Ductia Manuscript

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This early Middle English rota, a canon for several voices, survives in a manuscript from Reading Abbey dating from the mid-thirteenth century (for fuller information on the ownership and contents of Harley 978, with a reproduction of the relevant page, see the manuscript). The alternative Latin text in red ink beneath it is a lyric on the Passion. The main critical debate on the poem has centred on the relationship between the two texts: which came first, and what is the relationship between them?

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1. Sumer Is Icumen In (Rotta)
2. Ductia V
3. Sumer Is Icumen In, Rotta (XIV c)
4. Ductia I
5. Ductia IV

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