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Identification of the Scribes Responsible for Copying Major Works of Middle English Literature

负责抄写中古英语文学主要作品的抄写员的身份识别

基本信息

批准号：
AH/E509193/1
负责人：
Linne Mooney
金额：
$ 57.77万
依托单位：
University of York
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2007 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE509193%2F1
关键词：
Identification Scribes Responsible Copying Major

项目摘要

By combining linguistic profiles (the dialect spellings of scribes) with palaeographic evidence (likeness of handwriting), we hope to identify the scribes who were responsible for copying the works of the major Middle English poets. We shall do this by examining all of the medieval manuscripts that preserve copies of works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, John Trevisa, John Gower and William Langland, together with contemporary manuscripts (e.g., of works of lesser-known writers) and documents in order to find a signed piece of writing (to identify the scribe by name) or a corpus of manuscripts written by an anonymous scribe (to find where he was working, perhaps for whom). We shall create a website with searchable characteristics of the handwriting and linguistic features of each scribe so that other scholars can use our data to make further findings, and we shall write two books and six articles about our discoveries and what they mean for interpretation of early English literature and the dissemination of ideas in this pre-print era. The project proposed here will for the first time bring together a number of scholars to collaborate on identification of scribes, contributing knowledge from the two fields of palaeography and linguistics which together can offer the most objective evidence for identification. Since thus far no one has systematically studied who copied what, where, or for whom, our findings will greatly increase knowledge of the production, publication, and dissemination of the earliest major corpus of English literature, written by Chaucer and his contemporaries.

通过将语言学特征（抄写员的方言拼写）与古文字学证据（笔迹相似）相结合，我们希望确定负责抄写中世纪英语主要诗人作品的抄写员。我们将通过检查所有保存杰弗里·乔叟、托马斯·霍克利夫、约翰·特雷维萨、约翰·高尔和威廉·朗兰德作品副本的中世纪手稿以及当代手稿（例如，这些文件的目的是为了找到一份有签名的作品（通过名字来识别抄写员）或一个匿名抄写员写的手稿集（找到他在哪里工作，也许是为谁工作）。我们将创建一个网站，提供每个抄写员的笔迹和语言特征的可搜索特征，以便其他学者可以使用我们的数据进行进一步的发现，我们将写两本书和六篇文章，介绍我们的发现以及它们对早期英语文学的解释和在这个印刷前时代的思想传播的意义。这里提出的项目将首次汇集一些学者合作鉴定抄写员，贡献来自古文字学和语言学两个领域的知识，共同为鉴定提供最客观的证据。由于到目前为止还没有人系统地研究谁复制了什么，在哪里，或为谁，我们的发现将大大增加知识的生产，出版，和传播的最早的主要语料库的英语文学，写的乔叟和他的同时代人。