Edwards, A. S. G.
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 81-86.
Edwards comments on several features of Takamiya MS 32, which "provides the only significant narrative conjunction of the works of Chaucer and Gower": quire numbering and arrangement of materials indicate that the Gower material was "selected by the…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Christa Jansohn and Bodo Plachta, eds. Varianten - Variants - Variantes. (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005), pp. 79-90.
Edwards comments on the conceptualizations and uses of variants in textual studies of CT and "Piers Plowman," particularly those by Manly and Rickert and by Kane and Donaldson, arguing that some manuscripts are better regarded as separate versions of…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 121-28.
Transcribes a version of CkT from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 45, previously unnoticed or ignored. Accompanied by the apocryphal Tale of Gamelyn, the text was copied by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), probably from a manuscript now lost.
Edwards clarifies the indeterminacies of the "editorial process" by questioning several textual issues pertaining to the manuscripts of HF: uncertain authority of individual manuscript and manuscript groupings, and the implications of this…
Compares the contents of Cambridge University Library MS Additional 4122 with similar contemporary compilations, encouraging further study of such devotional collections. The presence of Chaucer's SNT in such anthologies may indicate his shaping…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 171-89.
Summarizes the progress of Skeat's career as an editor of Chaucer, articulating his debts to Richard Morris, F. J. Furnivall, and Henry Bradshaw, and acclaiming his accomplishments as the beginning of the "Modern Age" of Chaucer scholarship.…
Critiques the Manly-Rickert text of CT for inconsistency in treatment of orthographic accidentals and failure to maintain a consistent, identifiable copy-text. Recommends, nevertheless, judicious use of the Manly-Rickert table of variants.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Essays and Studies 63 (2010): 59-73.
Studies the reception of the Ellesmere manuscript of CT and its use by scholars, concluding that the manuscript is remarkable not only for the poem it records but also for the part it plays in development of modern ideas about the author.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Nottingham Medieval Studies 54 (2010): 185-94.
Examines the influence of Lydgate in Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, commenting on the manuscript circulation of his poems. Scottish writers' stylistic indebtedness to Lydgate is complicated by the influence of Chaucer's writings…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 520-37.
Edwards cites the "pivotal" nature of the 1532 publication of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Chaucer's "Werkes" and explores "Chaucerian modes and language" in fifteenth-century poetry by Hoccleve, Lydgate, Dunbar, and Henryson--a "subject that…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan, eds. Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann (Cambridge: Brewer, 2011), pp. 76-90.
Examines twenty-five CT mss in which "Gamelyn" appears and makes suggestions about the tale's relationship to the CT, arguing against the notion that early scribes included it on "wholly whimsical grounds." Its inclusion early in the textual…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Chaucer Review 46 (2011): 237-47.
A case study of the difficulty of identifying particular manuscripts in inventories, wills, catalogues, book lists, etc., surveying the Middle English manuscripts once owned by seventeenth-century collector Sir James Ware, focusing on the items that…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Book Collector 21 (1972) 380-85.
Recounts the details of various transactions involving the theft, acquisition, and sales of the Cardigan manuscript (now University of Texas Humanities Research Center MS 143), focusing on information derived from the papers of Henry Noble…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 201-14.
Reviews Derek Brewer's editorial work on Malory and Chaucer. Mentions Brewer's unpublished projects, including the "Nelson Chaucer," that affected the "textual authority" of Middle English scholarship.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 245-54.
Suggests that John Shirley's motives for his scribal activities were "commercial," rather than antiquarian or courtly, motivated by a "shared interest" with John Lydgate.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Notes and Queries 262 (2017): 220-21.
Encourages editors to adopt the manuscript variant "his" (rather than "hir") at the end of the Cook's fragment (CkT 1.4422), which would indicate that the wife prostituted herself "not to make her own living, but in order to provide money for her…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Chaucer Review 55 (2020): 113-16.
Presents evidence from a "description of a manuscript of Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' that appeared in a sale catalogue in 1843." This description, because it doesn't correspond to any known, available copies, suggests another manuscript of…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Notes and Queries 266, no. 1 (2021): 25.
Contends that Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 may be the manuscript referred to as "7574 Boethius's Consolat.of Philosophy, translated by Chaucer, 'imperfect,' 2s 6d" in the 1770 sale catalogue of London bookseller Thomas Payne, since it is…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Times Literary Supplement July 2, 2021, pp. 7-8.
Attributes reduction of Chaucer's presence in UK university curricula to "asserted economic exigency and the quest for relevance," and aligns it with "unreflective dogma" of forms of "political correctness," including "radical feminism." Responses…
Edwards, A. S. G., and Derek Pearsall.
Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall, eds. Book Publishing and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475. Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 257-78.
Describes the "new phase" in English publishing and book production that took place in the "early years" of the fifteenth century--particularly the large increase in the number of books of vernacular poetry, including Chaucer's poetry. Summarizes…
