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EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY Original Series, No. 141 1911 (reprinted 1964) Price 30s.
British Museum, MS. Harl. 2253. c. 1307. fol. 57 v. (slightly reduced)
At the time of text preparation (September 2010), a full-color image of this page (f. 59v) was available online at the British Library. The words “slightly reduced” refer to the image size in the printed book.
ORIGINAL SERIES.
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH POEM,
PRINTED FROM TWENTY-FOUR MANUSCRIPTS,
EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY,
BY
HILDA M. R. MURRAY
Published for THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY by the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
FIRST PUBLISHED 1911 REPRINTED 1964
Original Series, No. 141 REPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN GREAT BRITAIN AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD BY VIVIAN RIDLER PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
