Fifteenth-Century Owners of Chaucer's Work : Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 2006

Author / Editor
Erler, Mary C.

Title
Fifteenth-Century Owners of Chaucer's Work : Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 2006

Published
Chaucer Review 38: 401-14, 2004

Description
Pepys MS 2006 contains a unique grouping of Mel, ParsT, Truth, and Scog. Written by two scribes, it displays the names of John Kyriell (gentry) and William Fettyplace (London mercer). The two social classes of Kyriell and Fettyplace indicate either a broadening of the readership of Chaucer's works or a decline in the status of his readers.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Tale of Melibee
Parson and His Tale.
Truth.
Envoy to Scogan.