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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
The relationship of the manuscripts of the Middle-English poem Ipotis has been studied in detail by Dr. Hugo Gruber on the basis of the nine mss. known to him. In addition to these there are five others, four of which are printed for the first time below. One of these, unfortunately a fragment, is of the greatest importance, since it carries back the date of the poem at least fifty years. On the basis of the earliest manuscript known to him—ms. Vernon, written about 1385—Gruber assigned the Ipotis to the second half of the fourteenth century. But in the light of the new evidence, the composition of the poem is pushed back to the very beginning of the century.
1 Hugo Gruber, Zu dem mittelenglischen Dialog ‘Ipotis,‘ Berlin, 1887.
2 For convenience I add at this point a list of the hitherto printed mss. of Ipotis, with the symbols by which they are cited in the following discussion. To avoid confusion I retain the symbols employed by Gruber.
V, Vernon ms., fol. 296. Printed by C. Horstmann, Altenglische hegenden, neue Folge, Heilbronn, 1881, pp. 341 ff.
C, ms. Cott. Calig. A ii, fol. 79b. Printed by Horstmann, op. cit., pp. 511 ff.
A 1, B. M. Addit. ms. 22283 (Simeon ms.). A copy of V, according to Horstmann, who collates the readings of this ms., op. cit., pp. 341 ff.
A, ms. Arundel 140, fol. 1.
B, ms. Ashmole 61, Art. 26, fol. 83-87b.
T, ms. Cott. Tit. A xxvi, fol. 163.
The variant readings of A, B and T are recorded by Horstmann in his print of C, op. cit., pp. 511 ff.
B 1, ms. Ashmole 750, fol. 148a-159b. Printed by Gruber, op. cit., pp. 7 ff.
D, ms. Douce 323, fol. 160-167. Printed by Gruber, op. cit., pp. 7 ff.
B 2, Brome ms. Printed by Lucy Toulmin Smith, A Common-Place Book of the Fifteenth Century, Privately printed, Norwich, 1886, pp. 25 ff.
3 The text of Ipotis which still remains unprinted is contained in York Minster ms. xvi, L. 12, fol. 58a-69b, as I am informed by Professor Carleton Brown. I have not been able to secure a transcript of this manuscript.
4 B 1F (vv. 614-15):
ur
hire we weren of bale unbounde
at ilche stounde.“V and all other mss. (vv. 585-6):
orw hire we weoren al vnbounde
t out of helle grounde.“5 Deleted by dots and a line.
6 wers, deleted before moche.
7 ruhe, deleted.
8 semy deleted.
9 fulled deleted.
10 
e deuil with hym away deleted.
11 Oure Lorde leihe sayde to pea euy seyde deleted.
12 Text has corrupt reading eiroye.
13 and is deleted.
14 Sic.
15 fore stands after be, a b written above the f and ore deleted with dots.
16 See Gruber's chart, op. cit., p. 35.
17 Mod. Lang. Rev., Jan. 1910, p. 26.
18 Lay Folks Mass Book, EETS., Orig. Ser. 71, p. 362.