The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM

Author / Editor
Robinson, Peter, ed., with contributions from N. F. Blake, Daniel W. Mosser, Stephen Partridge, and Elizabeth Solopova.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge Unviersity Press, 1996.

Physical Description
CD-ROM with printed instructional booklet and editor's introduction (80 pp.)

Description
Contains original-spelling transcripts of all fifty-four manuscripts and four pre-1500 printed editions of WBP, with digitized images of every page of text contained in these sources (1,200 images in all). The transcripts are linked with two collations, one unregularized and one regularized, so that any reading of any word or line can be compared with the corresponding word or line in all other texts.
The CD-ROM also contains transcripts of all glosses, new descriptions of each witness, spelling databases for all the witnesses, introductions to each transcript, and articles by the contributors.

Contributor
Blake, N. F.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Partridge, Stephen.
Solopova, Elizabeth.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.