Knyghthode and Bataile (MS 243)

Manuscript English United Kingdom

Robert Parker, John Neele

Canonical witness from Wiktenauer Manuscripts source row 25. Source date: 1460. The identifier is included in the work title to prevent false duplicate matching.

Quality phase 333: Pembroke MS 243 is the earliest of four known witnesses of Knyghthode and Bataile, composed in 1458–1460 and presented to Henry VI. It is probably not an autograph copy.

Quality phase 387: superseded the categorical John Neele attribution. The current METS edition argues that Robert Parker is the likelier author but explicitly retains uncertainty; Neele remains documented as Wakelin’s earlier proposal. Internal historical references place composition after 1459 and before July 1460.

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TitleKnyghthode and Bataile (MS 243)

AuthorRobert Parker, John Neele

Earliest publication dateUnknown

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited Kingdom

Document typeManuscript

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Robert Parker (probable); John Neele (earlier attribution)

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Robert Parker, John Neele

Edition History

Knyghthode and Bataile (MS 243) 1460

CityNot specified

PublisherNot specified

PrinterNot specified

FormatOctavo vellum manuscript in post-medieval binding; Secretary hand with Anglicana forms; rubricated and decorated initials

Pages55 folios

Dimensions241 × 166 mm

Primary manuscript witness. Wiktenauer source row 25; identifier: MS 243; source date: 1460.

Quality phase 333: Pembroke College MS 243 contains the work on fols. 1r–55v and is the earliest known witness, though probably not autograph.

Quality phase 387: retained 1460 as an approximate production/composition anchor and documented the revised, explicitly uncertain attribution to Robert Parker over John Neele.

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Middle English Texts Series — MS 243 description

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Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=manual_source_review. The source type is not decisive from metadata and requires a targeted manual check. External probe: HTTP 200; content type text/html; charset=utf-8.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=manually_reviewed_no_reusable_exact_image; source manually reviewed; no sufficiently precise and reusable exact-object image was obtainable in this pass.

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Created from Wiktenauer Manuscripts batch 9 on 2026-07-17.

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Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=previously_rejected; source had already been individually reviewed and rejected as unsuitable for a reliable edition cover.

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