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Record Number:
948
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Laing , Margaret and Angus McIntosh
Contributor(s):
Title:
The Language of "Ancrene Riwle," the Katherine Group Texts and "The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd" in BL Cotton Titus D XVIII [detailed analysis of language overlays including a North West Midland element and a North Midland element].
Source:
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 96, ( 1995): Pages 235 - 263.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work
Katherine Group, Middle English Hagiographical Works
Language
Manuscripts
Scribes and Scriptoria
Wohunge of Ure Lauerd, Middle English Devotional Work
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
13
Primary Evidence:
Manuscript; London;British Library Cotton Titus D xviii, fols. 14r-147v. Consists of five texts (Ancrene Riwle, Sawles Warde, Hali Meidenhad, The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd, and St. Katherine) all in one hand.
Illustrations:
One map showing the likely scribal origins of the Ancrene Riwle and The Wohunge texts. Three manuscript stemma diagrams.
Table:
Three tables listing linguistic forms. The first shows the scribe's own usage, the second illustrates the North West Midland overlay, and the third gives forms confined to The Wohunge.
Abstract:
Related Resources:
Author's Affiliation:
Institute for Historical Dialectology, School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1995.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
00283754