Abstract
In the Middle English Dictionary, Berwick-on-Tweed, the famous town on the border of England and Scotland, is Ber( e )wick: "a place where barley is grown." In the two copies of Thomas Bradwardine's treatise on Artificial Memory, the reference to Berwick ignores the etymology and provides instead animal figures so bizarre that they call for an explanation. While, like others before me, I make the humble disclaimer that "I am nat textueel," I hope to offer a solution by adopting the method that Chaucer attributed to Bradwardine, namely, to "bult it to the bren" (NPT 4430).
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