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 thrush.html and the header file was located in heads/thrush_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
6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 74 lines not including speaker labels. First line defective. Ends imperfect through the loss of five succeeding leaves.
One other manuscript:
Bodleian Library MS 1687 (Digby 86). S. W. Midlands.
c.1275. Digby 86 also has in common with Auchinleck: The
Harrowing of Hell, The Sayings of St Bernard and How
Our Lady's Sauter was First Found.
Edition:
H. Varnhagen, 'Zu Mittelenglischen Gedichten', Anglia, 4
(1881): 180-210. ('XIII: Zu dem 'Streitgedichte Zwischen und
Nachtigall'': 207-210).
Other editions:
F. Holthausen, 'Die Mittelenglische Streit Zwischen Drossel und
Nachtigall', Anglia, 43 (1919): 52-59. (Critical
edition).
D. Laing, A Penni Worth of Witte, Abbotsford Club
(Edinburgh, 1857): 45-48.
Index 3222.
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.