Abbreviations

A

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402

AB

the literary dialect of ME found in Corpus 402 (A) and Bodley 34 (B)

CCCM

Corpus Christianorum: continuatio mediaeualis (Turnhout, 1966--)

CCSL

Corpus Christianorum: series latina (Turnhout, 1953--)

CSEL

Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum (Vienna, 1866--)

Conc. oec. decreta

Conciliorum oecumenicorum decreta, ed. Giuseppe Alberigo et al. (Bologna, 1973)

DMBLS

Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, ed. R.E. Latham (London, 1975-)

ES

English Studies

HM

‘Hali Meiðhad’ (Epistel of Meidenhad): cited from Millett (1982)

LALME

A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English, ed. Angus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1986)

MÆ

Medium Ævum

MED

Middle English Dictionary, ed. H. Kurath and S. M. Kuhn (Michigan, 1956-)

MLN

Modern Language Notes

MS

Mediaeval Studies

N & Q

Notes and Queries

ODCC

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. E. A. Livingstone, 3rd edn (Oxford, 1997)

PL

Patrologiae cursus completus . . . Series latina, ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1844-64)

RES

Review of English Studies

SM

Seinte Margarete: cited from Mack 1934.

Walther

Hans Walther, Proverbia sententiaeque Latinitatis medii ac recentioris aevi: nova series, 3 vols, ed. Paul Gerhard Schmitt, Carmina medii aevi posterioris latina, 2/7-9 (Göttingen, 1982-6)

Primary sources

Manuscripts

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402
• Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys MS 2498
• Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 883 (R.14.7)
• London, British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra C. vi
• London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A. xiv
• London, British Library, Cotton MS Titus D. xviii
• London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius E. vii
• London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius F. vii
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 34
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. MS A.1 (‘the Vernon manuscript’)
• Oxford, Magdalen College, Latin MS 67
• Oxford, Merton College, MS C.1.5 (Coxe 44)
• Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 6276

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Day 1952

Day, Mabel, ed., The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle, edited from Cotton Nero A. xiv, EETS, 225 (London, 1952)

d'Evelyn 1944

d'Evelyn, Charlotte, ed., The Latin Text of the Ancrene Riwle: Edited from Merton College MS. 44 and British Museum MS. Cotton Vitellius E vii, EETS, 216 (London, 1944)

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Humbert 1605

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Berthier 1956

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MBVP25 1677

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Lindsay 1911

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Morton 1853

Morton, James, ed. and trans., The Ancren Riwle: a treatise on the rules and duties of monastic life. Edited and translated from a semi-Saxon ms. of the thirteenth century, Camden Society Publications 57 (London, 1853)

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Potts, Jennifer, Lorna Stevenson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, ed., Concordance to Ancrene Wisse: MS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 402 (Cambridge, 1993)

Savage 1991

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Thomas 1965

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Zettersten 2000

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Millett 2003a

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Millett 2003b

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