Richard Coer de Lion — 7262 lines in couplets

Title(s): Richard Coer de Lion

Subjects: romances

Versification: — two-line — aa

Bibliographic Ghosts: Oxford, Merton College 23.b.6 [Ker Pastedowns 919]: this is fragment of Robert Manning’s Chronicle; see 3253.

Note: Fragment: lines 269-6590.

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Note: 7136 lines; basic text.

Attributed Title: Hic incipit uita Ricardi regis primi (p. 1)

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Note: Begins and ends imperfectly; lines 1847-7124.

Note: Fragment: 1608 lines.

Note: Variant: vv. 6380; vv. 6315-6604 missing, and other leaves mutilated.

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Note: Lines 1-168 and 2783-2957, first 24 lines in 12-line stanzas aabccbddbeeb, then couplets. Two other fragments from this MS are now Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library 218 and St Andrews, St Andrews University Library PR2065.R4 (see below).

Attributed Title: King Richard (f. 326ra)

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Note: Two fragments, originally in Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.1 [Auchinleck MS], between ff. 326vb and 327ra; lines 1753-1928 and 2593-2782.

Attributed Title: King Richard (f. 326ra)

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Note: Variant: imperfect; has prose interpolations.

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Note: Two fragments, originally in Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.1 [Auchinleck MS], between ff. 326vb and 327ra; lines 1753-1928 and 2593-2782.

Attributed Title: King Richard (f. 326ra)

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Note: Fragment; see Davis (1969), for an extensive study of this fragment. Contains lines 2732-2772; 2852-90; 2891-930; 2931-68; and on the fourth side, ‘two columns, the first beginning at line 2969, the second at 3007, each containing apparently 40 lines though many of those lower on the page cannot now be read’ (Davis 1969, p. 448).