The English Text of the `Ancrene Riwle': The Vernon Text: Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. I Early English Text Society Original Series

Author	Arne Zettersten
ISBN	9780197223147
Publisher	Early English Text Society
Manufacturer	Early English Text Society

The `Ancrene Riwle' is a guide for anchoresses written in the thirteenth century. The Vernon version, copied in the fourteenth century, is the last in a series of editions published by the Early English Text Society. The text is reproduced without changes, but includes notes on scribal errors and variant readings from other manuscripts.

The Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse) is a thirteenth-century guide for anchoresses which reached a much wider public in the Middle Ages. The Vernon version, copied in the second half of the fourteenth century, is the last in the series of editions of individual manuscript versions to be published by the Early English Text Society, and follows the editorial methods established by the series. The text of the MS is reproduced as it stands, without emendations. Scribal 'errors' and significant variant readings from two of the most important other MSS are given in the Apparatus.