Manuscript Portraits of Chaucer and Hoccleve
- Author / Editor
- Seymour, Michael.
Manuscript Portraits of Chaucer and Hoccleve
- Published
- Burlington Magazine 124 (1982): 618-23 (seven illustrations).
- Description
- The eight manuscript portraits of Chaucer and the three of Hoccleve are described. Those of Chaucer in Ellesmere and Harley 4866 are possibly independent copies of a common ancestor, now lost. All other portraits of Chaucer depend on their tradition, except the "Troilus" "pulpit portrait" (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 61), which is an earlier, independent, and perhaps contemporary likeness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.