(Well, "breaking" in the sense of scholarship, which means all this was publicized in a conference a few years ago, published last year, and I just now got caught up with the latest.)
The scribe of the Ellesmere Chaucer and the Hengwrt Manuscript has been identified as Adam Pinkhurst, a member of the Scrivener's Company in London as of 1392 (although he had been working as a scribe before that). If he is indeed the "Adam Scriveyn" of Chaucer's earlier poem, it means that he worked with Chaucer from the 1380s up until Chaucer's death in 1400, and perhaps knew more about Chaucer's writings than anyone else.
Linne Mooney is the handwriting expert who gets credit for the discovery. An interview with her tells how she found Adam out.
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