Spelling's Significance for Textual Studies

Author / Editor
Blake, Norman, and Jacob Thaisen.

Title
Spelling's Significance for Textual Studies

Published
Special issue, Nordic Journal of English Studies 3.1 (2004): 93-107.

Description
Evaluating two CT manuscripts--Christ Church, Oxford, MS 152 (single exemplar) and British Library MS Harley 7334 (two exemplars)--the authors contend that analysis of spelling can be used to determine changes in exemplars in textual study. Because scribal spelling habits are not uniform, evidence from spelling must be used in conjunction with other codicological evidence.

Contributor
Thaisen, Jacob.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.