The Findern Manuscript: A New Edition of the Unique Poems.

Author / Editor
Martin, Joanna M., ed.

Title
The Findern Manuscript: A New Edition of the Unique Poems.

Published
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Physical Description
viii, 222 pp.

Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.

Description
Edits thirty-four poems from Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6—those found in no other manuscript—with texts, notes, glossary, and bibliography. The introduction includes discussion of language and scribes, and commentary on the poems' place in "what might broadly be described as the Chaucerian tradition," with attention to quotations from TC in poem 21; poem 5 as a “much-neglected bit of Chaucerian apocrypha”; the “female voice” of poem 26, which echoes Ven; and more general Chaucerian and Lydgatian resonances.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Complant of Venus