Scribe 3

Short couplets. Ends imperfect. f.84Ara is a stub of 44 lines transcribed by E. Kölbing, 'Vier Romanzen-Handschriften', Englische Studien, 7 (1884): 185. 1068 lines survive in Auchinleck; Schleich calculates 8 lines omitted.

Five other manuscripts with variant texts:
Bodleian Library MS 21835 (Douce 261). 1564. Transcript of an early print. Fragments.
Bodleian Library MS 14528 (Rawlinson F.34). Late 15th century.
CUL Ff.2.38 (olim no. 690). Late 15th century. Ff.2.38 also has in common with Auchinleck: A Peniworþ of Witt, Sir Beues of Hamtoun, The Seven Sages of Rome and Guy of Warwick (different version).
BL Egerton MS 2862 (olim Trentham-Sutherland). Late 14th century. Suffolk. Fragments. Egerton also has in common with Auchinleck: King Richard, Sir Beues of Hamtoun, Floris and Blancheflour and Amis and Amiloun.
BL Additional MS 27879 (Percy Folio). c.1650. The Percy Folio also has a version of Of Arthour and of Merlin in common with Auchinleck.

Editions:
A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS, 1995). (Includes an electronic version of the text).
G. Schleich, 'Sir Degarre, Englische Textbibliothek 19 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1929). Corrected text in N. Jacobs, 'The Later Versions of Sir Degarre: A Study in Textual Degeneration', Medium vum Monographs, n.s. 18 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1995).

Other editions and studies:
W. H. French and C. B. Hale, Middle English Metrical Romances (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930). (Auchinleck MS completed from Ff.2.38).
M. B. Carr, 'Sir Degarre', unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago (1924). (All MSS and prints except Rawlinson).
D. Laing, Sire Degarre, Abbotsford Club (Edinburgh: Alex. Laurie and Co., 1849).

Manual I, 140; 296. Index 1895.