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- Title
A HITHERTO UNNOTICED MIDDLE ENGLISH POEM IN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MS ENGLISH 6.
- Authors
Tarvers, Josephine Koster
- Abstract
The article reports that the book "Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection of Bibles Presented to the University of Pennsylvania Library" describes on pp. 27-8 a small vellum manuscript of the Wycliffite New Testament, now University of Pennsylvania MS English 6. On folio 4r of this manuscript is preserved a unique text of a Middle English poem, which the Ross Catalogue mistakenly describes as written in prose. The poem was not noted by subsequent cataloguers of the Pennsylvania manuscripts, and some line endings have faded or been cropped, so it is not surprising that the poem has escaped the notice of later indexers and students of Middle English verse.
- Subjects
PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; MIDDLE English language; POETRY (Literary form); ENGLISH literature; UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1985, Vol 32, Issue 4, p447
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/32-4-447