'Alum de glas' or 'Alymed glass'? Manuscript Reading in Book III of The House of Fame

Author / Editor
Cawsey, Kathy.

Title
'Alum de glas' or 'Alymed glass'? Manuscript Reading in Book III of The House of Fame

Published
University of Toronto Quarterly 73 (2004): 972-79

Description
Cawsey suggests an emendation to HF 1124 and argues that the image of an "ice mountain limned in light, illuminated with gold, covered with melting writing" indicates Chaucer's concerns about literary transmission.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.