Quo vadis, Adam Pinkhurst? Scripts, Scribes, and the Limits of Paleography: A Response Essay.
- Author/Editor
- Sobecki, Sebastian.
- Title
- Quo vadis, Adam Pinkhurst? Scripts, Scribes, and the Limits of Paleography: A Response Essay.
- Published
- Sobecki, Sebastian. "Quo vadis, Adam Pinkhurst? Scripts, Scribes, and the Limits of Paleography: A Response Essay." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 780-804.
- Review
- Sobecki's essay is "a response" to the others in this cluster of Speculum essays--hence its concerns on arguments. pro and con, with Adam Pinkhurst as Chaucer's "Adam scriveyn" (Sobecki is not convinced), and so are largely extraneous to Gower. He does reprint Linne Mooney's Fig. 2, the portion of Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.2 fol. 9ra (791), and comments interestingly that this manuscript "has clear Westminster connections" and may point to a circle of Westminster scribes, with scribes A, B (if not Pinkhurst), and D perhaps belonging to Anglicana-specialized clerks working in Westminster Hall, that is, Chancery, Exchequer, the central law courts" (804). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.1]
- Date
- 2024
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies