Cats and mice at war
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 44). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: c.1320–1330 in the cited copy
Region: Southern England, possibly London
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1320 CE to 1330 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A multi-page war between mice and cats runs through BL Harley MS 6563 ff.71v–75r.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
A cat–mouse battle sequence survives within one cited manuscript.
What remains uncertain
Several pages in the same work are not evidence that other people adopted and spread this sequence.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria