A Comparative Analysis of the Text of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales,' based on the Hengwrt Digital Edition, Estelle Stubbs, Ed

Author / Editor
Merrill, Darin A.

Title
A Comparative Analysis of the Text of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales,' based on the Hengwrt Digital Edition, Estelle Stubbs, Ed

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.05 (2009): n.p.

Description
Analysis of the two fundamental CT manuscripts indicates "that the organization and theme of the individual tales affected" copy quality; for example, scribes copied moral tales more conscientiously than they copied bawdy ones, and prose tales were less "carefully" copied than poetic tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General