Codicology, Text, and the "Book of the Duchess."

Author / Editor
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.

Title
Codicology, Text, and the "Book of the Duchess."

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 11-27.

Description
Outlines the numerous problems surrounding BD's dating, occasion, early transmission history, title, and text. Because of the small number and lateness of manuscript witnesses, BD evinces significant "textual uncertainty"; consequently, literary interpretation must maintain "a proper awareness of the problems that inhere in the material evidence of its survival."

Contributor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Manuscripts and Textual Studies