Looking for Scribal Play in Oxford, New College MS 314.

Author / Editor
Flannery, Mary C.

Title
Looking for Scribal Play in Oxford, New College MS 314.

Published
New College Notes (Oxford) 12 (2019): 1-4; 3 illus.

Description
Addresses "scribal playfulness," rather than error or accuracy, focusing on instances of copyists' engagement with Chaucer's "bawdy humour," particularly the diction, imagery, and details of a ribald expansion of the pear-tree episode of MerT (and several other interpolations) in Oxford, New College MS 314 and its correlative witnesses.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Merchant and His Tale
Style and Versification