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Excerpt from The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, Vol. 1: Edited From All Available Mss., With an Attempt to Establish the Lydgate Canon; 1. The Lydgate Canon; 2. Religious Poems
If many additions are made to my Lydgate Canon, they will come chie¿y, I believe, from the numerous private sources, to which, during my year's residence in England, 1907 - 8, I had no access. The only library, known to contain poems by Lydgate, to which I was denied access was Longleat and some future visitor must make collations there with my texts. Fortunately I have other copies, and earlier ones, than any in Longleat.
My thanks are due to Mr. Alfred Rogers Of the Cambridge University Library and to Mr. J. Abrams of the Bodleian for Oopies of certain texts.
To the authorities Of the various public libraries, and to owners Of manuscripts in their private libraries I am greatly obliged for permission to inspect manuscripts. Particular acknowledgment will be made in the notes on manuscripts in my second volume.
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