Flibbert, Nicole2023-05-222017-08-292017-08-012017-08-29https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/38722This article investigates an erasure technique present in the seventeenth century English manuscript play, The Royal Merchant. It maps out a brief history of the modern scholarly awareness of this European scribal practice, then compares examples of knife erasure in The Royal Merchant with examples in the survey I completed of over 40 seventeenth century English manuscript plays from the Folger and British Libraries.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/<p>UPenn Ms. Codex 926</p>Archival ScienceDigital HumanitiesEnglish Language and LiteratureHistoryOther