1. 1. Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29, f. 173v; Betty Hill, “An Edition of the early Middle English Poema Morale with Introduction and Commentary” (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Oxford, 1957), p. 292, ll. 329–30. Square brackets indicate where words were first omitted by the scribe and then filled in at a later date.
2. 2. Daniel Wakelin, Scribal Correction and Literary Craft: English Manuscripts 1375–1520 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014), pp. 49–53, 63–70.
3. 3. See Daniel Wakelin, “When Scribes Won’t Write: Gaps in Middle English Books,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 36 (2014), 249–78; Wakelin, Scribal Correction, pp. 61–63.
4. 4. The correcting hand appears to be a late thirteenth-century Anglicana, characterized by “looped back” forks at the top of the ascenders on <l> and <h>, and the round looping <w>, as well as the short <s>, which is open and slightly splaying on the upper loop, but closed on the bottom. See M. B. Parkes, English Cursive Book Hands 1250–1500 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 1, plate i, for similar forked ascenders with loops weighted to the right; and Charles Johnson and Hilary Jenkinson, English Court Hand A.D. 1066–1500 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915), p. 42, fig. 10, for <s> and p. 52, fig. 8 for <w>. The copying date for this version of the poem is placed sometime between 1256 and 1300 (Betty Hill, “The History of Jesus College, Oxford MS. 29,” Medium Ævum, 32 [1963], 204), so this correction was probably made by the scribe or another early user.
5. 5. Cf. Das Frühmittelenglische “Poema Morale”: Kristisch Herausgegeben mit Grammatischer Durchprüfung und Deutscher Übersetzung, ed. Hans Marcus (Leipzig: Mayer & Müller, 1934), p. 195, ll. 333–34.