Scribe 1

8-line stanzas, rhyming abababab. 591 lines, not including Latin speech-labels or the English title. Ends perfect but with loss of line ends on f.35ra.

Six other manuscripts of variant versions:
BL Additional MS 22283 (Simeon). W. Midland. 1380-1400. Simeon also has The King of Tars in common with Auchinleck.
BL Additional MS 37787. 62 stanzas. Early 15th century.
BL Royal MS 18.A.x. 67 stanzas. c.1425-50.
Bodleian Library MS 1486 (Laud Misc. 108). 61 stanzas. c.1275-1325. Laud 108 also has The Sayings of St Bernard in common with Auchinleck.
Bodleian Library MS 1703 (Digby 102). 67 or 68 stanzas. Early 15th century.
Bodleian Library MS 3938 (Bodl. poet. A.1) (Vernon). 62 stanzas. W. Midland. Late 14th or early 15th century. Vernon also has in common with Auchinleck: The Legend of Pope Gregory, The Sayings of St Bernard and The King of Tars.

Edition:
W. Linow, 'Þe Desputisoun Bitwen þe Bodi and þe Soule', Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie, 1 (Erlangen: Böhme, 1889): 25-109.

Another edition:
D. Laing, Owain Miles (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1837): 1-32.

Manual III, 691; 848. Index: 351.