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The Melbourne Manuscript and John Webster: A Reproduction and Transcript by Antony Hammond and Doreen Delvecchio

Bibliographical History As a Field of Study by G. Thomas Tanselle

Does "Text" Exist? by Louis Hay

Script, Work and Published Form: Franz Kafka's Incomplete Text by Gerhard Neumann

Conceptualisations for Procedures of Authorship by Klaus Hurlebusch

Some Notes on Letter Editions: With Special Reference to German Writers by Siegfried Scheibe

Editing the Correspondence of Charles Darwin by Frederick Burkhardt

Practice, not Theory: Editing J. S. Mill's Newspaper Writings by John M. Robson

The Unity and Authenticity of Anelida and Arcite: The Evidence of the Manuscripts by A. S. G. Edwards

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Appendix Anelida & Arcite—The Manuscripts

Notes

Editorial Method and Medieval Translations: The Example of Chaucer's Boece by Tim William Machan

The Origins and Production of Westminster School MS. 3 by Ralph Hanna III

An Epitaph for Richard, Duke of York by Richard Firth Green

More on the 1532 Edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso by Conor Fahy

"Foul Papers" and "Prompt-Books": Printer's Copy For Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors by Paul Werstine

New Evidence for Dr. Arbuthnot's Authorship of "The Rabbit-Man-Midwife" by Dennis Todd

"Hesiod" Cooke and the Subscription Game by Arthur Sherbo

From the Westminster Magazine: Swift, Goldsmith, Garrick, et al. by Arthur Sherbo

Richard Edwards, Publisher of Church-and-King Pamphlets and of William Blake by G. E. Bentley, Jr.

William Faulkner's 1962 Gold Medal Speech by Louis Daniel Brodsky

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Appendix Anelida & Arcite—The Manuscripts

I record here the contents of the poem (random omissions of single lines have not been noted) in each manuscript, the forms of the relevant rubrics, explicits, and attributions and also the headings for the second part of the poem, after line 210. I have ignored titles and rubrics added in later hands.

1. British Library Additional 16165: ff. 241v-243v (lines 211-255, 308-316, 256-263, 269-89, 299-307, 317-50) Title: "The compleynt of Anelyda þe feyre Qweene of Cartage vpon þe Chivalrous Arcyte of þe blode of Thebes descend". ff. 256v-258v (lines 1-65 [1 leaf lost], 127-140, 148-192 [text ends, leaf missing] Title: "Balade of Anelyda Qwene of Cartage made by Geffrey Chaucyer"
2. Trinity College, Cambridge, R.3.20: pp. 106-110 (lines 211-264, 269-289, 299-350) Title: "Takeþe heed sirs I prey yowe of þis compleynt of Anelyda Qweene of Cartage Roote of trouthe and stedfastnesse þat pytously compleyneþe vpon þe varyaunce of Daun Arcyte lord borne of þe blood Royal of Thebes englysshed by Geoffrey Chaucier. . ."
3. Bodleian Fairfax 16: ff. 30-32 (lines 211-350) Title: "The compleynt of Analida the quene vpon fals Arcite." ff. 32-35 (lines 1-210) Title: "The compleynt of feire Anelida and fals Arcite" Explicit: "So thirled with the poynt & c."

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4. Bodleian Tanner 346: ff. 59v-65 (lines 1-357)
5. British Library Harley 372: ff. 57-60v (lines 1-350) Title: "Here begynneth the Compleynt of faire Anelida & fals Arcite" Explicit: "Chaucer" After 210: "The compleynt of faire Anelida vpon fals Arcyte."
6. British Library Harley 7333: ff. 134-135 (lines 1-289, 299-350) Title: "Lo my lordis and ladyes here folowyng may ye see the maner of the lovyng bytwene Arcite of Thebes and Anelida the faire Quene of Hermony which with his feyned chere doublenesse and flateryng disceiued her withouten cause she beyng that oon of þe trewest gentilwomen that bere lyf compleyneth her I beseche you." After 210: "The compleynte of anelida þe Quene of Hermonye vpon arcyte borne of þe blode Riall of Thebes for his Doublenesse."
7. Bodleian Bodley 638: ff. 5-7 (lines 211-350) Title: "The complaynt of feyre Anelida on fals Arcite." ff. 7v-11 (lines 1-210) Title: "The boke of feyre Anelida & fals Arcyte" Explicit: "So thrillyd with the poynt vt supra & c."
8. Marquess of Bath Longleat 258: ff. 76-84 (lines 1-357) Title: "The Complaunt of Annelada & Arcite the fals theban knyght" After 210: "The Complaint of Annelada."
9. Bodleian Digby 181: ff. 39v-43v (lines 1-357) Explicit: "Explicit lamentacio Annelide Regine Ermonie" After 210: "litera Annelide Regine."
10. Magdalene College, Cambridge Pepys 2006: pp. 382-384 (lines 211-289, 299-311 [ends imperfectly]) Title: "The Compleint of Anelida quene of Hermenye vpon fals Arcite of Thebes."
11. Cambridge University Library Ff.i.6: ff. 61-63v (lines 211-357)
12. Huntington Library Hm 140: ff. 84-86 (lines 211-289, 299-350) Explicit: "Here endeth the compleynt of Anelida the Quene of Hermenye vpon fals Arcite of Thebees".