Scribe 1

12-line tail-rhyme stanzas rhyming aabaabccbddb. Four-stress iambic couplets alternating with one iambic three-stress line. 2332 lines. Commences and ends incomplete (supplied in Leach's edition from BL Egerton 2862, and a stanza after line 2060 from Bodley Douce 326).

Composed in the East Midlands at the end of the 13th century.

Three other manuscripts:
BL Egerton MS 2862 (olim Trentham-Sutherland). Late 14th century. Suffolk. Text complete, but 332 lines lost after line 1853. Egerton also has in common with Auchinleck: King Richard, Sir Beues of Hamtoun, Sir Degare and Floris and Blancheflour.
Bodleian Library, MS Douce 326. Dorset. c.1500. Text contains 2395 lines and is relatively complete.
BL Harley MS 2386. Late 15th century. Fragmentary. Amis copied into the MS by William Cressett, apparently a butler, who left the text unfinished.

Edition:
M. Leach, Amis and Amiloun, EETS OS 203 (London: Humphrey Milford for Oxford University Press, 1937).

Other editions:
E. Kölbing, 'Amis und Amiloun', Altenglische Bibliothek, 2 (Heilbronn: Henninger, 1884). (All MSS with French, Latin and Norse texts).
M. R. Weber, Metrical Romances, 3 vols (Edinburgh: Constable, 1810).

Manual I, 167; 325. Index 821.