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The author’s father was James Murray of the Oxford EnglishDictionary.
EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
Original Series, No. 141
1911 (reprinted 1964)
Price 30s.
British Museum, MS. Harl. 2253. c.1307. fol. 57 v. (slightly reduced)
At the time of text preparation (September 2010), a full-color image ofthis page (f. 59v) was available online at the British Library. The words “slightlyreduced” refer to the image size in the printed book.
ORIGINAL SERIES.
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH POEM,
PRINTED FROM TWENTY-FOUR MANUSCRIPTS,
EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY,
BY
HILDA M. R. MURRAY
Published for
THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
by the
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
FIRST PUBLISHED 1911
REPRINTED 1964
Original Series, No. 141
REPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN GREAT BRITAIN
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD
BY VIVIAN RIDLER
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
