Collation and Its Misuses in Some Middle English Texts

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Title
Collation and Its Misuses in Some Middle English Texts

Published
Christa Jansohn and Bodo Plachta, eds. Varianten - Variants - Variantes. (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005), pp. 79-90.

Description
Edwards comments on the conceptualizations and uses of variants in textual studies of CT and "Piers Plowman," particularly those by Manly and Rickert and by Kane and Donaldson, arguing that some manuscripts are better regarded as separate versions of texts than as sources of individual variants. Edwards considers in this light an excerpted version of the GP description of the Parson found in British Library MS Additional 10340.

Contributor
Jansohn, Christa, ed.
Plachta, Bodo, ed.

Alternative Title
Varianten - Variants - Variantes.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Parson and His Tale.