The Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales': Different Scribes

Author / Editor
Ramsey, Roy Vance.

Title
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.