On Giving Scribe B a Name and a Clutch of London Manuscripts from c. 1400

Author / Editor
Roberts, Jane.

Title
On Giving Scribe B a Name and a Clutch of London Manuscripts from c. 1400

Published
Medium Aevum 80.2 (2011): 247-70.

Description
Challenges the identification of Adam Pynkhurst with Scribe B (the "label nowadays given to the scribe" of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT). Surveys the history of identifying Pynkhurst as Scribe B, examines paleographical and linguistic evidence, and assesses what is known--and what is inferred--about the two figures, arguing that they were separate individuals.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies