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Lancelot of the Lake

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Edited by Roger Simpson

INTRODUCTION

MANUSCRIPTS

Rough translation draft: Society of Antiquaries MS 905.1 (fols. 1-166);

     905.2 (folios 167-219), c. 1870-73

Calligraphic manuscript: Society of Antiquaries MS. 905.3, vol. 3 (fols. 1-307)

Calligraphic manuscript: Society of Antiquaries MS. 905.4, c. 1870-73, vol. 1 (fair copy of fols. 1-76 of 905.1 with minor rewordings)

Transcription calligraphic manuscripts: Society of Antiquaries 905.4 and 905.3, c. 1870-73. 

Fair copy: "Lancelot du Lac," 8 ff., 7 with versos. Cheltenham Library, EWL Z2: 1991.1016.996. Z2, in Rubaiyat calligraphic script; fair copy with spaces for large initials.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

Faulkner, Peter. "Morris and Old French." JWMS 15.1 (Winter 2002): 43-50.

Simpson, Roger. "Wiliam Morris's Unpubished Arthurian Translations." JWMS 20.4 (Summer 2014).

 

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