Gamelyn's Place among the Early Exemplars for Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Thaisen, Jacob.

Title
Gamelyn's Place among the Early Exemplars for Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Neophilologus 97. 2 (2013): 395-415

Description
Applying ANOVA/Tukey's Range Test on nine early CT manuscripts, the author finds that none of them is based on exemplars written in more than three hands. Attributes the final ordering in the first manuscripts of CT to "the poem's first two scribes, probably working after Chaucer's death and spuriously adding the Tale of Gamelyn."

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
Chaucerian Apocrypha