Mum and the sothsegger
By: edited from the manuscripts, Camb. univ. Ll. IV. 14 and Brit. mus. Add. 41666 by Mabel Day and Robert Steele.
Contributors: Day, Mabel,; Steele, Robert, 1860-1944.; Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Series: Early English text society.  Original series, no. 199. 1936 (for 1934)
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford university press; Kraus Reprint
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Work titles: Mum and the sothsegger.
Notes: Two fragmentary poems; the first (known in the 16th century as Mum, Sothsegger) forms part of a collection of treatises added to a copy of the B text of Piers Plowman in the Cambridge university library Ll. IV. 14; edited by Skeat in his edition of Piers Plowman under the title "Richard the Redeles", and ascribed by him to Langland.  Edited by Thomas Wright for the Camden society, 1838 and in his Political poems and songs, 1859 (v.1, p. 368-417) under title "On the deposition of Richard II."  The second fragment, a recently discovered 15th century manuscript (now Brit. mus. Add. 41666) is considered by the present editors identical in language and form with the first and with it forming part of one larger composition.  cf. Introduction, Camb. hist. Eng. lit., v.2, p. 41-42; Brit. mus. quarterly, v.3, p. 100-102.