The Textual Tradition of 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
The Textual Tradition of 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- English Studies 62 (1981): 237-48.
- Description
- Nothing in the textual tradition of the three MSS of BD supports a thesis of differing exemplars. The lines of BD that are found in Thynne's edition but not in the MSS--lines 31-96, 288,480, 886--should be considered spurious until convincingly authenticated.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Book of the Duchess.