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Scribe 1

Short couplets. 1046 lines, including lacunae (3 lines each) on f.326rb and Sf.2vb and 1 line each on Sf.1ra and Sf.1rb. Begins perfect with a variant version of the opening of the poem. Occupies ff.326-7, but much of the surviving text is contained in separated leaves:
Edinburgh University Library 218 (Ef.) contains a bifolium corresponding to Ef.3 1753-1928 and Ef.4 2593-2782 of Brunner's edition.
St Andrews University Library MS R4 (Sf.) is a bifolium corresponding to 2081-2426 of Brunner's edition.

Six other manuscripts:
Bodleian Library MS 21802 (Douce 228). Late 15th century.
Caius Cambridge MS 175. 1400-1450. Caius also has in common with Auchinleck: Seynt Katerine and Sir Beues of Hamtoun.
BL Egerton MS 2862 (olim Trentham-Sutherland). Late 14th century. Suffolk. Egerton also has in common with Auchinleck: Sir Beues of Hamtoun, Sir Degare, Floris and Blancheflour and Amis and Amiloun.
BL Harley MS 4690. 1450-1500.
BL Additional MS 31042 (Fillingham). 1425-50.
London, College of Arms, HDN 58 (olim Arundel). c.1448.

Editions:
G. V. Smithers, 'Two Newly-Discovered Fragments from the Auchinleck Manuscript', Medium Ævum, 18 (1949): 1-11.
K. Brunner, Richard Löwenherz, Wiener Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie, 42 (Vienna and Leipzig: W. Braumller, 1913). (Critical edition).
E. Kölbing, 'Kleine Publicationen aus der Auchinleck-hs', Englische Studien, 8 (1885): 115-119.

Other editions:
D. Laing and W. B. D. D. Turnbull, Owain Miles (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1837).
G. Paris, 'Le Roman de Richard Coeur de Lion', Romania, 26 (1897): 353-393; 355.

Manual I, 158; 315. Index 1979.