Information on cmedthor.m34

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Text name The Mirror of St. Edmund (Thornton Ms.)
File name cmedthorn.m34
Manuscript Lincoln Cathedral Library 91 (Thornton ms.)
Date c1440 (?1350)
Dialect North
Genre Religious treatise
Edition Perry, George G. 1969. The mirror of St. Edmund. In George G. Perry (ed.), Religious pieces in prose and verse. EETS O.S. 26. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Third edition (first edition 1867, second edition 1914).
Sample Pp. 16-50, exhaustive
Remarks

This is a northern version of a translation of the Latin Speculum S. Edmundi by Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Pontigny, around 1350, possibly from a Southern exemplar. The Mirror of St. Edmund (Vernon ms.) is another version of this text.

This text is not included in the Helsinki Corpus.