Unnoticed Extracts from Chaucer and Hoccleve: Huntington MS HM 144, Trinity College, Oxford MS D 29 and 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Harris, Kate.

Title
Unnoticed Extracts from Chaucer and Hoccleve: Huntington MS HM 144, Trinity College, Oxford MS D 29 and 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 167-99.

Description
The compiler-editor-scribe of the prose history in Trinity College, Oxford MS D 29 used ParsT and Mel as a source in six passages. The same scribe included Mel and MkT in Huntington MS HM 144. Harris describes the scribal adjustments of Chaucer's texts in these two late-fifteenth-century manuscripts, identifying them as efforts at explanation or clarification. They are based on different copy texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Monk and His Tale.
Tale of Melibee.
Parson and His Tale.