Notes:

This manuscript file was originally supplied as smc.html and the header file was located in heads/smc_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. 2361 lines, including a 7-line passage in French on f.310rb, but excluding 9-line lacuna on f.317ra.

Seven other manuscripts representing three different redactions (Auchinleck is from the C-redaction):
A-redaction:
BL Royal MS 12.c.xii. 1320-40. W. Midlands.
B-redaction:
CUL MS Ff.5.48. 15th century. W. Midlands. Writen by Gilbert Pilkington.
C-redaction:
BL Additional MS 19677. 1390-1400.
CUL Dd.14.2. 15th century, completed before 1432.
Bodleian Library MS 15432 (Rawlinson poet. 145). Fist half of the 14th century. Zettle xxiii: '...It now forms part of a slender volume consisting of 13 leaves ... fols. 6-12 are the actual MS, seven mutilated leaves of vellum, disarranged by the binder...'.
BL Cotton Caligula A.ix. Single leaf. First half of the 14th century. (Note: Zettl has 'A.xi').
olim Phillipps (Sotheby Sale Cat., June 29, 1936, Lot 105). Present owner unknown.

Related MS:
CUL Gg.I.1. Translation of the Chronicle into Anglo-Norman prose, early 14th century.

Edition:
E. Zettl, An Anomymous Short English Metrical Chronicle, EETS OS 196 (London: Oxford University Press, 1935). (With all variants).

Another edition:
M. C. Carroll and R. Tuve, 'Two Manuscripts of the Middle English Anonymous Riming Chronicle', PMLA, 46 (1931): 115-154. (Edition of Auchinleck and Rawlinson 145; Auchinleck: 117-148).

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