A Note on Canacee's Magic Ring

Author / Editor
DiMarco, Vincent.

Title
A Note on Canacee's Magic Ring

Published
Anglia 99 (1981): 399-405.

Description
The legend of Moses' magic, alluded to in SqT 247-51, first occurs in Peter Comestor's "Historia scholastica." Nicholas Trevet and Gower also mention this motif, but probably Chaucer's source for the allusion is Roger Bacon's "Opus maius."

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.