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All scholars who have worked with this manuscript agree that it belongs in the east Midlands.

Some attempt has been made to place it as far north as Lincoln ( it was even called the Lincoln cycle by some scholars for a period ), but the general consensus places the manuscript in East Anglia.

Stephen Spector cautiously writes " The linguistic evidence indicates that the codex was recorded principally or exclusively by scribes trained in East Anglia " ( Spector, xxix ) Meredith more positively asserts that The Mary Play comes from Norfolk ( Meredith, 6 ).

However, since the eclectic nature of the MS. has been recognized, scholars have been hesitant to insist that all the plays copied into this anthology were played in the same place.