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tir00208950

Text-inc Id:
tir00208950
Bod-inc Id:
R-081
Headings:
Robin Hood Fragment.
Imprint:
[Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, c.1500]. 4°.
Collation:
unknown. Type: 99 B (a3r). Number of leaves unknown. 34 lines. Type area: 162 ×77 mm (a3r). Leaf a3r: ‘Of hym I have herde myche good | I graunte he ſayd with you to wende. | My bretherne all in fere. | My purpoſe was to have dyned to day | At bly the or dancaſtere |'. Verso of second leaf, line 32: ‘And now they renne away fro me | As beſtes on a rowe. | They take no more hede of me |'.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00208950 Not in Pr; Dobson and Taylor, Rymes of Robin Hood, 71-3; Duff 361; Sheppard 7473; STC 13687. LCN: 14464171
Copies:
  1. R-081(1) Copy A fragment consisting of two conjugate leaves, the first signed a3. Binding: Half maroon morocco; bound for the Bodleian Library; green paper wrapper from a former binding. Size: 203 × 133 × 6 mm. Size of leaf: 187 × 119 mm. Marginal notes by R. Farmer and Douce. Provenance: Richard Farmer (1735-1797); notes. Joseph Ritson (1752-1803); see Douce's note: ‘See Mr Ritson's Robin Hood . . . This is the fragment there mentioned, which through his kindness I now possess F. Douce. 1798'. Francis Douce (1757-1834), 1798. Bequeathed in 1834. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce Fragm. 16(?). SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. e.12.