This file is part of the facsimile-edition of the Auchinleck Manuscript was co-edited by Professor David Burnley and Dr Alison Wiggins. The HTML versions of the resource are freely available at http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck/
This manuscript file was originally supplied as philos.html and the header file was located in heads/philos_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 2
English-French macaronic verse. 98 lines.
One other manuscript:
St John's Cambridge MS 112.
Edition:
R. H. Robbins, Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth
Centuries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959):
140-143.
Other editions and studies:
G. Holmstedt, Speculum Christiani, EETS OS 182 (London:
Oxford University Press, 1933): 185-187; 331.
T. Vätke, 'Lied auf den Bruch der Magna Charta durch Edward II',
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Spachen und Litteraturen,
72 (1884): 467-469.
S. J. H. Herrtage, The Early English Versions of the Gesta
Romanorum, EETS ES 33 (London: Trübner, 1879; reprinted 1962):
498-499.
R. P. Wülcker, Altenglisches Lesebuch (Halle: Niemeyer,
1874-80).
A. J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, Chaucer
Society, Second Series, 4 (London: Trübner, 1869): 449.
T. Wright, The Political Songs of England, Camden Society, 6
(London: Nichols, 1839). Re-issued by P. R. Coss (ed. and intro.),
Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996).
D. Laing, Owain Miles (Edinburgh: Privately printed,
1837).
Index 1857.
The Auchinleck Manuscript (NLS Adv MS 19.2.1) is one of the National Library of Scotland’s greatest treasures. Produced in London in the 1330s, it provides a unique insight into the English language and literature that Chaucer and his generation grew up with and were influenced by. It acquired its name from its first known owner, Lord Auchinleck, who discovered the manuscript in 1740 and donated it to the precursor of the National Library in 1744.