Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16

Author / Editor
Norton-Smith, John, intro.

Title
Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16

Published
London: Scolar Press, 1979.

Physical Description
688 pp; 2 plates.

Series
Variorum Chaucer Facsimile Series.

Description
The fifteenth-century MS Fairfax 16, considered the finest of the Oxford Group of Chaucer manuscripts, contains BD, HF, Anel, Mars, and PF. Regarding the frontispiece, a mythological illumination for Mars, Norton-Smith advances a new theory of artistic composition.
A facsimile.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.