Libeaus Desconus - Manuscripts

Manuscripts

Versions of Libeaus Desconus can be found in the following manuscripts:

• British Library MS Cotton Caligula A. ii, mid-fifteenth century;
• Lambeth Palace MS 306, mid-fifteenth century;
• Lincoln’s Inn MS Hale 150, late-fourteenth/early-fifteenth century;
• Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61, late-fifteenth century;
• Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples, MS XIII B. 29, mid-fifteenth century;
• British Library Additional MS 27879 (also known as MS Percy), seventeenth century.

Judged by the number of surviving manuscripts, the Libeaus Desconus was the most popular of the Arthurian romances in Middle English.