The Wife of Bath’s Jankyn: Some Manuscript Evidence.
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Ralph.
The Wife of Bath’s Jankyn: Some Manuscript Evidence.
- Published
- Journal of the Early Book Society 23 (2020): 141-73.
- Description
- Investigates the "material conditions" that underlie the fictional book of "wikked wyves" described in WBP, 669-73, analyzing extant manuscripts that "most closely resemble Jankyn's volume" and have other Chaucerian and Oxonian associations. Explores “\"the ways in which this material history might inflect the Wife's account of the 'book' and her relation to it" and her relationship with Jankyn. Focuses on London, British Library, MS Burney 360; Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.6.12; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 147; Cambridge, St. John’s College, MS E.12 (115); and Bodleian Library, MS Digby 147
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies