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Textual Criticism and Deconstruction by G. Thomas Tanselle

Archival Standards in Documentary Editing by Ronald J. Zboray

Two Lollard Codices and Lollard Book-Production by Ralph Hanna III

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Appendix: Brief Descriptions

Notes

"The Final Revision of Bonduca": An Unpublished Essay by W. W. GREG by Grace Ioppolo

The Problem of Semi-Substantive Variants: An Example from the Shakespeare-Fletcher Henry VIII by Fredson Bowers

Font Analysis as a Bibliographical Method: The Elizabethan Play-Quarto Printers and Compositors by Adrian Weiss

British Plays, 1697-1737: Premieres, Datings, Attributions, and Publication Information by William J. Burling

William Robinson, Contributor to Fielding's Champion by Frederick G. Ribble

From the Monthly Magazine, and British Register: Notes on Milton, Pope, Boyce, Johnson, Sterne, Hawkesworth, and Prior by Arthur Sherbo

The Manuscript of Wilkie Collins's No Name by William Baker

Lawrence, Garnett, and Sons and Lovers: An Exploration of Author-Editor Relationship by Mark S. Sexton

John Greenleaf Whittier in the Critic, 1881-1892 by Arthur Sherbo

Gilbert Sorrentino's Revisions of The Sky Changes by David Leon Higdon and Robert F. Sheard

More on the Compositors of the First Edition of Don Quixote, Part II by R. M. Flores

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Appendix: Brief Descriptions

Production data:

Corpus Christi College 296: a-r8 s10 t4, in double column; the pagination includes pp. 212b and 212c and consequently should run to 300, not (as numbered) 298. Primarily a single hand, but items 31 and 31a added later.

Trinity College 244: a-h8 i 8 k8 l 8 (—l8) m 8 (—m4, with no text loss; +X 12 [ff. 92-103]) n-p 8 q 8 (—q3-6) r 8 (—r1-2, but a stub after r8) s 8 (—s8) t 8 (—t 8: quire lost) v-z 8 aa 8 (—aa7) bb 12 cc-dd 8 ee 4 (quires s, v-dd have reasonably regular signatures ordering leaves, but not naming the quire); the foliation includes the missing f. 88. Two, and possibly three, scribes: scribe 1 = ff. 1-91v, part of the first line of f. 92 (= EETS 74:112/25 seiþ), 104-111v, line 12 (= EETS 74:143/22 and answere - 156/2 lengere); scribe 2 = ff. 92-103v, the first line of f. 104 (= EETS 74:112/25 3if - 143/22 and answere wel hou, the clause then expuncted), ff. 188-219 (219v blank); ?scribe 3 = ff. 111v, line 12 (= EETS 74:156/2 þe more) - 187v, all arguably scribe 2 in a more formal duct.

Contents, based on Corpus 296 (the parenthetical numbers are those assigned the individual texts in R. E. Lewis, N. F. Blake and A. S. G. Edwards, Index of Printed Middle English Prose [1985] but I have silently corrected errors in this volume through my consulation of the microfilmed manuscript):

