“Piers Plowman Electronic Archive”
The poem was reproduced by scribes & early editors, & the surviving 54 manuscripts are full of errors — some the result of incompetence, others the product of sophisticated re-writing. This electronic edition differs from most printed editions in that it does not suppress editorial disagreement among the manuscripts. It embraces the provisional nature of scholarly editing & proposes a set of solutions to editorial problems without suggesting they will have the final authority. (NEH)
