Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 and the 'Scotticization' of Middle English Verse
- Author / Editor
- Boffey, Julia,and A. S. G. Edwards.
Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 and the 'Scotticization' of Middle English Verse
- Published
- Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 3-13.
- Description
- Assesses orthographic and lexical "Scottishisms" and their effects on meter in the poems of Bodleian MS Arch Selden B. 24, including TC, PF, LGW, CT, Truth, and poems by Hoccleve, Lydgate, and others. The density of such Scottishisms is generally "variable and relative, open to extension and intensification," although there is some evidence of increased "Scottification" in manuscripts copied later than Selden B. 24.
- Alternative Title
- Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Style and Versification.
- Language and Word Studies.