Abstract
Eric Weiskott has proposed that instances of mislineation in the manuscripts of Piers Plowman constitute 'pervasive evidence' that scribes were using prose exemplars. This is wrong. Most of these instances are clearly the products of other problems, and there is abundant evidence, in the form of lines omitted via eyeskip, that all the manuscripts in question were produced from exemplars laid out in verse.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 280-287 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Notes and Queries |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 6 Jul 2024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Sept 2024 |
Keywords
- Piers Plowman
- editing
- scribes
- versification
- alliterative poetry