Can We Trust the Hengwrt Manuscript?

Author / Editor
Robinson, Peter.

Title
Can We Trust the Hengwrt Manuscript?

Published
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 194-217.

Description
Surveys evidence-from publications of the Canterbury Tales Project-affirming that the Hengwrt manuscript "has the best text [of the poem], where it has text, but it may not have all the text which Chaucer wrote, nor have it all in the best order, nor spell the text as Chaucer spelt it."

Alternative Title
Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General.