Scribal Consistency across Four Middle English Texts in NLW, Brogyntyn ii.1

The number of hands involved in copying NLW, Brogyntyn ii.1 has been a subject of debate. Progress is currently being made from the rather general observations by Kurvinen (1953), Huws (1996), and Salter (2012) to the more recent and better-founded accounts by Carrillo-Linares (2023), on the scribes of Sir Gawayn and the Carl of Carlisle, and Connolly (forthcoming), on the first quire. The present paper aims to contribute to a hitherto unresolved part of the discussion by comparing decorative, palaeographical, and linguistic evidence across the Treatise on Grafting, the Treatise on Limning, Dialogue with a Bird, and The Tale of Ten Wives. I refute Kurvinen's and Salter's suggestions of multiple scribes through sound support of Huws's claim that a single scribe was in charge of both the prose and verse sections in this part of the codex.