The Hatton MS of the West Saxon Gospels: The Preservation and Transmission of Old English

On scribal practice at the end of the late Old English period see also Gero Bauer, “Medieval English Scribal Practice: Some Questions and Some Assumptions,” in Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries, vol. 1, ed. Dieter Kastovsky and Aleksander Szwedek, Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 32 (Berlin, 1986), pp. 199-210.