John Bale, Thomas Hoccleve, and a Lost Chaucer Manuscript

Author / Editor
Perkins, Nicholas.

Title
John Bale, Thomas Hoccleve, and a Lost Chaucer Manuscript

Published
N&Q 252 (2007): 128-31.

Description
A heretofore unrecognized reference to KnT in the "Index Britanniæ Scriptorum," compiled by sixteenth-century antiquarian John Bale, provides evidence of a lost manuscript containing Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes" plus at least Chaucer's KnT and possibly the entire CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Knight and His Tale.