Kevin Sean Whetter: The Manuscript and Meaning of Malory’s Morte Darthur: Rubrication, Commemoration, Memoralization (Arthurian Studies LXXXIV).

• Nicole Meier

Since the discovery of the Winchester manuscript (BL Add 59678) of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur in 1934, its text and relationship to Caxton’s printed edition of 1485 have been the subject of scholarly debate. Neither witness derives from the other and both are removed from Malory’s original holograph. The book under review addresses the significance of the rubrication of characters’ names and marginal notes in the Winchester manuscript and is the culmination of Whetter’s research on the relationship of manuscript and text of Malory’s Morte Darthur. The author has already published several articles related to this subject in which he presents arguments which he also incorporates into his present book.