the scribe of harley ms 7334, conventionally referred to as "scribe d", is known to have been responsible for several other important manuscripts of the period, including eight copies of the "confessio amantis" of john gower and one of "piers plowman". he is also known to be responsible for one other manuscript of the "tales", corpus christi college ms. 198, and his work appears in a gower manuscript alongside that of adam pinkhurst, now identified as the scribe of the ellesmere ms. scribe d was active in london between the 1390s and 1420s, though his spellings indicate that he was originally from the southwest midlands. academic jeremy smith has characterised scribe d as particularly interesting, as his texts display a history in which he moved to london from north worcestershire, tried hard to eliminate his worcestershire dialect from his copying, and gradually assimilated peculiar spellings particular to gower, eventually transplanting them into his work on chaucer's texts.