Scribe 1
6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 42 lines. Begins imperfect.
Five other MS versions. The Auchinleck text contains lines 121-32 and 157-80 of the text
in Bodley Laud Misc. 108; see: F. J. Furnival, Minor Poems of the
Vernon Manuscript, part 2, EETS OS 117 (London: Trübner, 1901).
The Auchinleck text also corresponds
with the text of Ubi sount in Digby 86:
Bodleian Library MS 1486 (Laud Misc. 108). c.1275-1325. Laud 108 also
has Þe Desputisoun Bitven þe Bodi and þe Soule in common with Auchinleck.
Bodleian Library MS 1687 (Digby 86). Digby also has in common with Auchinleck:
The Harrowing of Hell, How Our Lady's Sauter was First Found and
The Thrush and the Nightingale.
Bodleian Library MS 30314 (Additional E.6(a)).
BL Harley 2253. W. Midlands (Ludlow). c.1310. Harley also has in common
with Auchinleck: The Harrowing of Hell and the Alphabetical Praise of Women.
Bodleian Library MS 3938 (Bodl. poet A.1) (Vernon). W. Midlands. Late 14th or early 15th century.
Vernon also has in common with Auchinleck: The Legend of Pope Gregory, Þe Desputisoun
Bitven þe Bodi and þe Soule and
The King of Tars.
Edition:
H. Varnhagen, 'Zu Mittelenglischen Gedichten', Anglia, 3 (1880): 275-292.
('VII: Noch Einmal zu den Sprüchen des Heiligen Bernhard': 291-292).
Another edition:
D. Laing, A Penni Worth of Witte, Abbotsford Club (Edinburgh, 1857): 119-120.
Index 2865; 3310.