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Probable Truth TexTs and TransiTions Editorial Board Martha driver, Pace University, New York derek Pearsall, University of York Julia Boffey, Queen Mary, University of London ardis Butterfield, Yale University Phillipa Hardman, University of Reading dieter Mehl, Universität Bonn alastair Minnis, Yale University oliver Pickering, University of Leeds John scattergood, Trinity College Dublin John Thompson, Queen’s University Belfast Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book. Volume 5 Probable Truth editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century edited by Vincent Gillespie and anne Hudson British Library Cataloguing in Publication data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. © 2013, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. d/2013/0095/203 isBn: 978-2-503-53683-5 e-isBn: 978-2-503-54057-3 Printed on acid-free paper Contents illustrations ix acknowledgements xi abbreviations xiii introduction VinCenT GiLLesPie and anne Hudson 1 The Way We Were The early english Text society 1930 to 1950: Wartime and reconstruction H. L. sPenCer 15 From script to Print to HTML: electronic editions Whatever Happened to electronic editing? BeLLa MiLLeTT 39 editing electronic Texts THorLaC TurViLLe-PeTre 55 vi Contents Practices, Habits, Methodologies The architecture of old english editions KaTHerine o’Brien o’KeeFFe 73 editing old english Prose and the Challenge of revision or, Why it is not so easy to edit old english Prose MaLCoLM Godden 91 editing Texts with extensive Manuscript Traditions raLPH Hanna 111 Composite Texts: some Methodological Considerations WiLLiaM roBins 131 editing insular song across the disciplines: Worldes blis ardis BuTTerFieLd and HeLen deeMinG 151 The optics of Ps-Grosseteste: editing Peter of Limoges’s Tractatus moralis de oculo riCHard neWHauser 167 in Praise of the Variant: Why edit Critically? Variants vs Variance dereK PearsaLL 197 When Variants aren’t: authors as scribes in some english Manuscripts MaTTHeW FisHer 207 some Measures of scribal accuracy in Late Medieval english Manuscripts riCHard BeadLe 223 Contents vii editing and Correcting danieL WaKeLin 241 What is scribal error, and What should editors do (or not do) about it? sTePHen Morrison 261 in Praise of the Variant: Why edit Critically? a Pragmatic Viewpoint susan PoWeLL 275 assessing sole attestation in selected Middle english Textual Traditions rosaMund aLLen 293 editing British Texts in Latin, anglo-norman, Celtic, and scots editing older scots Texts saLLy MaPsTone 311 Towards an edition of the Scottish Troy Book eMiLy WinGFieLd 327 Textual Criticism and Baile Binnbérlach mac Búain MiCHeLLe doran 345 a Medieval Welsh Version of the Troy story: editing Ystorya Dared HeLen FuLTon 355 editing the editor: editorial Policy at the anglo-norman dictionary HeaTHer PaGan and GeerT de WiLde 373 viii Contents scientific Texts a Plea for Middle english Botanical Synonyma daVid Moreno oLaLLa 387 new software Tools for the analysis of Computerized Historical Corpora: GuL Mss Hunter 509 and 513 in the Light of TexSEn Laura esTeBan-seGura and Teresa Marqués-aGuado 405 editing alchemical Texts in Middle english: The Final Frontier? PeTer J. Grund 427 Middle english Case studies Why edit the Middle english Prose Brut? What’s (still) in it for us? JoHn J. THoMPson 445 Parallel Texts and a Peculiar Brut: a Case study Marie sTansFieLd 465 new Challenges to the editing of Chaucer orieTTa da roLd 481 ‘Let Copulation Thrive’: some Varieties of Contamination in the Textual Tradition of Piers Plowman a. V. C. sCHMidT 493 editing Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection: The Case for a rhizomorphic Historical edition MiCHaeL G. sarGenT 509 index of Manuscripts 535 index of names, Places, and Texts 543 illustrations Figures Figure 1, p. 16. ‘r. W. Chambers’, reproduced from the Proceedings of the British Academy, 30 (1944). Figure 2, p. 23. ‘C. T. onions’, reproduced from the Proceedings of the British Academy, 65 (1979). Figure 3, p. 160. The two notated versions of Worldes blis. Figure 4, p. 215. ‘ranulf Higden’s holograph Polychronicon’. san Marino, Hunt- ing ton Library, Ms HM 132, fol. 177r. Middle of the fourteenth century. Figure 5, p. 226. ‘The Two Ways Contrarious’ (at foot). London, British Lib- rary, Ms Harley 2398, fol. 174r. early fifteenth century. Figure 6, p. 227. ‘The Two Ways Contrarious’. Cambridge, Magdalene College, Ms Pepys 2125, fol. 125v. early fifteenth century. Figure 7, p. 408. excel spreadsheet showing lemmatization and tagging. Figure 8, p. 518. descriptions of the affiliation of the manuscripts of Scale i. Figure 9, p. 522. descriptions of the affiliation of the manuscripts of Scale i and ii. x ILLUSTRATIONS Tables Table 1, p. 158. The first two stanzas of Worldes blis as they appear in the three manuscript witnesses, and in Medieval English Songs, ed. by eric J. dobson and Frank L. Harrison. Table 2, p. 343. analysis of structure of Scottish Troy Book. Table 3, p. 396. Botanical synonyma, sicknesses, and body parts in Middle english. Table 4, p. 412. Variant spellings of scrutinized items in H509 and H513. Table 5, p. 417. sample of concordances for which/thē which in H509. Table 6, p. 417. sample of concordances for which/thē which in H513. Table 7, p. 417. sample of concordances for negators in H509. Table 8, p. 419. sample of concordances for negators in H513. Table 9, p. 419. sample of the structures showing adjectives followed by nouns in H509. Table 10, p. 419. sample of the structures showing adjectives preceded by nouns in H509. Table 11, p. 421. sample of the structures showing adjectives followed by nouns in H513. Table 12, p. 421. sample of the structures showing adjectives preceded by nouns in H513. Table 13, p. 421. sample of the structures used with several adjectives in H513. Table 14, p. 488. stratigraphic representation of the distribution of the five colours of ink in Hengwrt.
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