Lines from Chaucer's Melibee in an English Book of Hours, c. 1425-50.

Author / Editor
Rentz, Ellen K.

Title
Lines from Chaucer's Melibee in an English Book of Hours, c. 1425-50.

Published
Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 172-74.

Description
Argues that San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 64538, a short Middle English defense of women attributed to Solomon, appears to derive from Chaucer's Mel, specifically Mel, 1103-9. Suggests that "scholars ought to continue thinking about the relationship between books of hours and literary culture."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Tale of Melibee