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Textual Notes to 28. The Eleven Pains of Hell

incipitIci comencent les unze peynes de enfern les queus Seynt Pool vist. MS: Written in red ink on two lines.back to note source

vist. MS: v.back to note source

1Plest. MS: Begins with red capital P, four lines high, with blue flourishes.back to note source

7Unsely. MS: Begins with blue capital V, one line high.back to note source

11Dunke. MS: Begins with red capital D, one line high.back to note source

17Wiltu. MS: Begins with blue capital W, one line high.back to note source

22a. MS, Morris: á.back to note source

30go. MS, Morris: .back to note source

33Erest. MS: Begins with red capital E, one line high.back to note source

35anhon. MS, Morris: anhón.back to note source

41Seththen. MS: Begins with blue capital S, one line high.back to note source

66bote. MS, Morris: bóte.back to note source

67A. MS: Begins with red capital A, one line high.back to note source

75Further. MS: Begins with blue capital F, one line high.back to note source

84hwenne. So MS (hhenne, h2 corrected to w), Morris.back to note source

119Vurther. MS: Begins with red capital U, two lines high.back to note source

131Thenne. MS: Begins with blue capital Þ, two lines high.back to note source

145 Vurther. MS: Begins with red capital U, two lines high.back to note source

147todrawen. So MS. Morris: to-drawen (Morris reads to-drayen and emends, but the letter is a ƿ (= w)).back to note source

163 Vurther. MS: Begins with blue capital U, two lines high.back to note source

165thusen. So MS. Morris: þusend.back to note source

167al. So MS. Morris: reads al or as, prints al.back to note source

175Vurther. MS: Begins with red capital V, one line high.back to note source

176den. So MS (word written above line for lack of space), Morris.back to note source

218him. So MS (word inserted), Morris.back to note source

219 In. MS: Begins with red capital I, two lines high.back to note source

233Vurther. MS: Begins with blue capital F, one line high.back to note source

251 Therunder. MS: Begins with blue capital Þ, two lines high.back to note source

253beond. So MS (o inserted), Morris.back to note source

258leyen. MS, Morris: léyen.back to note source

261Ich. MS: No colored capital.back to note source

269o. MS, Morris: ó.back to note source

271is. So MS (is be with be canceled), Morris.back to note source

281Ki. MS: No colored capital.back to note source

281–82Ki ces . . . avendra. MS: Written in brown ink.back to note source

283Hwoso. MS: No colored capital.back to note source

explicitExpliciunt .xj. pene inferni quas vidit beatus Paulus. MS: written in brown ink.back to note source