A Mumming at Eltham:
Trinity R.3.20 Verses
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Folio 20 Recto (Page 39)
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To fore þe kynge at Elthame • Notes
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The EETS edition has "laude," but based on comparison with "sende" above, "and" in line three of the previous verse, and the text of British Library Additional 29729 it seems more likely it is "lande." ↩
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There is a "b" over the "al" of "also," indicating that there is a correction. MacCraken noted this and has correctly laid out the two lines in the EETS volume. There is a similar correction in British Library Additional 29729 ↩
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There is an "a" over the "of" here, indicating that there is a correction. MacCracken noted this and correctly laid out the two lines in the EETS edition. There is a similar correction in British Library Additional 29729. ↩
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The ink color shifts here to a shade of black, similar to the headers of each page, as opposed to the brown of the text proper. This suggests that the mark after katerinam is meant to terminate the note. MacCraken renders this termination as a semi-colon. ↩
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MacCracken renders "henri" as "Henrie" on the basis, I assume, of a slight mark after the i which could also be an otiose mark from completeing the finishing stroke. ↩
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MacCraken corrects this to "remuwe," which is certainly better for Lydgate's likely intent. It should be noted, however, that British Library Additional 29729 has "renewe." ↩
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The scribe here has made an error, dropping a line which they have added at the end. A "b" is inserted here above the line indicating that the following two words are to be read second. ↩
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The scribe has inserted a "a" above the a in the following word, indicating that it is to be read first before "al hevynesse," which comes before. ↩
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There is also what appears to be an erasure covered by a piece of contemporary paper to the right, which may be an attempt to correct the line. It should be noted that there is no evidence of a hole on the opposite side, so it could be possible to determine the words corrected with multispectral methods. ↩
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The text from the missing piece in this and the following lines is supplied from the EETS version in the XML. The text will appear when the text decoration is removed. The word "grounded," however, can be determined from the remainder of the letters on the line and thus is included with the green line indicating damage. ↩
The work on this manuscript witness was generously sponsored by a ZKS-Lendrum Fellowship in the Scientific Study of Manuscripts and Inscriptions at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. The transcription of this work is owned by the editor and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images are owned by the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge and are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.