Proverbial Chaucer and the Chaucer Canon

Author / Editor
Boffey, Julia.

Title
Proverbial Chaucer and the Chaucer Canon

Published
Huntington Library Quarterly 58 (1996): 37-47

Description
Unique Scottish attribution of "Walton's Prosperity" (a copy of "Index" 2820) to Chaucer in British Library MS Cotton Vitellius E. xi suggests fifteenth-century reception of Chaucer as "fount of proverbial wisdom."

Alternative Title
Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Chaucerian Apocrypha.