Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
- Published
- Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009.
- Physical Description
- 176 pp.
- Description
- Includes a study that details the bibliographical and physical instability of two variants of the 1542 Chaucer edition--the Reynes imprint and the Bonham imprint--as they exist in the Hoe, the Chew, and the Hagen-Clark copies, paying particular attention to the title pages. Dane argues, with George Kane and against Skeat and Robinson, that the Cambridge MS Gg LGWP is a variant of the F version, rather than an authorial revision. Unlike Kane, Dane attributes radical textual variation to catastrophic manuscript damage rather than to ordinary scribal practice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies