The Significance of Marginal Glosses in the Earliest Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Caie, Graham D.
The Significance of Marginal Glosses in the Earliest Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 75-88.
- Description
- Puzzling marginal glosses in Ellesmere, Hengwrt, and Cambridge Dd.4.24 may be intended to guide interpretation, as was customary even in vernacular texts. Accepted as integral to the text for a century, glosses serve various purposes in MLT, glossed chiefly from Innocent III, "De miseria humane conditionis," and from works on astrology.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.