The 'Hooked G' Scribe and His Work on Three Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Horobin, S. C. P.
The 'Hooked G' Scribe and His Work on Three Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 99 (1998): 411-17.
- Description
- The similar scribal features of three manuscripts of CT (Devonshire; Trinity College, Cambridge R.3.3; and Bodleian Rawlinson Poetry 223) have sometimes been attributed to a group of scribes and supervisors. This attribution has been used to support the "bookshop theory" (concerning centralized and commercial production of literary manuscripts).
- The coherent linguistic forms of these three manuscripts (and of associated manuscripts of Gower and Lydgate), however, point to their being the work of a single scribe, likely an emigre to London from Kent.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.