the practice of the time, would have felt it acceptable to expand or edit the author's text as they thought appropriate. In general, modern editors have agreed with the opinion of Stephen Knight, who noted that while Harley MS 7334 "seems so handsome and authoritative [...] it is in fact heavily and even whimsically edited". However, Scribe D was, in his Gower manuscripts, known to have proceeded in a manner similar to "a photocopier [and] often copied simply what was before him", so it remains possible that the idiosyncratic variant readings might have some other source. The manuscript is often conventionally referred to as Ha4, following John Manly and Edith Rickert's notation. A facsimile edition of the manuscript has been published. References External links Harley 7334 on the British Library. Literary illuminated manuscripts The Canterbury Tales Harleian Collection English manuscripts