Scribe 1

12-line tail-rhyme stanza, rhyming aabaabccbddb. 1235 lines, including 7 extra lines supplied in Perryman's edition (355-7, 748-50, 1142). Ends imperfect.

Two other manuscripts:
Bodleian Library MS 3938 (Bodl. poet. A.1) (Vernon). W. Midlands. Late 14th or early 15th century. Vernon also has in common with Auchinleck: The Legend of Pope Gregory, Þe Desputisoun Bitven þe Bodi and þe Soule and The Sayings of St Bernard.
BL Additional MS 22283 (Simeon). W. Midlands. 1380-1400. Simeon also has Þe Desputisoun Bitven þe Bodi and þe Soule in common with Auchinleck.

Edition:
J. Perryman, The King of Tars: Edited from the Auchinleck Manuscript, Advocates 19.2.1, Middle English Texts 12 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1980).

Another edition:
F. Krause, 'Kleine Publicationen aus der Auchinleck-hs: IX, The King of Tars', Englische Studien, 11 (1888): 33-62. (Vernon and Auchinleck MSS in parallel with variants from Simeon).

Manual I, 130; 289. Index 1108.