A New Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Mosser, Daniel (W.)
A New Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 75-84.
- Description
- Proposes a complete descriptive catalog of the manuscripts of CT to be published in electronic form as part of the 'Canterbury Tales' Project, illustrating features of each manuscript through electronic facsimiles.
- The work will supercede Manly and Rickert's vol. 1 (Chicago, 1940) by taking advantage of recent advances in paleography and codicology, thus providing for each manuscript a codicological description; dating, provenance, and history;textual affiliations; incipits and explicits; an updatable bibliography; and linguistic profiles of the scribes.
- Alternative Title
- The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.