The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Ruggiers, Paul G., ed. with introductions by Donald C. Baker, A. I. Doyle, and M. B. Parkes.
The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript
- Published
- Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
- Physical Description
- liii, 1024 pp.
- Series
- Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 1
- Description
- Designed as the basic text of CT for the "Variorum Chaucer," a facsimile of the Hengwrt, which may have been produced in Chaucer's lifetime, one of the earliest and most reliable of the manuscripts of the CT.
- Transcriptions of the Hengwrt text, Ellesmere variants included, face each page of the Hengwrt facsimile. Introductions provide historical, biographical, literary, and textual information.
- Contributor
- Baker, Donald C., intro.
- Doyle, A. I., intro.
- Parkes, Malcolm B., intro.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.