Scribe 1

Short couplets. 2361 lines, including a 7-line passage in French on f.310rb, but excluding 9-line lacuna on f.317ra.

Seven other manuscripts representing three different redactions (Auchinleck is from the C-redaction):
A-redaction:
BL Royal MS 12.c.xii. 1320-40. W. Midlands.
B-redaction:
CUL MS Ff.5.48. 15th century. W. Midlands. Writen by Gilbert Pilkington.
C-redaction:
BL Additional MS 19677. 1390-1400.
CUL Dd.14.2. 15th century, completed before 1432.
Bodleian Library MS 15432 (Rawlinson poet. 145). Fist half of the 14th century. Zettle xxiii: '...It now forms part of a slender volume consisting of 13 leaves ... fols. 6-12 are the actual MS, seven mutilated leaves of vellum, disarranged by the binder...'.
BL Cotton Caligula A.ix. Single leaf. First half of the 14th century. (Note: Zettl has 'A.xi').
olim Phillipps (Sotheby Sale Cat., June 29, 1936, Lot 105). Present owner unknown.

Related MS:
CUL Gg.I.1. Translation of the Chronicle into Anglo-Norman prose, early 14th century.

Edition:
E. Zettl, An Anomymous Short English Metrical Chronicle, EETS OS 196 (London: Oxford University Press, 1935). (With all variants).

Another edition:
M. C. Carroll and R. Tuve, 'Two Manuscripts of the Middle English Anonymous Riming Chronicle', PMLA, 46 (1931): 115-154. (Edition of Auchinleck and Rawlinson 145; Auchinleck: 117-148).

Index 1105.