%0 Electronic Article %A Meech, Sanford B. %I Modern Language Association (MLA) %D 1934 %D 1934 %G English %@ 0030-8129 %@ 1938-1530 %~ Katalog UB TU-Chemnitz %T Nicholas Bishop, an Exemplar of the Oxford Dialect of the Fifteenth Century %V 49 %J PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America %V 49 %N 2 %P 443-459 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/458169 %X Nicholas Bishop was a well-to-do brewer of Oxford. As he tells us in the first passage printed below, he was the son of a citizen of that place, Bartholomew Bishop, and of his wife, Isabelle, the daughter and heir of Walter Gregory of Watford. He was a litigious man. In furtherance of his actions at law, he compiled with his own hand a volume of annotated transcripts of deeds from various sources, now Cambridge University MS. Dd. xiv. 2. This volume, although mainly in Latin, contains some very interesting specimens of Oxford English, namely: two passages concerning a litigation of Bishop's with the Abbot of Oseney, a version of the Short Metrical Chronicle made to conform more or less to Bishop's dialect, and a series of historical notes following it, presumably composed by him. A note in the manuscript gives its date:Memorandum quod in Vigilio Sancti Martini in Anno domini MoCCCCmoxxxij: Anno que rregni henrici vjti Istud librum primitus fuit ffinitum. per Nicholaum Bysshop de Oxon “filium & heredem Bartholomei Bysshopp.” %Z https://katalog.bibliothek.tu-chemnitz.de/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuMjMwNy80NTgxNjk %U https://katalog.bibliothek.tu-chemnitz.de/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuMjMwNy80NTgxNjk