Baker, Murphy & Hall say that the dialect is possibly end of the fifteenth
century, so a little earlier than the copy, if they're right. This ref. is
on p. xxxii of their introduction.
Jennifer
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Subject: Re: dating the Digby plays
Digby 133 is a composite manuscript, with several parts
dating from the seventeenth century; the watermarks in the
paper on which Mary Mag. is written would support a date of
around 1520, give or take half a decade or so. This date is
also supported by the hand, which is transitional Anglicana
> Secretary. You have to keep in mind, of course, that the
date of the manuscript and the date of the composition of
the play may be significantly different!
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