Manuscript

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates 19.2.1 (Auchinleck)

Date of origin1330-40
Place of originLondon area
MaterialParchment
DimensionsWidth: 180mm | Height: 250mm
Paper facsimile

The Auchinleck Manuscript: National Library of Scotland Advocates’ MS. 19.2.1, intro. Derek Pearsall and I. C. Cunningham (London: Scolar Press, 1977).

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Notes

An additional 10 folios have been discovered detached from the manuscript: Edinburgh University Library MS 218; ff.1-2, 3-4; St Andrews, University Library MS PR.2065 A.15 and R.4; London, Senate House Library Archives MS 593.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
1r-6v

The Legend of Pope Gregory 

209
7r-13v King of Tars 1108

1235 lines, including 7 extra lines. Lacks last folio.

14r-16r

Adam and Eve

1873.5

The beginning of this text is on the fragment which is now Edinburgh University Library MS 218, which used to be part of this manuscript.

16r-21r

Seynt Margrete

203
21r-24v

Seynt Katerine

1159
25r-31v

St Patrick's Purgatory

303.6
31v-35r

þe Desputisoun Bitven þe Bodi and þe Soule 

351
35r-37v

The Harrowing of Hell

185
37v-38v

The Clerk who would see the Virgin

282.5
39r-48r

Speculum Gy de Warewyke

1101
48r-61v Amis and Amiloun 821

2287 lines, missing beginning and ending.

61v-65v

The Life of St Mary Magdalene

304.5
65v-69v

The Nativity and Early Life of Mary 

213

From the South English Legendary.

70r-72r

On the Seven Deadly Sins 

1760
72r-v

The Paternoster 

206
72v-78r

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

4119.5
78r-84r Sir Degare 1895

1065 lines, ends imperfectly, lacks opening couplet and a few internal lines.

84r-99v

The Seven Sages

3187
100r-104v Floris and Blancheflour 2288.88

861 lines. Begins imperfectly (lacking about 384 lines).

105r

The Sayings of the Four Philosophers

105v-107r

The Battle Abbey Roll 

108r-146v Guy of Warwick 3145

In the Auchinleck MS, the romance known today as Guy of Warwick appears as three independent but narratively continuous accounts of the lives of Guy (first before and then after his marriage to Felice) and his son Reinbrun.

On ff. 108r-146v is the 'Couplet' version which recounts the first half of Guy's life, before his marriage. Begins imperfectly.

146v-167r Guy of Warwick 946

On ff. 146v-167r is the 'Stanzaic' version which recounts the second half of Guy's life, after his marriage. 

167r-175v Guy of Warwick 1754

On ff. 167r-175v is the stanzaic 'Reinbroun' which recounts the adventures of Guy's son. Ends imperfectly.

176r-201r Bevis of Hampton 1993

Missing a leaf after fol. 188, otherwise complete.

201r-256v Arthour and Merline 1675

9938 lines. The last 6774 lines of the poem are extant only in this MS. Lacks one leaf (about 176 lines) after f. 254.

256v

þe Wenche þat Loved þe King 

1614
256v-259r

A Peniworþ of Witt 

2602.3
259r-260v

How Our Lady's Sauter was First Found 

1840
261r-262r Lay le Freine 3869

Unique copy. Missing lines 121-33 and 340 - end.

262v-267v Roland and Vernagu 823.3

Unique copy. 880 lines. Begins imperfectly with 44 lines lacking.

268r- 277v Otuel a Knight 1103

Unique. 1738 lines. Ends imperfectly. Eight lines missing after line 120.

278-9 King Alisaunder 683

Parts of this text are found in the fragments London, Senate House Library Archives, MS 593 (ff.1ra-2vb) and St Andrews University Library MS PR 2065 A.15 (ff.1ra-2vb), which were originally part of this manuscript.

279v

The Thrush and the Nightingale

3222
280r

The Sayings of St Bernard

3310
280r-280v

David þe King 

1956
281r-299 Sir Tristrem 1382

f. 299 is a thin stub. 

299-303r Sir Orfeo 3868

f. 299 is a thin stub.

303r-303v

The Four Foes of Mankind

3462
304r-317r

The Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle

1105
317v-323v Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild 2253

Unique copy. 1136 lines. Ends imperfect. One leaf missing after line 783.
 

324r-325v

Alphabetical Praise of Women

552.8
326r-v, 327r-v Richard Coeur de Lion 1979

Between the two folios should be the fragments preserved in Edinburgh University Library MS 218, ff.3ra-4vb and St Andrews University Library MS PR 2065 R.4, ff.1ra-2vb.

328r-334v

þe Simonie

4165