Jean d'Angoulême's Copy of "The Canterbury Tales": An Annotated Edition of Bibliothèque Nationale's Fonds Anglais 39 (Paris)

Author / Editor
Clermont-Ferrand, Meredith, ed.

Title
Jean d'Angoulême's Copy of "The Canterbury Tales": An Annotated Edition of Bibliothèque Nationale's Fonds Anglais 39 (Paris)

Published
Lewiston, N. Y.: Mellen, 2008.

Physical Description
xxxv, 473 pp.

Description
Clermont-Ferrand edits d'Angoulême's copy of CT, providing continuous lineation (15,080 lines), sidebar glossing, and bottom-of-page explanatory notes. The introduction (pp. vii-xxxv) comments on editing a "bad" copy of CT, various exemplars of the fifteenth-century manuscript known as Paris fonds anglais 39, its additions and deletions, John Duxworth as scribe, and d'Angoulême as patron, explaining the importance of the manuscript to the "variorum" tradition of editing CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General