Moss, Rachel E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 293–95.
Personal response to two essays concerning medieval female consent in light of a rape in London in 2021; both essays are included in this volume of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer."
Mosser, Daniel (W.)
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 75-84.
Proposes a complete descriptive catalog of the manuscripts of CT to be published in electronic form as part of the 'Canterbury Tales' Project, illustrating features of each manuscript through electronic facsimiles.
Adds the Cardigan MS (University of Texas) and British Library Egerton MS 2864 to Matheson's list of manuscripts that include "peculiar versions" of Brut.
Demonstrates, "on the basis of handwriting and dialect correspondences (and aided in part by the evidence of colophons), that the scribe who wrote the copy of the 'Canterbury Tales' in Rylands English MS 113 also wrote the first 53 folios of Bodleian…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Library Chronicle, n.s., 41 (1987): 82-111.
Examines the significance of the Cardigan Chaucer MS as a witness to the development of Chaucer's text after his death. Following the example of his predecessors, the Cardigan editor enhanced the appearance of the layout and text to make it seem…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3041A-3042A.
Study of the Cardigan MS (CT and two poems by Lydgate) by the method of Gruijs reveals that Manly and Rickert were wrong in assuming that the codex was produced under close supervision in a shop. Instead, "Scribe A" standardized its language. …
Mosser, Daniel W.
Studies in Bibliography 39 (1986): 112-25.
The description of the manuscript in Manly-Rickert is not wholly dependable; there were two scribes, not three; it was produced by independent craftsmen, not in a shop. The originally intended order of CT is uncertain.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 79 (1985): 235-40.
Deals with Manly and Rickert's erroneous procedures and conclusions regarding classification of manuscripts, scribal procedures, the Ellesmere MS, the Cardigan MS, HM 144, and the order of the tales.
Demonstrates the "openness" and "dynamic character" of the CT text by detailing how early scribes and editors dealt with various lacuna left by Chaucer.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II (London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communications, 1997): pp. 41-53.
Examines characteristic features of the two similar scribal hands of CT manuscript En1, correcting errors and emphases in Manly and Rickert's analysis (1940). The scribes appear initially to have divided their labors before Scribe 2 completed and…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 161-77.
Surveys instances in which portions of manuscripts of CT were copied from Caxton's first edition of the poem and identifies instances where watermarks show that the paper stock in CT manuscripts is the same as that in Caxton. Such evidence has…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Studies in Bibliography 52: 97-114, 1999.
Proposes quire structures for four paper manuscripts, focusing on watermarks and commenting on implications of the proposed structures. Assesses British Library MS Arundel 140 (Ar); British Library MS Harley 2382 (Hl3); Magdalene College, Cambridge…
Mosser, Daniel W.
John Slavin, Linda Sutherland, John O'Neill, Margaret Haupt, and Janet Cowen, eds. Looking at Paper: Evidence & Interpretation. Symposium Proceedings, Toronto 1999 (Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute, 2001), pp. 122-27.
Mossser describes a watermark archive and a plan to mount the collection's data on the WWW, exemplifying the utility of the archive by identifying watermarks (and dates) of the paper stock in three manuscripts of CT: Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 [Dd],…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver, with contributions by John P. Chalmers, Daniel W. Mosser, and Michael Thompson. Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered (Chicago, Ill.: Caxton Club, 2005), pp. 24-51.
A portion of a copy of Caxton's first edition of CT was "harvested" to make a run of "leaf books" for the Caxton Club. Mosser describes the project, the known portions of the dismembered book, the known copies of Caxton's first edition, collectors'…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Journal of the Early Book Society 8 (2005): 215-28.
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.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 360-92.
Scribal glosses in a copy of this third incunabular edition of CT (STC 5084) provide further evidence of manuscript W, a hypothesized manuscript affiliated with Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.3.15, and Wynkyn de Worde's edition of CT. They also…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Margaret Connolly and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England (York: York Medieval Press, 2008), pp. 11-40.
Considers whether the Hengwrt manuscript (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 392D) of CT was produced during Chaucer's lifetime. Mosser finds conflicting evidence of authorial involvement among corrections to the text, particularly…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Journal of the Early Book Society 13 (2010): 63-93.
Mosser assesses the watermarks and paper stock of the ten manuscripts attributed to the "Beryn Scribe," to establish their dates and relative chronology.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Birmingham, [Eng.]: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2010.
2d edition, revised, updated, and corrected, with David Hill Radcliffe, 2014, available at <http://www.mossercatalogue.net>; accessed 17 February 2024.
Comprehensive description of the eighty-four manuscript witnesses to CT and four pre-1500 editions, each including contents, tale order, progress of copying, materials, page size, collation, format, hands, illumination, binding, date, language,…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Margaret Connolly, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall, eds. Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney (York: York Medieval Press), pp. 285-311.
Anatomizes the contents of CT manuscripts, i.e., "some 240 Middle English verse texts, 65 Middle English prose texts, 16 Latin prose texts, 10 Latin verse texts, and a single French verse text" that accompany some or all of the CT in one or more…
Mosser, Daniel W. and Linne R. Mooney.
ChauR 49.01 (2014): 39-76.
Identifies the Beryn Scribe as the scribe of Princeton University, MS 100, as well as other CT fragments. Maintains that the Beryn Scribe worked with other scribes in a scriptorium based in London to disseminate multiple copies of vernacular…
Mosser, Daniel W., and Linne R. Mooney.
Chaucer Review 51.2 (2016): 131-50.
Analyzes the paleography and spelling of the fifteen manuscripts belonging to the hooked-g group, including three CT manuscripts, identifying two separate scribes and several collaborators. Includes four tables, six b&w illustrations, and an appendix…
Mote, Sarah.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 60–74.
Provides brief descriptions of the fourteenth-century history and the life of Chaucer, and introduces late fourteenth-century visual arts, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glasses, and altarpieces with notable examples. Characterizes the…
