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T HOMAS WRIGHT, in his edition of Nigel Wireker's Speculum Stultorum for the Rolls Series (No. 59), used three MSS, which he called A, B, and C, and one printed edition, P. With the incunabula of this work I hope to deal at another time; for the present I am concerned only with the MSS, and the readings of P need not trouble us at the moment.1 A is Harleian 2422, a thirteenth-century MS., containing only this work and lacking the last 350 lines or so, i.e., about eight leaves. It has the prose preface, and is well equipped with paragraph headings. B is Arundel 23, a fifteenth-century MS. in a beautiful Italian Renaissance hand recalling the best style of the twelfth century. It likewise has lost several leaves, the gap covering pp. 41-59 of Wright's edition, nearly 440 lines, and it ends in the middle of a page, 36 lines too soon ('condicione sui'), with 'Explicit Burnellus' following. The initial letters of paragraphs are in blue, but there are no headings, except in the passage describing the different religious orders (Wr., pp. 82 ff.). C is a fourteenth-century MS. of the Cotton collection, Titus A xx, and a sad contrast to the foregoing, so far as appearance and legibility are concerned. Except for the prose preface, which is altogether lacking, the poem is complete. It is bound up with a great many others, including five poems attributed to Walter Map, and as many chiefly patriotic, by Robert Baston, and some Goliardic verse; towards the end of the collection comes a work entitled 'De Norfolciensium moribus, seu descripcio Norfolcie per monachum quendam Petroburgensem,' followed by 'Descripcionis illius impugnacio,' which may throw some light on its provenance (see p. 440 below).