Susannah - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Bibliography Entry

Susannah

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External References:	IMEV 3553 NIMEV 3553 DIMEV 5607 Manual 2.IV.26
Manuscript, print, and LALME references:	Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. a.1 (Vernon) . (Pref. MS) LALME: vol. 1. 148. "MS in one hand except for the Index." LP 7630. Worcs. London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.2, pt.1 . San Marino, Huntington Library HM 114 (olim Phillipps 8252) . LALME: vol. 1. 92. "Hand of f. 184v seq." Part of LP 6030. Essex. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M 818 (olim Ingilby) . London, British Library, Additional 22283 (Simeon) .
Editions, facsimiles, and other sources cited:	Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, Scottish Text Society Publications 27, 38 (1892, 1897). Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, STS 27, 38 (1892, 1897).
MED title stencils and sources:	Vrn (Eng.poet. a.1) c1390 Susan. (Vrn) Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, Scottish Text Society Publications 27, 38 (1892, 1897).172-87. Clg A.2 c1450 Susan. (Clg A.2) Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, Scottish Text Society Publications 27, 38 (1892, 1897).lower part of odd pp. 191-245. Note: Re-dated from a1500 to the more precise c1450 June 2019. Hanna and Lawton (EETS 320) date the MS more precisely still to a1475. See also Variants below. Hnt HM 114 ?a1425 Susan. (Hnt HM 114) Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, Scottish Text Society Publications 27, 38 (1892, 1897).upper part of odd pp. 191-245. Note: Dated a1425 in print MED and e-MED. Changed to a1450 June 2019, on advice of OED, based on Hanna's evolving views that the notoriously error-prone scribe of Hnt HM 114, who "Cannot be dated very precisely..., belongs to s. xv med., i.e. c. 1430-60, perhaps to [the second quarter of the fifteenth century.] ... The scribe's activities should probably be placed in the later 1420s or early 1430s." -- R. Hanna, Studies in Bibliography 42 (1989), 121-22. But cp. Hanna and Lawton (EETS 320, p.xxii), identifying the scribe of Hnt HM 114 and Lamb 491 with a known London scribe active ca. 1419-1420. See also Variants below. Mrg M 818 ?c1450 Susan. (Mrg M 818) Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, Scottish Text Society Publications 27, 38 (1892, 1897).lower part of even pp. 190-244. See also Variants below. Sim (Add 22283) c1400 Susan. (Sim) Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, Scottish Text Society Publications 27, 38 (1892, 1897).upper part of even pp. 190-244. See also Variants below.
Variants taken from:	Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, ed. F. J. Amours, Scottish Text Society Publications 27, 38 (1892, 1897).fns. pp. 172-87. c1450 (Clg A.2) ?a1425 (Hnt HM 114) ?c1450 (Mrg M 818) c1400 (Sim)