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The fifteenth-century English Heege Manuscript is unusual among collections of its kind and time given its focus on scary stories over more acclaimed works by celebrated medieval authors like Hoccleve. But according to professor James Wade, even more unusually, the three texts in the manuscript's first booklet were likely copied by Richard Heege from a traveling minstrel's repertoire book. The evidence includes performative elements such as the narrator directly appealing to the audience, joking about peasants and royalty, and making jokes that could be modified to refer to the town of Holbrooke when in nearby Radford to avoid giving offense.
As presented in the text, Wade would most likely agree with which statement about the first booklet of the Heege Manuscript?
The texts it includes were based on stories about the area around Holbrooke and Radford, but these names were later removed.
A
It was copied from a text that originated from a traveling minstrel who worked in the area around Holbrooke and Radford.
B
It was likely a copy Heege intended to give to a traveling minstrel working in the area around Holbrooke and Radford.
C
It was written down by Heege from memory based on a performance by a traveling minstrel who worked in the area around Radford and Brackonwet.
D