Scribe 1

Short couplets. 604 lines in Bliss's edition, which includes a 38-line prologue borrowed from Lay le Freine; see: A. J. Bliss, 'Sir Orfeo lines 1-46', English and Germanic Studies , 5 (1952-53): 7-14.

Two other manuscripts:
BL Harley MS 3810. Early 15th century. Warwickshire? Complete text of 509 lines including prologue.
Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61. Late 15th century. N. E. Midlands. Complete text of 603 lines.

Edition:
A. J. Bliss, Sir Orfeo, second edition (Oxford: Clarendon, 1966).

Other editions:
A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval Publications for TEAMS, 1995). (Includes an electronic version of the text).
D. B. Sands, Middle English Verse Romances (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1986).
B. Ford, The Age of Chaucer (With an Anothology of Medieval Poems) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969). (Normalised text based on Sisam).
W. H. French and C. B. Hale, Middle English Metrical Romances (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930).
K. Sisam, Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose (Oxford: Clarendon, 1921).
A. S. Cook, A Literary Middle English Reader (Boston: Ginn and Co, 1915).
M. Shackford, Legends and Satires (Boston: Ginn and Co, 1913). (After Laing).
O. Zielke, Sir Orfeo (Breslau: Koebner, 1880). (Critical edition of all MSS).
D. Laing, Selected Remains of Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland (Edinburgh: Printed for Wm. & D. Laing by Balfour and Clarke, 1821-22). Revised by W. C. Hazlitt, Early Popular Poetry of Scotland (London: Reeves and Turner, 1895).

Manual I, 135; 293. Index 3868.