## Information on 1200-brut

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | Layamon: Brut
> File name | 1200-brut
> Manuscript | British Museum MS. Cotton Caligula A. ix and British Museum MS. Cotton Otho C. xiii (about 50 years later)
> Date | 1190–1215
> Dialect | West Midlands
> Genre | Verse
> Edition | Brook, G. L. and R. F. Leslie (ed.), 1963––78) Laȝamon: Brut, edited from British Museum MS. Cotton Caligula A. ix and British Museum MS. Cotton Otho C. xiii, Early English Text Society, 250, 277, 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press.
> Sample | Pp. 480, line 9230–750, line 14298
> Remarks | This text was not part of previous releases. It has been added for comparison with cmbrut3.m3. Available online at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=LayCal The following information was kindly supplied by Richard Zimmermann. Line 3 of the poem reads, "He [= Layamon] wonede at Ernleȝe" (now Areley Kings) in Worcestershire. The authorial dialect is therefore probably West Midlands. This dialect also has a high prior probability since most Middle English texts from that time come from that region (Katherine Group, Ancrene Riwle, Wooing Group, ...). The text exists in two manuscripts. Cotton Caligula A.9 (1250-1300) is very likely also West Midlands based on an investigation of "Owl and Nightingale." However, the manuscript language is complex since it involves several scribes copying from several exemplars with different writing systems. It's not clear which scribe copied Layamon. The second manuscript Cotton Otho C.13 (1250-1300) has been localised to "NW Wilts" by LAEME (http://archive.ling.ed.ac.uk/ihd/laeme2_scripts/search_cross_ref.php?fieldVal=London,%20British%20Library,%20Cotton%20Otho%20C%20xiii), so it is more Southern.