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APPENDIX 2
Examples of Scribal Habits

The sections below provide a comprehensive list of examples within the sam-
ple corpus for each scribal habit considered in this article. These citations are
organized both according to the work in which they appear and their distribu-
tion across the manuscript witnesses: unique examples appear only in Thornton's
manuscript; shared examples appear in both Thornton and at least one other
witness; counter-examples appear only in manuscripts other than Thornton's.

  • I. Dialogue attributions
  • Unique examples
  • Awntyrs: l. 621
  • Octovian: ll. 55, 62, 1422, 1461
  • Parlement:—
  • Richard: ll. 986, 995, 998, 7180
  • Siege: ll. 82, 97, 101, 1231
  • Degrevant:—
  • Shared examples
  • Awntyrs: l. 664
  • Richard:—
  • Siege: l. 15
  • Counter-examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 96, 627, 640, 646
  • Octovian: l. 1371
  • Parlement:—
  • Richard:—
  • Siege: ll. 1234, 1236, 1304, 1305
  • Degrevant:—
  • Total (and percentage of all examples)
       
Unique examples:  13  (54%) 
Shared examples:  (8%) 
Counter-examples:  (38%) 
All examples:  24  (100%) 
  • II. Paratactic expressions (conjunctions and linking adverbs)
  • Unique examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 14, 22, 32, 42, 52, 55, 57, 62, 80, 82, 608, 621, 663, 668, 677, 696, 698,
    699, 701, 705, 709.
  • Octovian: ll. 7, 10, 17, 20, 27, 36, 37, 43, 46, 49, 50, 57, 61, 67, 73, 79, 83, 85, 98, 1378,
    1385, 1386, 1400, 1405, 1407, 1410, 1416, 1419, 1435, 1443, 1452, 1455, 1463, 1464
  • Parlement: ll. 232, 236, 238, 248, 249, 251, 268, 276, 286, 297, 299, 301, 321, 568,
    570, 571, 578, 588, 603, 607, 617, 649

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  • Richard: ll. 4, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 20, 27, 29, 33, 39, 45, 49, 56, 69, 60, 67, 73, 75, 77,
    94, 95, 97, 983, 985, 986, 991, 993, 994, 997, 998, 999, 1001, 7110, 7111, 7115, 7117,
    7132, 7155, 7156, 7157, 7167, 7191, 7195, 7203, 7209
  • Siege: ll. 8, 11, 17, 33, 59, 74, 77, 81, 88, 93, 95, 102, 1231, 1232, 1233, 1251, 1318
  • Degrevant: ll. 6, 11, 12, 26, 72, 79, 85, 99, 1841, 1849, 1864, 1867, 1873, 1874, 1879, 1901,
    1905
  • Shared examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 3, 6, 9, 14, 19, 27, 53, 54, 61, 63, 66, 613, 618, 627, 638, 641, 653, 686, 696,
    699, 707
  • Richard: ll. 57, 987, 7135, 7141, 7143, 7145, 7146, 7149, 7151, 7175, 7187
  • Siege: ll. 5, 13, 22, 23, 47, 51, 61, 62, 63, 67, 71, 78, 90, 92, 104, 1228, 1236, 1245, 1258,
    1261, 1264, 1267, 1275, 1276, 1283, 1284, 1288, 1295, 1299, 1322, 1324
  • Counter-examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 3, 26, 27, 29, 33, 40, 45, 53, 81, 86, 606, 612, 614, 615, 619, 620, 624, 631,
    640, 645, 646, 662, 691, 693, 695, 703
  • Octovian: ll. 41, 45, 66, 1374, 1421, 1445
  • Parlement: ll. 237, 253, 256, 293, 588, 619, 620, 624, 644, 650, 658
  • Richard: ll. 25, 55, 7114, 7163, 7172
  • Siege: ll. 2, 14, 18, 19, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 48, 56, 65, 66, 68, 69, 89, 1225, 1229, 1230, 1241,
    1242, 1248, 1249, 1251, 1253, 1255, 1259, 1263, 1264, 1286, 1293, 1296, 1297, 1298,
    1301, 1304, 1317, 1321
  • Degrevant: ll. 9, 86, 1823, 1839, 1842, 1853, 1859, 1885, 1907, 1908, 1909
  • Total (and percentage of all examples)
       
