-64
Number 6415-48
Number 6530-54
Number 6427-53
Number 6537-53
Number 6307-50
Number 724-53
Number 5238-45
Number 145-45
Number 3090-26
Number 4316-32
Number 725-53
Number 2499-34
Number 6535-50
Number 4315-53
Number 3929-51
Number 2587-59
Number 1242-53
21. ff. 70
rb-74
vb 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 5573-58
Number 745-35
Number 5024-36
Number 5617-45
Number 2476-52
Number 5405-54
Number 5729.4-53
Number 6296-45
Number 6753-46
Number 5599-51
Number 4314-44
Number 3251-51
Number 2502-52
Number 120-53
Number 6206-49
Number 3970-58
Number 5601-60
Number 6401-47
Number 3097-52
40. ff. 106
rb-107
va Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 3700-47
Number 6295-46
Number 2316-50
Number 2033-45
Number 142-50
Number 6390-48
Number 941-42
Number 3348-7
Number 6533-1
Number 2866-5
Number 4730-3