The Significance of Marginal Glosses in the Earliest Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Caie, Graham D.

Title
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.