Unique examples:  158  (49%) 
Shared examples:  63  (20%) 
Counter-examples:  97  (31%) 
All examples:  318  (100%) 
  • III. Doubled negative constructions
  • Unique examples
  • Awntyrs:—
  • Octovian: ll. 19, 1380
  • Parlement: ll. 288, 583, 631
  • Richard: ll. 22, 7118, 7166
  • Siege:—
  • Degrevant: ll. 62, 78, 1873
  • Shared examples
  • Awntyrs:—
  • Richard:—
  • Siege:—
  • Counter-examples
  • Awntyrs: l. 59
  • Octovian: l. 1404
  • Parlement:—
  • Richard: l. 7139
  • Siege: ll. 1246, 1250, 1289
  • Degrevant:—
  • Total (and percentage of all examples)
       
Unique examples:  11  (65%) 
Shared examples:  (0%) 
Counter-examples:  (35%) 
All examples:  17  (100%) 
  • IV. Adverbial intensifiers
  • Unique examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 21, 33, 55, 85, 88, 607, 614, 619, 633, 654

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  • Octovian: ll. 7, 8, 12, 74, 79, 86, 87, 93, 1365, 1421, 1429, 1430, 1439, 1463
  • Parlement: ll. 227, 281, 310, 321, 565, 568, 573, 595
  • Richard: ll. 7, 55, 59, 70, 74, 81, 88, 92, 97, 989, 990, 997, 999, 7112, 7134, 7152
  • Siege: ll. 54, 56, 57, 68, 78, 1254, 1268, 1269, 1276
  • Degrevant: ll. 1831, 1859, 1899, 1902
  • Shared examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 67, 70, 87, 620
  • Richard: ll. 5, 8
  • Siege: ll. 37, 47 (x2), 69, 1226, 1257, 1269, 1275
  • Counter-examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 8, 26, 27, 61, 69, 82, 86, 652, 658, 674, 682, 691, 705, 708
  • Octovian: ll. 23, 97, 1433
  • Parlement: ll. 249, 263
  • Richard: ll. 44, 62, 7137
  • Siege: ll. 29, 91, 1258
  • Degrevant: ll. 81, 99
  • Total (and percentage of all examples)
       
Unique examples:  61  (60%) 
Shared examples:  14  (14%) 
Counter-examples:  27  (26%) 
All examples:  102  (100%) 
  • V. Syntactic smoothing
  • Unique examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 1, 45, 49, 57, 693
  • Octovian: ll. 10, 15, 20, 22, 44, 65, 67, 74, 94, 1369, 1374, 1378, 1384, 1387, 1421
  • Parlement: ll. 234, 287, 298, 302, 636, 640, 653
  • Richard: ll. 8, 13, 18, 30, 31, 52, 66, 79, 84, 86, 983, 987, 996, 7113, 7114, 7115, 7116, 7118,
    7177
  • Siege: ll. 4, 19, 48, 56, 1297, 1315
  • Degrevant: ll. 31, 38, 85, 93, 98, 1822, 1823, 1826, 1838, 1842, 1853, 1857, 1865, 1878,
    1886, 1905, 1913
  • Shared examples
  • Awntyrs: ll. 2, 31, 34, 645
  • Richard: ll. 32, 984, 986, 992, 7136, 7144
  • Siege: ll. 3, 17 (x2), 19, 21, 32, 39, 41, 47, 55, 82, 1229, 1241, 1243, 1287, 1317
  • Counter-examples
  • Awntyrs: l. 33
  • Octovian: ll. 11, 23, 80, 1367, 1380
  • Parlement: ll. 231, 235, 246, 281, 562, 570
  • Richard: ll. 21, 995, 7119, 7132, 7173, 7180
  • Siege: ll. 18 (x3), 21, 29, 64, 80, 101, 1260, 1264, 1274, 1300, 1321, 1325
  • Degrevant: ll. 57, 77, 83, 1850, 1873, 1903
  • Total (and percentage of all examples)
       
Unique examples:  69  (51%) 
Shared examples:  26  (20%) 
Counter-examples:  38  (29%) 
All examples:  133  (100%) 

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