A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's "Melibeus" Considered in Its Relation to the French Source.

Author / Editor
Hartung, Albert E.

Title
A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's "Melibeus" Considered in Its Relation to the French Source.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. Lehigh University, 1957. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://preserve.lehigh.edu/lehigh-scholarship/graduate-publications-theses-dissertations/theses-dissertations/study-textual.

Physical Description
viii, 111 pp.

Description
Compares "the accepted and variant readings of 'Melibeus' with the corresponding passages in the French source, 'Le Livre de Melibee et Prudence'," assessing variants from fifty-seven manuscriptsof Mel and arguing that there was "an earlier version of 'Melibeus' by Chaucer in general circulation during the time the manuscripts we now have were copied."

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations