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London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A.ix (C), ff. 233ra--246ra
Oxford, Jesus College MS 29 (J), ff. 156ra--168vb

See further the full bibliography in Cartlidge (2001).

Atkins, J.W.H., ed. The Owl and the Nightingale. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1922. PR 2109 

Barber, Richard, trans. Bestiary: being an English version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original miniatures reproduced in facsimile. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993.

Barratt, Alexandra. 'Flying in the face of tradition: a new view of The Owl and the Nightingale.' University of Toronto Quarterly 56 (1987), 471-85.

Cartlidge, Neil, 'The Date of The Owl and the Nightingale.' Medium Aevum 65 (1996), 230-47.

Cartlidge, Neil. Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997.
(The Owl and the Nightingale is discussed in Ch. 5).

Cartlidge, Neil. 'The composition and social context of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (ii) and London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A. ix'. Medium Aevum 66 (1997), 250-69.

Cartlidge, Neil, ed. The Owl and the Nightingale. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001.

Cawley, A. C. 'Astrology in The Owl and the Nightingale.' Modern Language Review 46 (1951), 161-74.

Chardri, Le Petit Plet: see Merrilees.

Coleman, Janet, 'The Owl and the Nightingale and Papal Theories of Marriage'. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 38 (1987), 517-67.

Holtei, Rainer. Norm und Spiel in 'The Owl and the Nightingale'. Studia Humaniora 18. Dusseldorf: Droste, c.1990.

Holsinger, Bruce, 'Vernacular Legality: The English Jurisdictions of The Owl and the Nightingale', in Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington, edd., The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).

Hume, Kathryn. The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poem and its Critics. Toronto: Toronto UP, 1975.

Jacobs, Nicolas. 'The Owl and the Nightingale and the Bishops.' Medieval Literature and Antiquities: Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle, ed. Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987.

Ker, N. R., ed. The Owl and the Nightingale: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Surviving Manuscripts, Jesus College, Oxford, 29, and British Museum, Cotton Caligula A.ix,.EETS o.s. 251. London: Oxford UP, 1963.

Merrilees, Brian S., ed. Le Petit Plet. Anglo-Norman Texts 20. Oxford: Blackwell (published for the Anglo-Norman Text Society), 1970.

Millett, Bella, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, ed., Medieval English Prose for Women, rev. edn. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992).

Stanley, E.G., ed. The Owl and the Nightingale. London: Nelson's Medieval and Renaissance Library, 1960. PR 2109.07.

Stone, Brian, trans. The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, St Erkenwald. London: Penguin Classics, 2nd edn. 1988.

Treharne, Elaine, ed. Old and Middle English: an Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
(Middle English text of O&N, based on Caligula MS, with marginal glosses, pp. 380-415.)

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