Lineage of the Lords of Clare (Dialog at the Grave)

Middle English Bibliography Entry

Entry Info

External References:	IMEV 3910 NIMEV 3910 DIMEV 6240 Manual 3.VII.38
Manuscript, print, and LALME references:	London, College of Arms, Vincent Clare Roll . (Pref. MS)
Editions, facsimiles, and other sources cited:	J. Weever, "A Dialogue Between a Secular and a Friar," in Antient Funeral Monuments, (1767). "The Dialogue at the Grave of Dame Johan of Acres Reascribed to Osbern Bokenham," apparently ed. by N. Scarfe and added as an appendix to K. W. Barnardiston, Clare Priory: Seven Centuries of a Suffolk House, (1962).
MED title stencils and sources:	ArmsV Clare Roll a1475(1456) ?Bokenham Lineage Clare (ArmsV Clare Roll) J. Weever, "A Dialogue Between a Secular and a Friar," in Antient Funeral Monuments, (1767).472-77. Note: Manual identifies MS as "Clare Roll, College of Arms, Box 21 no. 16"; DIMEV as "Schedule 3 ['formerly box 21'], number 16." In A-C of print MED cited with stencil a1475(1456) Lineage Clare (Vincent:Weever). "...likely that Bokenham was its author" -- S. Horobin, EETS 356 (2020), p. xvi; confirmed by the current editor of Bokenham's lesser works, J. Bellis (personal communication to MED, February 2025). Tentative attribution to Bokenham added November 2020. a1475(1456) ?Bokenham Lineage Clare (ArmsV Clare Roll:Scarfe) "The Dialogue at the Grave of Dame Johan of Acres Reascribed to Osbern Bokenham," apparently ed. by N. Scarfe and added as an appendix to K. W. Barnardiston, Clare Priory: Seven Centuries of a Suffolk House, (1962).65-69. Note: "The English text [here printed] ... differs in many minor points of spelling from the versions printed by Weever and Dugdale" -- Scarfe, editing Barnardiston, p. 64. Dugdale's transcription appears in the various editions of the Monasticon Anglicanum, e.g. the Latin edition of London, 1655, vol.1, pp.535-37; or the English "new edition" by J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel, vol. 6, part 3 (sometimes labeled 'v.8'), London: James Bohn, 1846, pp. 1599-1600 -- and reprinted by C. Horstmann, Osbern Bokenams Legenden (Heilbronn: Hennnger, 1883), pp. 269-274. One of these editions may be quoted when it is necessary to quote the accompanying Latin.