Middle English Bibliography Entry

Serpent of Division

Entry Info

External References:
IMEV 3625
NIMEV 3625
DIMEV 5729
IPMEP 835
Manual 6.XVI.167
Manuscript, print, and LALME references:
London, British Library, Additional 48031 (olim Calthorpe, Yelverton 35) . (Pref. MS for part of text)
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 182 . (Pref. MS for part of text)
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Eng.530 .
Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2006 .
Editions, facsimiles, and other sources cited:
The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (1911).
MED title stencils and sources:
Add 48031
  • c1480(1422) Lydg.SD (Add 48031) The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (1911).49-51(middle of line 1). Note: Preferred manuscript for pp. 49-51(middle of line 1). MS was dated c1460 in print MED. But cp.: "The first phase of [John Vale's] copying c1478-80 .. included all the main 'political' documents ..; the second phase of copying filled in some spaces in the book .., 1478-83" -- A. F. Sutton and L. Visser-Fuchs, "The Provenance of the Manuscript," in The Politics of Fifteenth-Century England : John Vale's Book (Stroud, 1995), pp. 122-23. The composition date accepted here (based on the colophon in this MS only) is also disputed, and many prefer to place the work a decade or two later (Ibid., p.118-19, n.194).
  • c1480(c1422) Lydg.SD (Add 48031) The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (1911).fns. pp. 49-67.
  • See also Variants below.
McC 182
  • ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182) The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (1911).51(middle of line 1)-67. Note: Preferred manuscript for pp. 51(middle of line 1)-67.
Harv Eng.530
  • c1450 Lydg.SD (Harv Eng.530) The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (1911).fns. pp. 49-67.
  • See also Variants below.
Pep 2006
  • ?c1450 Lydg.SD (Pep 2006) The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (1911).fns. pp. 49-67.
  • See also Variants below.
Variants taken from:
The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (1911).fns. pp. 49-67.
  • c1480 (Add 48031)
  • c1450 (Harv Eng.530)
  • ?c1450 (Pep 2006)

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