Scribal Oeuvres: "Chaucer's Scribe" and his "Canterbury Tales."

Published: Ralph Hanna, Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, Their Producers and Their Readers (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013), pp. 132-65.

Description: Chapter 5 in Hanna's book-length introduction to the study of English medieval books and manuscripts, revisiting and offering new and revised opinions of the nature, value, and relations between the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT. Includes discussion of Adam Pinkhurst as scribe and his relation with Chaucer, textual and paratextual concerns, questions of patronage, dating, the order of the tales, the contexts of manuscript production, and the early transmission of CT.

Alternative Title: Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, Their Producers and Their Readers.