As I point out above, any edition requires a bibliographical description of the witnesses to the text. As my initial listing of relevant manuscripts of ‘Super Canticum’ 4 indicates, this task has been performed very well for most of the copies. However, there are omissions, and I fulfil my editorial responsibility by here describing those five copies without published formal descriptions. The examples I offer here differ in format and detail from many of the published accounts of other copies; they deliberately offer you a model for the kinds of information useful for literary readers. Here I adopt one form of abbreviation formal catalogues would avoid: I cite Rolle's works in bold-face and by title only – references to some editions appear in nn. 26–8 and 42.

B Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 861

s. xv in. (parts of text 1 dated 1410–11, and other indications imply 1409–11). Paper, folded in folio; there are two stocks, one of very limited use:

Fols ii (numbered iii–iv) + 168. Overall 290 mm × 210 mm (writing area 220–225 mm × 150–165 mm, up to 170 mm in Booklet 1). With the exception of fols 128vb/28–132ra, later additions, written in a single very cursive anglicana with secretary a and rather pointy secretary ductus. In double columns, around 60–5 lines (68 at fol. 133r) to the page.