1. pp. 1a-22a (94) "Of the leaven of Pharisees" [untitled in C]; EETS 74:2-27; Trinity ff. 1-16v.
2. pp. 22a-29b (549) "Hou men owen obesche to prelatis drede curs and kepe lawe"; EETS 74:29-38; Trinity ff. 17-23 (the introductory rubric on f. 16v).
3. pp. 29b-34a (698) "Þis his þe reule of seynt fraunseis"; EETS 74:40-45; Trinity ff. 23-27 (+Bodley 647).
4. pp. 34a-39b (522) "Here endiþ þe reule of seynt fraunseis and here bigynneþ þe testament of seynt fraunceis" (although treated as ch. 13, a continuation of the preceding, with appended commentary); EETS 74:45-51; Trinity, ff. 27-32 (+Bodley 647).
5. pp. 39b-65a (187) "Fifty heresies and errors of friars" [untitled in C]; Select Works 3:367-401; Trinity ff. 32-54v (+Bodley 647, and its derivative early print).
6. pp. 65a-103b (656) "Here it telleþ of prelatis"; EETS 74:55-107; Trinity ff. 54v-89 (lacking EETS 74:105/14-106/32, on the lost leaf f. 88).
7. pp. 103b-106b (200) "Hou anticrist and his clerkis feren newe prestis fro prechynge of cristis gospel bi foure dicceitis" ["Speculum de Antichristo"]; EETS 74:109-113; Trinity ff. 89-92. In Corpus, followed by a brief Latin passage, pp. 106b-107a.
8. pp. 107a-123a (133) "Þis is of clerkis possessioneris"; EETS 74:116-140; Trinity ff. 92-103v.
9. pp. 123a-136a (216) "Hou the office of curatis is ordeyned of God" [untitled in C]; EETS 74:143-163; Trinity ff. 103v-116.
10. pp. 136a-144b (217) "Þis is for þe ordre of presthod"; EETS 74:166-179; Trinity ff. 116-124.
11. pp. 144b-145b (726) "Hou men schullen fynde prestis"; Select Works 3:203-208; Trinity ff. 124v-125.
12. pp. 145b-153a (524) "Hou preiere of good men helpiþ moche and preiere of synful men displesiþ god and harmeþ hemself and oþere men"; Select Works 3:219-229; Trinity ff. 125-131v (+Trinity College, Dublin 246 (two copies), British Library Additional 37677, Bodley 540).
13. pp. 153a-157b (710) "Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices Christiani"; Select
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Works 3:447-453; Trinity ff. 131v-133v, atelous, ending p. 450/33 gladly (+Trinity College, Dublin 246 (two copies), Bodley 540).
14. pp. 157b-160a (203) "A schort reule of lif for eche man in general and for prestis and lordes and laboreris in special hou eche man schal be sauyd in his degree"; Select Works 3:204-207 (+Laud Misc. 174, Harley 2398, Westminster School 3, Bodley 9, Bodley 938, Bodley Eng. th. f.39).
15. pp. 160a-165a (170) "Þre þingis distroien þis world false confessoures false men of lawe and false marchauntis"; EETS 74:181-186; Trinity ff. 134-136, acephalic, beginning p. 181/2 comunes; and lacking pp. 184/4 lordis — 186/30 hem owing to lost leaves (+Bodley 938).
16. pp. 165a-170a+297b-298 b (204) "Of feyned contemplatif lif of song of þe ordynal of Salisbury and of bodely almes and worldly bysynesse of prestis hou bi þes foure þe fend lettiþ hem fro prechynge of þe gospel," the second portion written consecutively as the conclusion to #31 below; EETS 74:188-196; Trinity ff. 136-141v.
17. pp. 170a-172a a fragment of "A petition," written consecutively as the conclusion of the preceding although properly following #31, pp. 288a-297b below, but = the remains of an apparently full text, Trinity ff. 141v-148v, atelous, ending at p. 520/17 world-.
18. pp. 172a-175b (516) "Þis his þe pater noster"; EETS 74:198-202.
19. pp. 175b-179a (276) "Þis is þe aue maria"; EETS 74:204-208 (+Sidney Sussex College 74, Bodley 938, Westminster School 3, Norwich Castle 158.926 4g.3).
20. pp. 179a-185b (182) "Hou Sathanas and his children turnen werkis of mercy vpsodoun [ms. vpsodom] and disceyuen men þerinne and in here fyue wittis"; EETS 74:210-218; Trinity ff. 149-152v, acephalic, beginning at p. 213/20 soulis.
21. pp. 185b-190a (130) "How religious men shoulde kepe certayne articles" [hand of s. xvi/xvii in unfilled blank left for rubric]; EETS 74:220-225; Trinity ff. 152v-156.
22. pp. 190a-203a (193) "Of seruauntis and lordis hou eche schal kepe his degree"; EETS 74:227-243; Trinity ff. 156v-167v.
23. pp. 203a-209b (612) "Whi pore prestis han none benefice"; EETS 74:245-253; Trinity ff. 167v-173.
24. pp. 209b-213a (77) "Hou anticrist and his clerkis traueilen to distroie holy writt and to make cristene men vnstable in þe feiþ and to sette here ground in deuelis of helle"; EETS 74:255-262; Trinity ff. 173-177v.
25. pp. 213a-221a (72) "Hou Sathanas and his prestis and his feyned religious casten bi þre cursed heresies to distroie alle good lyuynge and meyntenyng alle manere of synne"; EETS 74:264-274; Trinity ff. 177v-184.
26. pp. 221a-224b (511) "For þre skillis lordis schulden constreyne clerkis [ms. crer/ lis] to lyue in mekenesse wilful pouert and entrete (?) penaunce and gostly traueile"; Select Works 3:213-218; Trinity ff. 184-186v, atelous, ending p. 217/33 holy.

At this point, the two manuscripts diverge (although note the last two texts in Corpus and their placement in Trinity, as above); Corpus concludes:

27. pp. 224b-234a (521) "Of weddid men and wifis and of here children also"; Select Works 3:188-201 (+Cambridge Univ. Lib. Dd.xii.39, Ii.vi.55, Harley 2398, British Library Additional 24202, Westminster School 3, Bodley 938).
28. pp. 234a-238b (669) "Of poor preaching priests" [untitled in C]; EETS 74:276-280, unique.
29. pp. 238b-239a (97) "Augustinus arguam te nescis"; EETS 74:281, unique.
30. pp. 239a-288a (175) "Þe grete sentence of curs expouned"; Select Works 3:271-337, unique.
31. pp. 288a-297b+170a-172 a (542) "A complainte to the king and parliament" [untitled in C, hand of s. xvi/xvii in margin], the second portion written consecutively as the conclusion to #17 above; Select Works 3:508-523; Trinity ff. 141v-148v, as in #17 above.
31a. pp. 297b-298b a fragment of "Of feyned contemplatif lif," written consecutively
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as the conclusion to the preceding although properly following #16, pp. 165a-170a above.

Trinity concludes:

27. f. 187rv an unidentified acephalous fragment, inc. "þei and alle here meyne sterue for hunger and I lygge in prisoun," expl. "defautis of clerkis and brynge hem to þe meke lyuyng of crist And" (the lower part of f. 187v ruled but blank).
28. ff. 188-193 (600) ["Of dominion"]; EETS 74:284-293, unique.
29. ff. 193v-208 (218) ["De Pontificum Romanorum schismate"]; Select Works 3:242-266, unique.
30. ff. 208-210v (42) ["On the last age of the church"]; ed. J. H. Todd (Dublin, 1840), unique.
31. ff. 210v-211 (666) ["On the sufficiency of Holy Scripture"]; Select Works 3:186-187, unique.
32. ff. 211-212v a series of five sententiae, only the first published (501); EETS 74: 357-358 (+Bodley 788, Pembroke College, Cambridge 237, Wyggeston Hospital 10.D. 34/6, British Library Additional 40672).
33. ff. 212v-219 a disputation between a friar and a secular argued before Thomas of Woodstock, unpublished (see Hudson, Lollards, pp. 196-197; Premature Reformation, pp. 12, 112, and 530 s.v. B. Gordon) and unique.