Textual Study of Thomas Tyrwhitt's Edition of the Canterbury Tales (1775-1778).

Author / Editor
Burns, Sister Mary Florence.

Title
Textual Study of Thomas Tyrwhitt's Edition of the Canterbury Tales (1775-1778).

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.04 (1961): 1154.

Description
Studies the Collation Text and the Printer's Copy of Tyrwhitt's edition of CT, identifying his reliance on two manuscript witnesses--British Library Harley 7335 and Cambridge University Library Dd.4.24--and establishing "his fidelity to the manuscripts and the extent of his contribution to the restoration of the text" of the poem. Affirms that Tyrwhitt produced the "first modern critical edition" of CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies