of the Canterbury Tales and either both men or the bookseller they worked for seem to have had good links to the London literary world, being able to obtain high-quality draft copies of texts. Another of the scribes working on the Trinity Gower was Thomas Hoccleve, himself a poet and an admirer (and possibly friend) of Chaucer. Some scholars, such as Estelle Stubbs, have argued that Scribe D and his colleagues may, rather than trying to assemble the Canterbury Tales after Chaucer's death in 1400, have been steadily revising and recopying manuscripts in several stages with possible authorial supervision or input. In recent years, Scribe D has been tentatively identified by Mooney and Stubbs as John Marchaunt, active as Town Clerk of London between 1380 and 1417; in 2018, however, Lawrence Warner argued that the Marchaunt identification had no evidentiary support: there are no substantial documents known to be in Marchaunt's hand with which to compare these records, which seem to have been identified as Scribe D's on the assumption that he was Marchaunt rather than the other way around. Mooney and Stubbs also cite the appearance of the name 'Jhon Marcant' in the margin of a Canterbury Tales manuscript by Scribe D as evidence that a later reader knew who the scribe was, but both this and a second marginal entry ('Jhon Marka') in the manuscript appear next to passages concerning jealousy and thus provide no evidence regarding the scribe's identity. Manuscripts attributed to Scribe D London University Library v. 88 (the so-called "Ilchester manuscript" of Piers Plowman, regarded as possibly Scribe D's earliest work). Cambridge, Trinity R.3.2 (quires 9, 15–19) (Confessio Amantis) British Library, Egerton 1991 (Confessio Amantis) Columbia University, Plimpton 265 (Confessio Amantis) Oxford, Bodley 294 (Confessio Amantis) Oxford, Bodley 902 (Confessio Amantis) Oxford, Christ Church 148 (Confessio Amantis) Princeton, Taylor 5 (Confessio Amantis) British Library, Add. 27944 (John Trevisa's translation of De proprietatibus rerum) British Library, Harley MS. 7334 (Canterbury Tales) Oxford, Corpus Christi 198 (Canterbury Tales) References Medieval European scribes Medieval literature 15th-century English people 15th-century English writers 16th-century English writers The Canterbury Tales