The Virgule in the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
The Virgule in the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Published
Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 361-86.

Description
Concludes that either the virgule replicates Chaucer's own mark, or its rather uniform placement signals a scribal practice not yet fully understood.

Alternative Title
Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.