Manuscript Production Before Chaucer: Some Preliminary Observations

Author / Editor
Da Rold, Orietta.

Title
Manuscript Production Before Chaucer: Some Preliminary Observations

Published
Essays and Studies 63 (2010): 43-58.

Description
Suggests that analysis of the physical makeup of manuscripts is a way to understand the production and use of Middle English texts. Focuses on the multilingualism in texts, the different functions of texts in a single book, and scribal output. Concludes that electronic resources are useful in reevaluating the manuscript production of the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.