ABSTRACT
There are eight mss., though one, BL Cotton Vespasian E xvi, fols. 70a-75b, does not contain the extract here. The others are:
L: Bodley Laud misc. 656, fols. 1a–19a, by a late fourteenth-century Oxfordshire scribe. Siege J is followed by PPl C.
P: Princeton Univ. Lib., R. H. Taylor Collection, Petre MS, of much the same date as L, from the northern tip of the W. Riding of Yorks. according to LALME. The MS. begins with the Speculum Vitae.
A: The Thornton ms., BL Addit. 31042, fols. 50a–66a, also containing Parlement and Wynnere. See the introduction to Wynnere above.
D: Lambeth Palace 491 (pt. I), fols. 206a–227b, by the same Essex scribe of 1425–50 who wrote the copy of Susan in Huntington Lib. HM 114. D also contains the Awntyrs.
C: BL Cotton Caligula A ii (pt. I), fols. 111a–125a, a mid-fifteenth-century ms. that begins with a text of Susan; see introduction to that poem.
U: Cambridge Univ. Lib. Mm.V.14, fols. 187a–206b, copied by the London scribe Richard Frampton in the early fifteenth century. The other contents are the Latin sources of Wars and Dest Troy.
E: Huntington Lib. HM 128, fols. 205a–216a, of the first half of the fifteenth century, from Warwicks., according to LALME. The Siege J follows PPl B by another scribe.
