CORRIGENDA To Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose
Reading edition
p. xlv, l. 7:for carat read caret
p. xlvii:for Jessop read Jessopp
p. 21, l. 259:for be read he
p. 28, l. 493:for enn read en
p. 43, Foot-note to l. 69:omit 'for:'
p. 62, l. 100:for tyste read t<r>yste (Morris); and adjust note at p. 225.
p. 103, l. 254:for largeand read large and
p. 175, l. 1:for Daib. read Diab.
p. 214, note to a: for 'The best... are' read 'This poem is largely a translation of sentences excerpted from Rolle's Incendium Amoris, cc. xl-xli (Miss Allen in Mod. Lang. Review for 1919, p. 320). Useful commentaries are'
p. 226, note to l. 153:in l. 8 for tǫ read tǭ
p. 243, n. to ll. 5-6:for 'external covering' read 'covering over it'
p. 291, table, last column, 1 sg.:for '-e or (e)s' read '-(e) or -(e)s'
Transcriber's Note
(See also the Transcriber's Note at the beginning of this e-text.)
The CORRIGENDA to Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose (see above) has been moved here from the end of the accompanying vocabulary volume. All items listed have been corrected, except
p. 62, l. 100: [...] and adjust note at p. 225
which remains unadjusted.
A number of editorial corrections are without Footnotes or Notes. The manuscript readings for these are here supplied by the transcriber from the editions of Hamelius and England & Pollard:
IX166Sythye] Sychye MS.
IX270it] is MS.
IX287greuous] grouous MS.
XVII85displeases] displeasse MS.
XVII472thou] thi MS.
The line numbering has been regularised to multiples of 5. Lines of prose have their line numbers at the right side of the text, or in some reading devices, line numbers will appear in {braces} within the text.
The companion volume, A Middle English Vocabulary, designed for use with SISAM's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, by J. R. R. Tolkien is available at PG #43737.