The Production of Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.3.2 Revisited.
- Author/Editor
- Mooney, Linne
- Title
- The Production of Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.3.2 Revisited.
- Published
- Mooney, Linne. "The Production of Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.3.2 Revisited." Journal of the Early Book Society 24 (2021): 1-25.
- Review
- Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.3.2 is one of the manuscripts of the "Confessio Amantis" on which Ian Doyle and Malcolm Parkes based their conclusions in their foundational study, "The Production of Copies of the 'Canterbury Tales' and the 'Confessio Amantis' in the Early Fifteenth Century." Mooney's concern is to show that it and Princeton, University Library, Taylor Collection, MS 5 (olim Philipps 8192) are column-for-column copies, being produced more or less simultaneously by five scribes, the lead scribe being "D" (so designated by Doyle and Parkes), whom Estelle Stubbs has identified as John Marchaunt, Clerk of the City of London working at the Guildhall (2-3)—and "most likely . . . Marchaunt was the supervisor of the work" (16). Taylor MS 5, Mooney posits, the more deluxe of the two MS, was the exemplar for Trinity ("the second-best manuscript"), and "it looks as though Marchaunt was originally doling out . . . quires" (15) from Taylor to the other scribes (primarily A and C) even as Taylor was being copied from another exemplar by Marchaunt. These three scribes--D, A, and C--had a "common workplace," which Mooney, extrapolating from Stubbs' identification of D as Marchaunt, argues "seems likely to have been the London Guildhall" (17). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2021
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Confessio Amants