The Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales': Different Scribes
- Author / Editor
- Ramsey, Roy Vance.
The Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales': Different Scribes
- Published
- Studies in Bibliography 35 (1982): 133-54.
- Description
- Statistical analysis shows CT MSS Hengwrt and Ellesmere as the work of two scribes of closely similar hands, who possibly trained under the same master. The Ellesmere scribe himself is probably "the source of much of the editing" in that MS.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.