University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Contents These fragments consist of four leaves of the famous Auchinleck Manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland. This manuscript was written in the 1330s in London and contains a collection on Middle English works believed to provide unique insight into the 14th century, not least because some of the Middle English texts within it do not appear elsewhere. These fragments were separated from the main manuscript, and seem to have been used for covers for books.Two of the...

Contents These two leaves are from the Middle English Richard Coer de Lyon that appears in the Auchinleck manuscript. This is a verse text recounting the life of Richard I, King of England, and is both historical and fantastical.The first leaf begins with R[ichard went agayn] wel stille, which is recognisable as line 1745 of the text (according to Weber’s...