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Scribe 1

Short couplets. Begins imperfect with the probable loss of a full leaf, equivalent to 176 lines.
6923 lines including a stub after f.118. One leaf missing after f.120.

Earliest copy of the A-redaction. Two other copies of the A-redaction in:
Caius Cambridge MS 107/176. c.1400. S. E. Midland.
BL Sloane MS 1044. Midland with Western features. Mid-late 14th century. Single-folio fragment. 216 lines.

Earlier, Northern couplet redaction in:
NLW MS Binding Fragments 578 and BL Additional MS 14408. Early 14th century. Fragmentary.

Later couplet redaction in:
CUL MS Ff.2.38 (olim no. 690). Late 15th century. Ff.2.38 also has in common with Auchinleck: A Penniworþ of Witt, Beues of Hamtoun, The Seven Sages of Rome and Sir Degare.

Edition:
J. Zupitza, Guy of Warwick, EETS ES 42, 49, 59 (London: Trübner, 1883-91).

Other editions and studies:
A. Wiggins, 'Guy of Warwick: Study and Transcription', unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sheffield (2000).
M. Mills and D. Huws, Fragments of an Early Fourteenth-Century 'Guy of Warwick', Medium Ævum Monographs New Series IV (Oxford: Blackwell, 1974). (Edition of the fragmentary NLW / BL Additional 14408 text).
A. Ewert, Gui de Warewic: Roman du XIIIe Siecle, 2 vols, CFMA 74-5 (Paris: Champion, 1932, 1933).

Manual I, 27; 217. Index 3145 (for other versions of Guy of Warwick see: 946, 1754, 3146, *76 and Suppl. *4194.5).