Notes:

This manuscript file was originally supplied as alisaunder.html and the header file was located in heads/alisaunder_head.html both of which were converted to TEI XML by Dr James Cummings of the Oxford Text Archive. The notes below were taken from the header file and each HTML paragraph placed in a separate note.

Scribe 1

Short couplets. Auchinleck contains only 259 lines plus fragments now in London University Library and St Andrews University Library. Lineation below matches Smithers' text based on Laud Misc 622.

Composed in the early-fourteenth century, probably in a London dialect.

Two other manuscripts:
Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc 622 (formerly Laud I.74). S. E. Midland. c.1400. Fullest text (of 8021 lines).
London, Lincoln's Inn MS 150. W. Midlands, Shropshire. Late 14th (Kyng Alisaunder) and 15th centuries. 6746 lines. The Lincoln's MS also contains a version of Of Arthour and of Merlin.

Editions:
G. V. Smithers, Kyng Alisaunder, EETS OS 227, 237 (London: Oxford University Press, 1951, 1957; reprinted 1961, 1969).
G. V. Smithers, 'Two Newly-Discovered Fragments from the Auchinleck MS', Medium Ævum, 18 (1949): 1-11. (On the fragments found by N. R. Ker in the Library of the University of St Andrews).
G. V. Smithers, 'Another Fragment of the Auchinleck MS' in Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory of G. N. Garmonsway, D. A. Pearsall and R. A. Waldron (eds) (London: Athlone Press, 1969): 192-210. (Includes a transcription of the fragment University of London Library MS 593).

Manual I, 105; 270. Index 683.