Primary texts:
“The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale”, pp. 105-22
“The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale”, pp. 153-68
Extracts from A Treatise on the Astrolabe, pp. 662-83 (All page references are to The Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. D. Benson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)).
Extracts from The Equatorie of the Planetis, pp. 117-43 (alternate pages) in Kari Anne Rand Schmidt, The Authorship of the Equatorie of the Planetis, Chaucer Studies 19 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993).
On manuscripts, editing and textual criticism:
(Out-of-print material will be made available as photocopies)
Blake, N.F., The Textual Tradition of the Canterbury Tales (London: Edward Arnold, 1985). Introduction; chs. 2, 3 and 4.
Brusendorff, Aage, The Chaucer Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925). Part I ch.3; Part II, chs. 1 and 3.
Donaldson, E.T., “The Manuscripts of Chaucer’s Works and Their Use” in Writers and Their Background: Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Derek Brewer (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1974), pp. 85-108.
Donaldson, E.T., “The Psychology of Editors of Middle English Texts” in Speaking of Chaucer (London: Athlone Press, 1970), pp. 102-18.
Horobin, S. C. P. “A New Approach to Chaucer’s Spelling”, English Studies 79 (1998), 415-24.
Mooney, Linne R., “Chaucer's Scribe”, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 81 (2006), 97-138.
Parkes, M.B. and Richard Beadle, Introductions and commentaries to The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library Ms Gg.4.27, 3 vols. (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1979-80).
Price, Derek J., The Equatorie of the Planetis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955). Chapters 1, 2 ,9, 10 and 11.
Ruggiers, Paul G., Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984). Introduction, chs. 1, 6, 8, 9 and 12.
Samuels, M.L., “Chaucer’s Spelling” in Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday ed. by Douglas Gray and E.G. Stanley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 17-37.
Schmidt, Kari Anne Rand, The Authorship of The Equatorie of the Planetis, Chaucer Studies 19 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993). Chs.1, 2 and 3.
Supplementary reading:
Bonner, Francis W. “The Genesis of the Chaucer Apocrypha”, Studies in Philology 48 (1951), 461-81.
Doyle, A.I. and M.B. Parkes, “Paleographical Introduction” in The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere Manuscript, ed. Paul G. Ruggiers (Norman, Okla.:University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), pp. xix-xlix.
Doyle, A.I. and M.B. Parkes, “The Production Copies of the Canterbury Tales and Confessio Amantis in the Early Fifteenth Century” in M.B. Parkes and A.G. Watson (eds.), Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N.R. Ker (London: Scolar Press, 1978), pp. 163-210. (Also in M.B. Parkes, Scribes, Scripts and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation and Dissemination of Medieval Texts (London: Hambledon Press, 1991).
Edwards, A.S.G., “Chaucer from Manuscript to Print: The Social Text and the Critical Text”, Mosaic 28 (1995), 1-12.
Owen, Charles A. Jr., The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Studies 17 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991). Selected chapters.
Partridge, Stephen, “Minding the Gaps. Interpreting the Manuscript Evidence of the Cook’s Tale and the Squire’s Tale” in A.S.G. Edwards et al. (eds), The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: The British Library, 2000).
Prendergast, Thomas A. and Barbara Kline, Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1999). Selected chapters.
Skeat, W.W., The Chaucer Canon: With a Discussion of the Works Associated with the Name of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900; repr. New York: Haskell House, 1965 and Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1974). Selected chapters.
Relevant facsimile editions available at Oslo University Library:
The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere Manuscript, ed. Paul G. Ruggiers (Norman, Okla.:University of Oklahoma Press, 1979).
The Ellesmere Ms. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall (London: The Chaucer Society, 1868 1881).
The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : A Working Facsimile, introduction by Ralph Hanna III (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1989; reproduction of the facsimile published by Manchester University Press in 1911).
Price, Derek J., The Equatorie of the Planetis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955).Facsimile of Peterhouse, Cambridge. MS 75.I on pp. 19-45 (alternate pages).
Schmidt, Kari Anne Rand Schmidt, The Authorship of the Equatorie of the Planetis, Chaucer Studies 19 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993). Facsimile of Peterhouse, Cambridge, MS 75.I on pp. 116-142 (alternate pages).
CD-roms available at Oslo University Library
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue on CD-rom. Edited by Peter Robinson with contributions from Norman Blake, Daniel W. Mosser, Stephen Partridge and Elizabeth Solopova (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales on CD-rom. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
The Hengwrt Chaucer: A Digital Facsimile. Edited by Estelle Stubbs. (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2002).
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale on CD-rom. Edited by Paul Thomas et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
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