Sawles Warde and the Wooing Group ─ Parallel Texts With Notes and Wordlists

This fourth volume completes a project to prepare a complete edition of the Ancrene Wisse Group that is uniform in presentation and consistently diplomatic in approach. The parallel text of Sawles Warde shows divergence between the three manuscripts. In contrast to other groups, say Tanabe and Scahill, there is only one extant manuscript of the Wooing Group, but believe the texts benefit from being part of an edition of this kind, so present the four texts in the Wooing Group in the same manner, though of course without variations. The texts are On Ureison of God Almihti, The Oreison of Seinte Maria, On Lofsong of Ure Louerde, and The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Harumi Tanabe (Seikei University) and John Scahill (Insearch, University of Technology Sydney) represent the six medievalists of the Tokyo Medieval Manuscript Reading Group, which has previously produced diplomatic parallel texts of Ancrene Wisse (2003, 2005) and the Katherine Group (2011).