Middle English Bibliography Entry

"Þe man þt wylle …" (incipit)

Entry Info

External References:
IMEV 3422
NIMEV 3422
DIMEV 5390
Manual 10.XXV.265
Manuscript, print, and LALME references:
London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library 542 (olim Payne) . (Pref. MS)
LALME: vol. 1. 137. "Language apparently of NW Norfolk, but with signs of admixture." Norfolk.
London, British Library, Sloane 468 .
London, British Library, Sloane 1314 .
London, British Library, Sloane 2584 .
Cambridge, Trinity College O.1.13 .
Editions, facsimiles, and other sources cited:
Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall, Early English Text Society, Original Series 15 (1866; re-ed. 1903; reprint 1965).
G. R. Keiser, "Verse Introductions to Middle English Medical Treatises," English Studies 84:4 (2003).
Medical Works of the Fourteenth Century, ed. G. Henslow (1899).
Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall, EETS 15 (1866; re-ed. 1903; reprint 1965). (MSS Sln 1314, Wel 542) Opens in a new window
MED title stencils and sources:
Wel 542
  • ?a1450 Þe man þt wylle (Wel 542) Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall, Early English Text Society, Original Series 15 (1866; re-ed. 1903; reprint 1965).286-88. Note: In A-Si of print MED cited with stencil ?a1450 Þe man þt wyllePayne Dated c1400 by G. R. Keiser, "Verse Introductions to Middle English Medical Treatises," English Studies 84:4 (2003), 303.
Sln 468
  • c1400 Þe man þt wylle (Sln 468) G. R. Keiser, "Verse Introductions to Middle English Medical Treatises," English Studies 84:4 (2003).303-304.
Sln 1314
  • ?a1450 Þe man þt wylle (Sln 1314) Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall, Early English Text Society, Original Series 15 (1866; re-ed. 1903; reprint 1965).287.
Sln 2584
  • a1500 Þe man þt wylle (Sln 2584) Medical Works of the Fourteenth Century, ed. G. Henslow (1899).125-26. Note: Also ed. R. H. Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries, (1959), pp. 95-96. Keiser dates this MS to c1375.
Trin-C O.1.13
  • a1500 Þe man þt wylle (Trin-C O.1.13) G. R. Keiser, "Verse Introductions to Middle English Medical Treatises," English Studies 84:4 (2003).fns. marked "T", p. 304.

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