Duxworth Redux : The Paris Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Crane, Susan.

Title
Duxworth Redux : The Paris Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales

Published
Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis, eds. Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton (Lewisburg, Penn: Bucknell University Press; and London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 17-44.

Description
Argues that scribe John Duxworth, rather than his patron Jean d'Angoulè‚me, was the guiding intelligence behind the execution of the Paris manuscript of CT (Ps) and that his revisions and errors are consistent with the habits of other scribes who treated manuscripts as compilatio.

Alternative Title
Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.