The Trinity Gower D-Scribe and His Work on Two Early Canterbury Tales Manuscripts

Author / Editor
Smith, J. J.

Title
The Trinity Gower D-Scribe and His Work on Two Early Canterbury Tales Manuscripts

Published
J.J. Smith, ed. The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays by M.L. Samuels and J.J. Smith (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 51-69.

Description
Analyzes the dialectical "Mischsprachen" (linguistic mixture) in Harley 7334 and Corpus Christi, Oxford, 198, and in products of the Gower D-Scribe. Since all three show an "idiosyncratic mixture of West Worcestershire forms and the learnt form, 'oughne'," they were evidently copied by the same person.

Alternative Title
English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.