Dr Daniel Sawyer: List of publications

This article describes and discusses nine previously unrecorded fragments of a lost copy of The Prick of Conscience. I combine close examination of the fragments themselves with quantitative data gathered from more than ninety other copies of the poem to reconstruct the manuscript they represent in a somewhat experimental exercise in reconstructive codicology. I also bring out these fragments' implications for the debate over the sheer size of the corpus of surviving copies. A transcription of the text on the fragments is included in an appendix.