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.

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.