Scribes Misattributed: Hoccleve and Pinkhurst.
- Author / Editor
- Warner, Lawrence.
Scribes Misattributed: Hoccleve and Pinkhurst.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 55-100.
- Description
- Critiques the methods and conclusions of various analyses of late medieval English vernacular scribes, challenging the arguments that British Library, MS Royal 17 D.XVIII is Thomas Hoccleve's holograph; that Adam Pinkhurst was "Scribe B" of Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.2 (John Gower's "Confessio Amantis"); that Adam Pinkhurst was the scribe of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere CT manuscripts; and giving various corollary discussions. Finds "no evidence" that Pinkhurst knew Chaucer, even though he did embellish a manuscript of Bo, and calls for renewed attention to all pertinent and available evidence in scribal analysis.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
Adam Scriveyn
Boece