Three Unnoticed Links Between Matthew of Vendôme's Comedia Lidie and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale

Author / Editor
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.

Title
Three Unnoticed Links Between Matthew of Vendôme's Comedia Lidie and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale

Published
N&Q 248: 158-62, 2003.

Description
Argues that Chaucer had direct knowledge of Vendôme's text and suggests a possible manuscript source of it: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Pluteus 33.31.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.