Scribe 2

6-line stanzas of four long lines, a bob and one long line, rhyming aabbcc. 476 lines. Ends imperfect with last leaf missing from the gathering.

The Auchinleck text is a unique copy of the A-redaction.
B-redaction:
Bodleian Library MS 48 (formerly MS 18885). Second quarter of the 15th century.
C-redaction:
Cambridge Peterhouse MS 104. Last quarter of the 14th or first quarter of the 15th century.

Edition:
D. Embree and E. Urquhart, The Simonie: A Parallel-Text Edition, Middle English Texts 24 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1991).

Other editions:
T. W. Ross, A Satire on Edward II's England, Colorado College Studies 8 (Colorado Springs: The Research Committee, Colorado College, 1966). (Critical edition).
E. Kölbing, 'Vier Romanzen-handschriften', Englische Studien, 7 (1884): 177-201.
C. Hardwick, A Poem on the Times of Edward II, Percy Society 28, no. 2 (London: Richards, 1849). (Peterhouse MS of The Simonie printed in seventy-eight eleven-line stanzas).

Index 4165.