Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English.

The entries in this Catalogue, some 507 in all, are not unexpectedly less numerous than those which occupy 111 three-column pages in the Linguistic Atlas of Later Medieval English; thus Aberystwyth has here 2 entries as against 16 there, York 2 against 88. The layout of each entry is more formally organized, in up to eight sections, though the bold-type 1, the section preceding each bold-face title, is surely unnecessary and could profitably have been replaced by a serial number within the book; how much time and space would have been saved in personal note-taking by writing a three-digit number rather than London, Public Record Office E132 (Exchequer, K.R. Transcripts of …