1st Edition
A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts Volume Two: The Canterbury Tales
By M.C. Seymour
Copyright 1997
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This second volume, which completes the first comprehensive catalogue of Chaucer's manuscripts, describes the 56 extant copies and the fragments of 8 otherwise lost copies of the Canterbury Tales. These manuscripts, last examined together over 50 years ago, are here described after a fresh appraisal and in the light of modern scholarship, and some revisions of date, decoration, dialect, location,... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Canterbury Tales: The classification of the manuscripts; The order of the tales; The earliest manuscripts; Claims of authorial revision; The interpolations; Summary; THE MANUSCRIPTS; THE SMALLER FRAGMENTS; OTHER Recorded Manuscripts; Index of Former Owners and Inscribed Names; Volume I: Addenda and Corrigenda.
Biography
M.C. Seymour
’Seymour’s second volume has certainly been worth waiting for... This is, to repeat the conclusion of my review of the first volume in Reference Reviews Vol. 10/3 1996, 96/180, ’a must for all collections with pretentions to scholarship in English literature and cultural history.’ Reference Reviews 12/4
