Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Auchinleck MSl : Analogous Collections?

Author / Editor
Vaughan, Míceál F.

Title
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Auchinleck MSl : Analogous Collections?

Published
Archiv 242 (2005): 259-74.

Description
Manuscript compilations, especially the Auchinleck MS, are structural analogues to CT. Manuscripts segmented into booklets parallel the fragments in CT in four ways: segments vary considerably in size and shape; common subjects and themes link portions that are not contiguous; segments evince multiple "voices" in scribal hands and literary styles; and portions are incomplete or unfinished.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.