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
v. Cotton Cleopatra C 6 [_corrected by author from “C 5”_]
#Literature:# ... Mühe, T. [Muhe]
#Phonology:# ... but _u_ in wule 72
[_“u” misprinted as bold instead of italic_]
#ā# is regularly ... (beside leasse 61 (4), leaste b 188)
[(4) leaste]
#ū#, _u_; [_u_,]
#ea# before #r# ... ȝeouen b 71 [ȝeouen,]
#ēa# is regularly ... #ȝīet# is ȝet b 193
[_printed as shown: apparent error for “gīet”_]
#a# + #g# ... in MS. C ploȝe [C. ploȝe]
Final #ig# is regularly _i_
[_“i” misprinted as bold instead of italic_]
#siehst#, #siehð# with _i_-umlaut
[_“i” misprinted as bold instead of italic_]
#ea# before #r# ... and _a_, after #w#
[_#w# misprinted as italic instead of bold_]
before length. groups _o_ [length groups]
#eo#, _u_- and _å_-umlaut of #i#
[_#i# misprinted as italic instead of bold_]
(4) =Of T and C.= ... investigation of Mühe [Muhe]
Three-fourths of the infinitives ... witen _pr. pl. subj._
[_pr. pl. subj._,]
idon _pp._ b 176; [176,]
(2) =Of B.= ... sunnen 26, earen 71 are _s. d._ [_d. s._]
(3) =Of N.= ... ueonde 139 is _s. d._, [_comma missing_]
Infinitives end in -en ... II. bitinde 183: [183.]
Infinitives are divided ... II. bitende 183: [183;]
#Vocabulary:# ...
[_all commas in this paragraph are printed (or missing) as shown_]
[IX A.]
3. ... inter scorpiones et colubros [colubres]
32. ... F. T has ‘þe ondfule ⁊ te luðere [_open quote missing_]
37. ... a windes puf [þuf]
[IX B.]
26. ... Grossioribus peliciis utatur [_spelling unchanged_]
65. #broche#: ‘fermail,’ F; ‘firmaculos,’ [_open quote missing_]
68. #forte--wið#, with which to get yourselves friends
[_“with” added by author_]
75. #efter#: see 7/53. [#efter#;]
78. The amice, L. amictus [L amictus]
103. ... p. *lvi ... see NED. _s.v._ Here § 16. [N.E.D.]
207. ... apposition to #ower#
[_#ower# misprinted as plain (non-bold)_]
X. IN DIEBUS DOMINICIS
#Manuscript:# Lambeth, 487: see p. 312.
#Editions:# Morris, R., OEH i. 41-47, and Specimens, 17-21;
Zupitza-Schipper, AE Lesebuch, ed. viii, 92-95.
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