MS Harley 7334 and the Construction of 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Jones, Alex I.

Title
MS Harley 7334 and the Construction of 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
English Language Notes 23 (1985): 9-15.

Description
The Harley scribe preserved the structure of Chaucer's original, revealing Chaucer's intent to structure CT according to a numerical series that the thirteenth-century Lombard mathematician Fibonacci used to describe the geometrical increase of a rabbit population.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.