Manuscript Pepys 2006: A Facsimile, Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, A. S. G., introd.
Manuscript Pepys 2006: A Facsimile, Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Published
- Norman, Okla.:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk : Pilgrim Books;
- Boydell & Brewer, 1986.
- Series
- The Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, no. 06.
- Description
- The introduction treats contents, date, material and structure, ruling, layout and presentation of texts, handwriting, punctuation, correction and annotation, decoration, binding, and the history of the volume bequeathed to Magdalen College by Samuel Pepys.
- The first of the two manuscripts joined in the volume preserves texts of LGW, ABC, HF, Mars, Ven, For, PF, and several non-Chaucerian works. The second manuscript is exclusively Chaucerian, with texts of Mel, ParsP, ParsT, Ret, Mars, Ven, Anel, For, Scog, ABC, Purse, Truth, and (the unique text) MercB.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.