Overlooked Variants in the Orthography of British Library, Additional MS 35286
- Author / Editor
- Thaisen, Jacob.
Overlooked Variants in the Orthography of British Library, Additional MS 35286
- Published
- Journal of the Early Book Society 11 (2008): 121-43.
- Description
- Thaisen illustrates how a distribution of orthographical variants can be an "internal standard of reference," using as an example the Ad3 manuscript of CT. He comments on the order of tales in the manuscript and on various features of the manuscript's ordinatio, stemmatic relations, planning, and transmission. Tabulating orthographical variants and aligning them with available dialectical information, Thaisen maintains that the manuscript was "copied consecutively" from GP to ParsT, "based on a single exemplar."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.