1. Transcription from G.L. Brook, ed., The Harley Lyrics: The Middle English Lyrics of Ms. Harley 2253 (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1948), 55
2. Carter Revard, “Scribe and Provenance,” in Studies in the Harley Manuscript; The Scribes, Contenta, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253, ed. Susanna Fein (Kalamazoo: Medieval Inst., 2000), 21–109.
3. David Bates, Julia Crick, and Sarah Hamilton, eds., Writing Medieval Biography: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2006), vii–ix.
4. Attributed to K.B. McFarlane (1973), this position is disputed in Bates et al., Writing Medieval Biography, vii, 8. Cf. George T. Beech, “Biography and the Study of 11th-Century Society: Bishop Peter II of Poitiers 1087–1115,” Francia 7 (1979–1980): 101–121; also R.M. Haines, The Church and Politics in Fourteenth-Century England: The Career of Adam Orleton c.1275–1345 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978), vii.
5. Dan Terkla, “The Original Placement of the Hereford Mappa Mundil” Imago Mundi 56:2 (2004): 131–151.