Chapter 1: The Manuscript Tradition
Corin F. V. Corley
From The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study (1987), pp. 8-30, doi:10.59860/td.c8ce0c5
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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 Abstract. The aim of this necessarily brief examination of the manuscript tradition of the Perceval corpus is to establish where there are major shifts in the manuscript relations, and whether these generally appear to correspond to clearly defined sections of the text. Subsequently the manuscript tradition of C2 is examined in more detail, with a view to establishing which MSS seem to represent the most primitive state of the text. The method used is a comparison of the MSS, not on the basis of common errors, but of common additions, omissions and, to a lesser extent, inversions. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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