Two Professional Readers of Chaucer and Langland : Scribe D and the HM 114 Scribe
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
Two Professional Readers of Chaucer and Langland : Scribe D and the HM 114 Scribe
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26: 113-46, 2004
- Description
- Bowers describes the habits and activities of the two scribes, assessing what such factors can tell us about the scribes' careers and early fifteenth-century book production. Scribe D reflects "commercial opportunism" in producing works by prestige poets (Chaucer and Gower); the HM 114 scribe anticipates a later tendency to serve a civic rather than aristocratic clientele. The article also comments on fifteenth-century readership of Chaucer and Langland and on the role of HM 114 in the textual tradition of TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Troilus and Criseyde.