LALME references:
A. McIntosh, M.L. Samuels and M. Benskin, with the assistance of Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. Aberdeen, 1986 (LALME). Brief references to the LALME Index of Sources in vol. 1 are supplied only when they appear to cover the scribal dialect of the work, the section of the manuscript containing the work, or the scribal stint embracing the work which is the subject of the HyperBibliography entry. Users should consult the relevant volumes of LALME for detailed information about its analysis of the language of the work, or the manuscript as a whole.
When carrying out quotation or other searches involving LALME criteria, users must remember that several scribal dialects may be represented in any given text, and must check their results accordingly. HyperBibliography entries supply basic information on texts in several scribal dialects, and give the appropriate LALME references for detailed consultation.