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Eagleton identifies a fragment of Astr washed from MS 358 in the Royal College of Physicians, London. Reproduces the explicit that names Chaucer as author; six photographs; and two tables.

Describes uncertainties related to the manuscripts of CT and surveys critical efforts to resolve them--uncertainties about the state of Chaucer's papers at the time of his death and the circulation of tales before his death, the order and…

Hilmo encourages the view that wood-cuts enhance text through visual rhetoric; specifically, Caxton's addition of a bow to Chaucer's Clerk in his edition of CT represents the Clerk as a moral satirist.

Thaisen illustrates how a distribution of orthographical variants can be an "internal standard of reference," using as an example the Ad3 manuscript of CT. He comments on the order of tales in the manuscript and on various features of the…

Paleographical evidence and similarities of decoration establish that the Edmund-Fremund scribe, known for his work on manuscripts of John Lydgate, also worked on a CT manuscript which survives in two fragments: John Rylands Manuscript English 63…

Reads continuations of CT in light of new-media theory, treating the apocryphal tales as textual interactions invited by the story-telling frame.

Mosser assesses the watermarks and paper stock of the ten manuscripts attributed to the "Beryn Scribe," to establish their dates and relative chronology.

Son of Chaucer's editor and contemporary of Robert Cotton, Francis Thynne read as an antiquarian, as evidenced by his objections to Speght's 1598 edition and comparison of his annotations of this edition with the annotations of humanist Gabriel…

Compares Chaucer's and Hoccleve's manuscripts in terms of authorial control, contrasting the "muddle of disparate exemplars" of CT with Hoccleve's detailed attention to format. Specifically contrasts Hoccleve's "mid-stanza paraph" in his autograph…

Uses personal copy for close comparison with 1687 edition, and views book history as evidence of increasing inability to decode Middle English and the beginning of antiquarianism and collectable Chaucer.

Catalogues Chaucer resources at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and focuses on Aitken as collector.

Establishes that John Harington owned a copy of William Thynne's 1542 edition of Chaucer's complete works and may have annotated it when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Comments on Harington's annotations and speculates on communal reading…

Analyzes the "marginalia, damages, repairs, signatures, and bindings" of the copy of William Caxton's second edition of CT (Foundation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Switzerland, Inc, B. 70) as signs of the ways it has been used and regarded historically,…

Discusses the Virtues and Vices miniatures that accompany ParsT in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27, as they relate to Chaucer's text, in the "context ofmtheir wider medieval iconographic tradition" and the "imagery of affective meditation."…

Investigates the "material conditions" that underlie the fictional book of "wikked wyves" described in WBP, 669-73, analyzing extant manuscripts that "most closely resemble Jankyn's volume" and have other Chaucerian and Oxonian associations. Explores…

Analyzes the textual record of RvT and identifies nineteen witnesses "committed to accurate transmission" of its northernisms whereas others translate northern dialect features or fail to recognize them (e.g., "sal" for "shall"). Discusses the…

Presents previously overlooked "gleanings" of verse that are missing from the general catalogues: one is at the end of Mel in MS Barlow
20, while another is an analogue to lines from KnT.

Differences between the F and G versions of LGWP include increased concern in the latter with aurality, with the metaphor of harvest as an epistemological figure and an "ars poetica," and with the boundaries between orality and literacy, Latin and…

The scribe of British Library MS Harley 1758 (a copy of CT) also executed London, Society of Antiquaries 134, which includes Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and works by Lydgate, Hoccleve, and John Walton. The two manuscripts were produced in the West…

Argues that the same scribe executed both manuscripts; the Cambridge manuscript is of "Mandeville's Travels."

A combination of linguistic and paleographical evidence suggests a single scribe for Egerton 2864 who differs from the scribes of Additional 5140. Mosser documents his article with illustrations.

Identifies characteristics of a sixth scribe (Scribe F) of MS R.3.19, copyist of the "whole of fol. 42, recto and verso."

Treats Sir Francis Kynaston's edition of the TC text.

Points out Troilus's desire as an important element of TC, and argues that TC engages with the issue of Fortune in relation to human nature. In Japanese, with English abstract.

Examines how dialectal evidence can shed light on the textual affiliation of PF in MS Tanner 346.