Author Attributions in Medieval Text Collections: An Exploration.

Description: Offers six case studies of multi-text manuscripts to investigate "medieval concepts of authorship and . . . constructions of authority." Shows that Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden B.24 (including TC, PF, Truth, Mars, Venus, LGW, and nineteen works by other writers) is an “attempt to create an anthology coherent in theme(s) and . . . poetic form,” inaugurated by TC. Paratextual references to Chaucer as author is “a key means” to achieve coherence