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Wood, Sarah (2017) Two annotated Piers Plowman Manuscripts from London and the Early Reception of B and C. The Chaucer Review, 52 (3). pp. 274-297. doi:10.5325/chaucerrev.52.3.0274 ISSN 0009-2002.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.52.3.0274
Abstract
London, British Library MS Additional 35287 of the B version and San Marino, Huntington Library MS HM 143 of the C version are two of the most important manuscripts for the study of Piers Plowman's early reception. Each witnesses to the development, among the London scribes involved in the transmission of Langland's and Chaucer's works, of some of the earliest commentary on the two long versions of Langland's poem. The manuscripts, however, adopt different attitudes towards the authority of the apparatus they inherited from earlier exemplars in the London booktrade. Viewed alongside the marginal glosses to the Canterbury Tales produced by the same network of scribes, the annotations in metropolitan copies of both B and C can reveal much about early readers' perceptions of the issues of authorship, authority, and audience raised by the work of the two London poets.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Langland, William, 1330?-1400? -- Criticism, Textual -- History, Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism, Textual -- History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Chaucer Review | ||||||
Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0009-2002 | ||||||
Official Date: | 31 July 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 52 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 274-297 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.5325/chaucerrev.52.3.0274 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 January 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 November 2017 | ||||||
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