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Part of the book: The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval

Corin F. V. Corley

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 24

Modern Humanities Research Association

MedievalFrenchPoetryopen

Abstract.  The fifth episode of C2, the one in which the SRed. comes to an end, is, from the point of view of the manuscript tradition, the most interesting in the text. It is also of particular interest because of the implications of that tradition for the remainder of the text. The sudden confusion in the manuscript relations, which, as we have seen, is one reason for locating the C1/C2 distinction at A 10268, as regards authorship, is such that we can justifiably discern three separate redactions of this one episode.

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