The Text of 'The Legend of Good Women' in CUL MS Gg.4.27

Author / Editor
Kane, George.

Title
The Text of 'The Legend of Good Women' in CUL MS Gg.4.27

Published
Douglas Gray and E. G. Stanley, eds. Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 39-58.

Description
The text of LGW in the G manuscript is different from that of other manuscripts; it is much corrupted, containing 200 unoriginal variant readings. The pattern of scribal variations makes it unlikely that this version is the result of authorial revision.

Alternative Title
Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Legend of Good Women.