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Fourteenth-Century Couplets of English Verse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Albert C. Friend*
Affiliation:
The City College, New York

Abstract

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Type
Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1954

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References

1 English hand in 2 columns; first folio and 2 initial flyleaves missing; 43 folios cut out by Caron in 1815 between folios now numbered 10 and 11; the MS. consists of 227 folios, 67 vellum, 160 paper; 21 quires numbered; red initials and rubrics.

2 Fol. 4, col. 2. Explicit sermo magistri Henrici Chambron predictus Oxonie M CCC 8/2. At folio one a rubric in hand of 17th-century: Sermonis Johannis Bromiard Fratris Dominicani.

3 Oxford, 1924, pp. 178-181. Brown lists two MSS.: Bodl. 3938, fol. 410 and B. M. Addt. 22283, fol. 131v, and see also C. Brown and R. H. Robbins, The Index of Middle English Verse (New York, 1943) #2607. I am obliged to Professor Atcheson L. Hench of the University of Virginia for his advice and assistance.