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Mummings and Entertainments: Bibliography
MANUSCRIPTS
Bycorne and Chychevache. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.19; London, British Library MS Harley 2251.
Disguising at Hertford. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; London, British Library, MS Additional 29729.
Disguising at London. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; London, British Library, MS Additional 29729.
Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London. London, British Library MS Cotton Cleopatra C.iv; London, British Library MS Cotton Julius B.ii.; London, British Library, MS Harley 565; London, Guildhall, MS 3313; Longleat House 257, at end of MS (stanzas 1–23 only); Rome, English College Library, MS1306 (also numbered 127 and A.347). Printed by Pynson, 1516.
Legend of St. George. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 686; Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.21; Manchester, Chetham Library MS 6709.
Mesure Is Tresour. London, British Library, MS Harley 2255.
Mumming at Bishopswood. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 59.
Mumming at Eltham. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; London, British Library, MS Additional 29729.
Mumming at Windsor. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; London, British Library, MS Additional 29729.
Mumming for the Goldsmiths. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; London, British Library, MS Additional 29729.
Mumming for the Mercers. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20. London, British Library, MS Additional 29729.
Of the Sodein Fal of Princes in Oure Dayes. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; London, British Library MS Harley 2251; London, British Library MS Additional 29729.
Pageant of Knowledge. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.21; extracts, not meant for performance, in several other manuscripts.
Procession of Corpus Christi. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.20; London, British Library MS Harley 2251; London, British Library MS Additional 29729.
Soteltes at the Coronation Banquet of Henry VI. Oxford, St John’s College Library, MS 57; London, British Library, MS Cotton Julius B.i.; London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 285; London, British Library, MS Egerton 1995; London, Guildhall, MS 3313; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.775.
In Appendix:
Margaret of Anjou’s Entry into London, 1445. London, British Library, MS Harley 3869. Transcribed by Stow, British Library, MS Harley 542.
Mumming of the Seven Philosophers. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.3.19.
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