Paleography and Scribes of Shared Training

Author / Editor
Ramsey, Roy Vance.

Title
Paleography and Scribes of Shared Training

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 8 (1986): 107-44.

Description
New manuscript data reaffirm Ramsey's earlier argument that different scribes copied the Hengwrt and Ellesmere MSS of CT; M. L. Samuels is wrong in arguing that a single scribe copied these manuscripts and MS Corpus Christi 198. Handwriting alone is not a reliable criterion for distinguishing among scribal hands: different scribes could imitate each others's hand, as in MS Glasgow Hunterian U.1.1., though scribal "schools" may be distinguished.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.