'Good' and 'Bad' Manuscripts: Texts and Critics

Author / Editor
Kane, George.

Title
'Good' and 'Bad' Manuscripts: Texts and Critics

Published
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 137-45.

Description
Discusses problems in various medieval manuscripts and criteria for editorial judgments, applying them to the CUL Gg.4.21 text of LGW and to the Hengwrt and Ellesmere CT. The conditions for "analysis of describable physical data" are favorable for Chaucer and Langland manuscripts.

Alternative Title
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2 (1986)

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.