Some Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Silvia, Daniel S.

Title
Some Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 153-63.

Description
Distinguishes between two kinds of manuscripts of CT: those in which the entire poem is the sole item or the dominant one and those in which individual tales appear in anthologies. Focuses on the second kind, observing the moral or courtly nature of the anthologized tales and identifying more specific characteristics (readership, affiliations, Chaucer's repute), particularly those of two manuscripts held at the Huntington Library (Ph4 and Hn).

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General