## Information on cmkempe-m4

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | The Book of Margery Kempe
> File name | cmkempe-m4
> Manuscript | Ms. in possession of Butler-Bowdon family
> Date | c1450 (probably before)
> Dialect | East Midlands (Lynn, Norfolk?)
> Genre | Religious treatise
> Edition | Meech, Sanford B. and Hope E. Allen. 1940. The Book of Margery Kempe, Vol. 1. EETS O.S. 212. London: Oxford University Press.
> Sample | Pp. 1-154, 221-232
> Remarks | Margery Kempe was born in 1373. She was apparently illiterate, and her book was actually written by two amanuenses, the first an Englishman long resident in Germany, and the second, a priest. The whole was then copied by a scribe, Salthows. According to Meech, the linguistic patterns are those of the priest, whose origin is unknown although he was resident in Lynn, Norfolk. The language of the book is similar to Norfolk in the phonological patterns but not so much in the morphology.

### Helsinki Corpus information

> File name | CMKEMPE
> Text identifier | M4 IR RELT KEMPE
> Text name | MKEMPE
> Author | KEMPE MARGERY
> Period | M4
> Date of original | 1420-1500
> Date of manuscript | 1420-1500
> Contemporaneity | CONTEMP
> Dialect | EMO
> Verse or prose | PROSE
> Text type | REL TREAT
> Relationship to foreign original | X
> Foreign original | X
> Relationship to spoken language | WRITTEN
> Sex of author | FEMALE
> Age of author | X
> Social rank of author | X
> Audience description | X
> Participant relationship | X
> Interaction | X
> Setting | X
> Prototypical text category | INSTR REL
> Sample | SAMPLE X