Reeve's Tale 17 About variant maps Reeve's Tale 18 Reeve's Tale 19
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Reeve's Tale 18 is in 55 witnesses (Edition Ad1 Ad3 Bo1 Bo2 Bw Ch Cn Cp Cx1 Cx2 Dd Dl Ds1 El En1 En3 Fi Gg Gl Ha2 Ha3 Ha4 Ha5 He Hg Hk Ht Ii La Lc Ld2 Ln Ma Mc Mg Mm Ne Nl Ph2 Pn Ps Pw Py Ra1 Ra3 Ry1 Ry2 Se Sl1 Sl2 Tc1 Tc2 To1 Wy)

OUT 4 witnesses (En2 Ld1 Ox2 Ra2)

That Edition Ad1 Ad3 Bo1 Bo2 Ch Cn Cx1 Cx2 Dd Dl Ds1 El En1 En3 Gg Ha4 Ha5 He Hg Hk Ht Ii Ln Mc Ne Nl Ph2 Pn Ps Py Ra1 Ra3 Tc1 Tc2 To1 Wy (37)

For if Ha3 (1)

But if Bw Cp Fi Gl Ha2 La Lc Ld2 Mg Mm Pw Ry2 Se Sl1 (14)

But Ma Sl2 (2)

But yete Ry1 (1)

he ne swoor Edition Ad1 Ad3 Bo1 Bo2 Ch Cn Cx1 Cx2 Dd Dl Ds1 El En1 En3 Gg Ha4 Ha5 He Hg Hk Ht Ii Ln Mc Ne Nl Ph2 Pn Ps Ra1 Ra3 Tc1 Tc2 To1 Wy (36)

he d swoor Ma-orig (1)

he he swoor Sl1 (1)

he ne swoor but Py (1)

he were sure Sl2 (1)

þer did he swoor Ha3 (1)

he swoor Bw Cp Fi Gl Ha2 La Lc Ld2 Ma-mod Mg Mm Pw Ry1 Ry2 Se (15)

he sholde anon Edition Ad1 Ad3 Bw Ch Cp Dd Dl Ds1 El En1 En3 Gl Ha2 Ha5 Hg Hk Ht La Lc Ld2 Ln Mg Mm Pw Ra3 Ry1 Ry2 Sl1 Tc1 (30)

he sholde Ha3 (1)

anon he sholde Bo1 Cn Cx1 Cx2 Fi Ha4 He Ii Ma Mc Ne Nl Ph2 Pn Ps Ra1 Se Sl2 Tc2 To1 Wy (21)

that he sholde Py (1)

that he sholde anon Bo2 Gg (2)

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On the left hand side of the screen you will see what we call "Variant Maps." These are hypotheses of relationships among the manuscripts, created by phylogenetic software developed by evolutionary biologists to explore relationships among species. For explanation of how we use these maps see....