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Textual Notes to 27. The Shires and Hundreds of England

Incipit

Her bigynneth the syren and the hundredes of Engelonde. MS: Written in red ink.back to note source

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Englelond. MS: Begins with red capital E, three lines high, with blue flourishes.back to note source
fyftene. MS, Morris, Kluge: fyfténe.back to note source
stol. MS, Morris, Kluge: stól.back to note source
Englelond is . . . bispryche. MS: Prose section written on twenty-nine lines.back to note source

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Swo. MS: Begins with blue capital S, two lines high.back to note source
Lothen. So MS (for th, the scribe writes ð (eth), a very rare letter-form in Jesus 29), Morris, Kluge.back to note source
other. So MS (r inserted), Morris, Kluge.back to note source
.i. . . . .ix. So MS (scribe inserts a roman numeral above each shire name), Morris, Kluge.back to note source
Devenaschre. So MS. Morris, Kluge: Devenaschire.back to note source
Bedefordschre. So MS. Morris, Kluge: Bedefordschire.back to note source
Swo we biforan quethen . . . on half hundred. Prose section written on twenty-three lines.back to note source