A Piers Plowman Manuscript by the Hengwrt/Ellesmere Scribe and Its Implications for London Standard English
- Author / Editor
- Horobin, Simon, and Linne R. Mooney.
A Piers Plowman Manuscript by the Hengwrt/Ellesmere Scribe and Its Implications for London Standard English
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 : 65-112, 2004
- Description
- Attributes Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.17 (which includes the B-text of "Piers Plowman," Richard Rolle's "Form of Living," and a devotional poem) to the Hengwrt/Ellesmere scribe (Scribe B), summarizing and illustrating the graphetic features of his hand.
- Spelling features of the manuscript parallel those of Hengwrt and Ellesmere, indicating that such features are idiosyncratic rather than evidence of a rising standard. The scribe (like Scribe D) was probably a "full-time" textwriter or a freelance scribe.
- Contributor
- Mooney, Linne R.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.