A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts: Volume I, Works Before the "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Seymour, M. C.
A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts: Volume I, Works Before the "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- Hants;
- Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- x, 171 pp.
- Description
- Describes eighty-eight manuscripts and fragments that include "all known copies of Chaucer's work," except CT and "a few stray lyrics and short poems." Excludes Equat and apocrypha, although these, along with portraits of Chaucer, are discussed in appendices.
- These descriptions are arranged in the supposed chronological order of the works, and they are cross-referenced to avoid duplication. Descriptions include reports of physical features, collation, contents, scribal hands, marginalia, decoration, and history.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.