Compiling the Canterbury Tales in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts

Author / Editor
Horobin, Simon.

Title
Compiling the Canterbury Tales in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts

Published
Chaucer Review 47.4 (2013): 372-89.

Description
Focusing on the MerE-SqH, argues that what has been seen as evidence of authorial revision in the manuscripts may simply be reflecting problem areas encountered by the scribes, including problems in accessing exemplars and linking passages, which often circulated on single leaves.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Squire and His Tale