Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
iv. ... A leaf is lost after f. 8 [f 8]
Other MSS. are v. Digby A 4, Bodleian D [_“D” added by author_]
The dialect of PM is South-Eastern
[_printed as shown: error for “M” alone?_]
#ēa# is _ea_ in deaþe 182
[_paragraph break added by transcriber for consistency_]
.... #ā# + #g# produces _aȝ_, aȝen 30 (5), maȝe 29, but ahen 161:
[_final : invisible_]
For #sw# ... _qu_ is the regular equivalent of #cw#
[_#cw# misprinted as italic instead of bold_]
#ēa# is mostly ... but _ie_ in bien 389
[_“ie” misprinted as bold instead of italic_]
#gēar#, ȝier 142 [_corrected by author from “gear”_]
#a# + #g# ... #ǣ{1}# + #g# is _ei_ [#æ{1}#]
#ēa# + #h# in heie 16 [#ea#]
... #þþ# is simplified in seðen [#þ#]
#Accidence:# ... _d._ -e, gode 73
[_-e misprinted as italic_]
_s. g._, are 179, _s. d._, 53 [_s. d._ 53]
... The _s. d._ regularly terminates in e
[_“e” misprinted as italic_]
Remnants of the strong declension ... (with woreldes _f._) [_f_]
The infinitives ... past: I a. biȝiete 105, forȝieten 98
[forȝieten, 98]
18. ... (comp. Fr. être < stare) [être > stare]
82. ... OEM 56/682 [OEM.]
142. ... Orm ii. 149/14482 [_“ii.” added by transcriber_]
153. ... OWScand. skǽrr, clean. [OW Scand.]
185. ... maȝhe . . . mei e [meie]
201. ... read iþenchð, iðencð
[iþenchð, iꝥencð _corrected from Zupitza_]
257. ... wes has fallen out after #wif#.
[_#wif# misprinted as plain (non-bold)_]
265. ... to those to whom. [to whom,]
292. ... where #þe# is preceded by another dative
[_#þe# misprinted as plain (non-bold)_]
361. ... in Bartsch & Horning [Hornung]
385. #alle &c.#: to alle derlinges J.
[_printed as shown, with bold “&c.”_]
IX. ANCRENE WISSE
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