"Arnold of the Newe Toun" Revisited: A Note on the Sources of the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Brady, Lindy, and Andrew Rabin.
"Arnold of the Newe Toun" Revisited: A Note on the Sources of the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 174-77.
- Description
- Demonstrates that in his remarks on distilling mercury, the Canon's Yeoman draws from Arnald Villanova's "De secretis" rather than from the "Rosarium," as the Yeoman claims (CYT 8.1028-29). Claims that Chaucer's misidentification plausibly springs from the works' frequently appearing together in manuscripts in which the term "Rosarium" would denote a florilegium.
- Contributor
- Rabin, Andrew.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations