Textual Notes to Caxton's Table of Chapters

Table of Chapters, Paragraph 1

Here. In R, The Contents of the Chapters is written in rubricated script at the top of the page. A finding aid appears in the right margin where the annotator has written folio in red ink. Beneath it, at the end of each chapter title, the corresponding folio is written in Arabic numerals. The list continues on leaves three and four, and it appears to be by the same hand as The Contents of the Chapters.

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the lady of. R: the of lady the. Emended for sense.

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and sorowe. So R. Not in BN.

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departed fro hir. So R. Not in BN.

where as he dyd mervayllus armes. So R. Not in BN.

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honorably. So R. Not in BN.

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gladly. So R. Not in BN.

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of Blanchardyn and other thynges. So R. Not in BN.

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secretely. So R. Not in BN.

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wyth a grete armye. So R. Not in BN.

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and love. So R. Not in BN.

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Capitulo xxxviii. So R. In the space between Capitulo and xxxviii, chaptre is hand-written in faint brown ink.

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that thei had togyder. So R. Not in BN.

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where they arryved . . . that they dyde. So R. Not in BN.

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her frende and love. So R. Not in BN.

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in grete distresse. So R. Not in BN.

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fol. 5r. The original page listing the remaining five chapters’ titles is missing from R. However, a leaf has been inserted on which the titles are written in a professional gothic script and ornately rubricated. Their numbers and folios are listed in Arabic numerals in two columns on the right side of the page.