Handmade Tales: The Implications of Linguistic Variations in Two Early Manuscripts of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Smith, Jeremy J.

Title
Handmade Tales: The Implications of Linguistic Variations in Two Early Manuscripts of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 551-60.

Description
Although the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts were both copied by "Scribe B," their differences indicate how a variety of factors affect textual transmission.

Alternative Title
Studies in Middle English Linguistics.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.