Two North-West Midland Manuscripts Revisited.
- Author/Editor
- Ronberg, Gert.
- Title
- Two North-West Midland Manuscripts Revisited.
- Published
- Ronberg, Gert. "Two North-West Midland Manuscripts Revisited." Neophilologus 67 (1983): 463-67.
- Review
- Ronberg follows C. A. Luttrell (1958) in studying the scribal hand(s) of Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter V.2.8 (388), which contains the unique "Gest Historiale of the Destruction of Troy," and Manchester, Chetham Library, MS A.7.38 (6696), a copy of the "Confessio Amantis." He makes two points: 1) in which he disagrees with Luttrell, offering "linguistic evidence" that the two hands in the Hunter MS (a cursive and a bookhand) belong to "different scribes"; and 2)--of interest to Gowerians--in which he agrees with Luttrell that the cursive hand of Hunter and that of the Chetham CA are by the same man: "Thomas Chetham, a landowner who lived at Nuthurst in South Lancashire and who copied the texts mentioned above during the first quarter of the sixteenth century" (463). Ronberg argues from linguistic evidence in both cases (where Luttrell was concerned with paleography), and, discussing common dialectical features of the two manuscripts, he shows that their "spelling features, and their proportional distribution" (467) confirm Luttrell's identification of Chetham and the dates of the manuscripts. N.B.: Like Luttrell, Ronberg cites the Chetham manuscript of the CA as A.6.11 rather than A.7.38, following the error in Macaulay. [MA. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 39.2]
- Date
- 1983
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Language and Word Studies
Confessio Amantis