Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 6398

DIMEV 6398

IMEV 4008

NIMEV 4008

When Rome is removed into England

The Second Scottish Prophecy, the A Text — in couplets

Note: All MSS show considerable variations, but derive from an original short prophecy, Scottish in sympathy, developing some of the symbols used by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Title(s): The Second Scottish Prophecy

Subjects: prophecies, political

Versification: — two-line — aa

Bibliographic Ghosts: London, Westminster Abbey 27 : not in this manuscript or too faded to detect.

Bad Key: PROHenVIII.

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Lyell 35, ff. 24-25v

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.5, Part IV, ff. 33-34

First Lines:

QWhen Rome Is removyde in to Inglande
And the prest haffys the poppys powre in hande…

Last Lines:

…And oþer burghys abowte wytht þar brade wall
Sall wytht þe lyoune be leff ande longe for euer

Note: 71 lines in rough couplets, some incomplete.

Editions:

Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed. Historical Poems of the XIV and XV Centuries. New York: Columbia UP, 1959: 118.

Stevenson, Joseph. The Scottish Metrical Romance of Lancelot du Lak. Maitland Club 48. Edinburgh, 1839: 157.

Lumby, Joseph Rawson, ed. Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris, with some early Scottish Prophecies. EETS o.s. 42 (1870); repr. 1965.

3.Source: London, British Library Harley 559, f. 10

First Lines:

When Rome is Remevyd into Ingland
And euerye prist hathe popes power In hand…

Last Lines:

…Covetous & Lecherye is the vice
Then shall it bene Lyfe

Note: Fragment: 7 lines only. Seven lines rhyming aaaabbb; followed on f. 10v by prose prophecy of similar content set out in lines but unrhyming except for one embedded couplet(?).

4.Source: London, British Library Sloane 2578, ff. 44v-45

Note: A medley of single lines, written as prose.

5.Source: London, British Library Sloane 2578, f. 67

Note: Lines 1-40 only.

6.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Add. 441C, pp. 49-51

Note: 86 lines.

7.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Llanstephan 119

Note: 95 lines.

8.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Peniarth 26 [olim Hengwrt 133], p. 127

Note: Fragment: 7 lines only; formerly 4010.

9.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Peniarth 27, pp. 129-131

10.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Peniarth 50, pp. 4-7

Note: 90 lines; formerly 4011.

11.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Peniarth 94 [olim Hengwrt 412], pp. 174; 262; 167

Note: First 35 lines, then another 33 lines, and last 13 lines.

12.Source: London, Westminster Abbey 27, f. 31v

Note: If this record is in MS it would be on f. 32, but too faded to make out.

13.Source: Untraced, Present whereabouts unknown olim Mostyn Hall 133, pp. 331-341

Note: 96 lines; Hamer (1995)

XHamer, Richard. A Manuscript Index to the Index of Middle English Verse. London: British Library, 1995

lists as Unidentified, Missing or Destroyed.

Editions:

Haferkorn, Reinhard, ed. When Rome is Removed into England, eine politische Prophezeiung des 14. Jahrhunders. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie 19. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1932: 92, 104, 112, 114 (composite text).