Identifying scribal hands: principles and problems
The aim of this paper is to review and reconsider the methodology adopted for identifying scribal hands and to make some suggestions for future research. It will begin by responding in detail to the most recent and far-reaching attacks on Linne Mooney’s identification of Chaucer’s scribe, those by L...
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| description | The aim of this paper is to review and reconsider the methodology adopted for identifying scribal hands and to make some suggestions for future research. It will begin by responding in detail to the most recent and far-reaching attacks on Linne Mooney’s identification of Chaucer’s scribe, those by Lawrence Warner in his book Chaucer’s Scribes and Jane Roberts in an article in Medium Ævum. It then proceeds to consider other approaches and attitudes to the process of scribal identification and the nature of the paleographical method, tackling such challenges as a scribe’s use of different scripts, the way scribal hands change over time, and the lack of an agreed taxonomy of graphetic variation. The final section of the paper will explore the methodological insights that can be drawn from these different approaches and suggest how recent developments and new digital tools can help formulate a method that will build greater consensus. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e50c2903-60e5-4f26-84f1-1266a57c8a062024-09-16T11:52:59ZIdentifying scribal hands: principles and problemsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e50c2903-60e5-4f26-84f1-1266a57c8a06EnglishSymplectic ElementsUniversity of Chicago Press2024Horobin, SThe aim of this paper is to review and reconsider the methodology adopted for identifying scribal hands and to make some suggestions for future research. It will begin by responding in detail to the most recent and far-reaching attacks on Linne Mooney’s identification of Chaucer’s scribe, those by Lawrence Warner in his book Chaucer’s Scribes and Jane Roberts in an article in Medium Ævum. It then proceeds to consider other approaches and attitudes to the process of scribal identification and the nature of the paleographical method, tackling such challenges as a scribe’s use of different scripts, the way scribal hands change over time, and the lack of an agreed taxonomy of graphetic variation. The final section of the paper will explore the methodological insights that can be drawn from these different approaches and suggest how recent developments and new digital tools can help formulate a method that will build greater consensus. |
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