Editing the Middle English Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Moorman, Charles.
Editing the Middle English Manuscript
- Published
- Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1975.
- Physical Description
- [ix], 107 pp.
- Description
- A pedagogical introduction to the practices involved in preparing a critical edition of a Middle English text, with commentary on paleography, the language of Middle English, and the processes of textual criticism. Includes reproductions of the early witnesses of the text of Scog (Furnivall's transcriptions of three manuscripts, the Globe edition, Skeat, and Robinson), and solutions to several problems involved in preparing an edition from these witnesses.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Envoy to Scogan
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies