The Scribe of Bodleian Library, MS Digby 102 and the Circulation of the C Text of <i>Piers Plowman</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay identifies the scribe of an important manuscript of the C version of Piers Plowman as a clerk working for the London Brewers’ Guild during the early fifteenth century. Following a presentation of the palaeographical evidence upon which this identification rests, the essay considers its implications for our understanding of the production and reception of this copy of Piers Plowman, its relationship with other texts within the manuscript, and the light it sheds upon the transmission and circulation of this recension of Langland’s poem among London scribes and readers during the first quarter of the fifteenth century.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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