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General Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

Devani Singh
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Chaucer's Early Modern Readers
Reception in Print and Manuscript
 , pp. 257 - 272
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General Index

accuracy
and authenticity, 82
collation, 65
correcting, 67, 68, 71, 78
correctness, 78, 223
desire for, 4, 37, 38, 42, 79
literary archaism, 48
Adams, Thomas
Workes, 35
adaptations of Chaucer, 52
Alexandria, library of, 90
All Souls College, Oxford, 10, 22, 26, 36
Allen, Thomas, 19, 194
amanuenses, 113, 128, see also copying, and copyists, scribes
ancient times, 20
Anderson, Andrew, 151
Anelida and Arcite (Chaucer), 84, 132, 137, 145, 147
anglicana script, 58, 62, 67, 108, 197
annotation, 28, 40, 65, 229
anonymity, 180–181, 182, 196
antiquarianism, 10–21, 28, 29, 62, 74, 82, 136, 161, 193, 207, 209
antiquity
archaic language, 49–50, 82, 182
Chaucer’s reputation, 20, 74
and perfecting of manuscripts, 37
and supplementing, 129
value of Chaucer’s antiquity, 4, 5, 6–8
aphorism, 132, 133, 138, 144
apparatus, critical, 177–178, 179, 181
archaeological work, 20, 210
archaism. see also Chaucerisms, hard words
corrected, 66–72
deliberate retention by printers, 81
glossing archaic scripts, 60–63
introduction by readers, 70, 82
Jonson on, 50
and obscenity, 44–47
Spenserian archaism, 70
architecture, 228
Ariosto, Ludovico, 66, 211
Aristotle, 124
arms, 96, 138, 208, 209, 213, 215
Ascham, Roger, 20, 214
Ashmole, Elias, 171
attribution, 179–204
Aubrey, John
Chronologia Vestiaria, 215–217
auctions, 10
auctoritas, 176
Augustine
Of the citie of God, 90
authenticity
archaism, 70, 81–82
of manuscripts and handwriting, 6, 24
in portraiture, 207–209, 211
authorising, 176–224
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 179–204
overview, 176–179
and portraiture, 204–221
printed books as monuments to Chaucer, 221–224
authority
authorising Chaucer, 176, 179, 209, 211, 215, 222–223
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 181, 182, 184, 187, 194, 201, 204
Chaucer’s portraiture, 209, 211, 215
of manuscripts, 38, 42, 66, 129
of the past, 4
of printed books, 58, 67–69, 79, 222–223
authorship. see also vernacular authorship
authorising Chaucer, 178, 199, 222, 223
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 180–181, 183, 184, 190, 191, 194, 196, 201, 204
Henryson’s Testament, 149, 150
printed books as monuments to Chaucer, 222, 223
and supplementing, 174–175
Bagford, John, 88
Bale, John, 15, 65, 164, 180
Bannatyne, George, 144–145
Bannatyne manuscript, 141, 144–145
Barkham, John, 97–100, 102–103, 158, 161, 164, 166
Barr, Helen, 8
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, 109
Batman, Stephen, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19, 163, 164
Batman upon Bartholomew, 55
Beadle, Richard, 61, 67, 93, 202
Beaumont, Francis, 17, 48–49, 51, 60, 132, 177–178
Bee, Cornelius, 10
Beinecke Library, 151
Benjamin, Walter, 227
Bennett, H. S., 78
Berthelet, Thomas, 23, 25, 174
bibliophilia, 126
binding, 12, 87–88, 99, 113, 128, 212
binding waste, 14, 88
biographical details, 192, 204, 221–222
biography, and portraiture, 210
black letter, 60, 81, 111, 168
Blair, Ann, 27
Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, 185–186, 187, 188, 193
blank spaces, 87, 113, 119, 122, 172
blue ink, 96, 191
bodily perfection, and mutilation, 30, 31, 89, 90, 92, 123–126
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 11, 66, 197
Bodley, Thomas, 11, 65
body, book as, 89, 90, 92
Boece (Chaucer), 6, 221
Boffey, Julia, 27, 131
Boleyn, Anne, 144
‘Bon counsail’ (poem), 138–140
The Book of the Duchess (Chaucer), 114–117, 118, 142, 184–188, 191, 193, 201
book history, 43, 123
book loss, 92
book use, 30, 40, 41, 173
bookbinders, 88
book-breaking, 88
bookcases, 22
books
book as body, 89, 90, 92
Chaucer and the book (overview), 1–9
manuscripts and print compared, 21–26
Books of Hours, 2, 12, 226, 227
booksellers, 33, 34–35, 36
bookwheel, 42
borders, 37, 54, 87, 93, 94, 108, 136, 140, 215
Bradshaw, Henry, 64, 97
Brae, A.E., 38
Braithwait, Richard
Chaucer’s Incensed Ghost, 52
Comment upon the Two Tales of our Ancient, Renowned, and Ever Living Poet Sr. Ieffray Chaucer, Knight, 52
Bremmer, Rolf H., 59
Brewer, Derek, 91
British Library, 96, 121, 215
broad language, 48, 49
broadsides, 206
Brode, John, 172
Brooke, Christopher, 74
Browne, William, 74–77, 82, 194–196
Britannia’s Pastorals, 74
buildings, perfecting of, 228
Burgh, Benedict
Magnus Cato, 195
Parvus Cato, 195
Burghersh, Maud, 206
Burrow, John, 119, 126
Buxton, John, 33–34
Byrom, H. J., 24
Cacemphaton, 46
Caldwell, Robert A., 55
Calvinism, 89, 149
Cambridge
Emmanuel College, 197
Magdalene College, 128
St John’s College, 146
Trinity College, 141–142, 143, 215
Camden, William, 214
cancel leaves, 147
canon
authority of, 179, 223
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 179, 181, 184, 191, 193, 194, 196, 199, 201, 204
Chaucer’s portrait, 219
Chaucerian compilations, 173
completeness of, 176, 210
print canon, 130–131, 140–146, 171–172
progressive expansion, 130, 131
supplementing, 127, 129, 130–131, 132, 140, 144, 171–172, 173
Tale of Gamelyn, 171–172
Canon Missae, 26–27
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
apocrypha and spurious tales, 84, 100–103, 126, 154–155, 156–158, 160–162, 163, 165–166
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 181, 202–204
Chaucer’s portrait, 215
Chaucerian compilations, 172
collating and correcting, 68–74
commonplacing Chaucer, 133, 137, 141–142, 143, 146
Gg manuscript and Holland, 93, 94, 133
Glasgow manuscript, 119–121, 202–204
Helmingham manuscript, 87
images, 88
language, 44, 49
Ld1 manuscript, 97–111
Ld2 manuscript, 68–72, 105–107, 121
Lichfield manuscript, 107–109
minor works and, 93
perfected Caxton editions, 28
repairing and completing, 84–85, 91
Ry2 manuscript, 72–74
supplementing, 133, 137, 141–142, 143, 146, 154, 160–162, 163, 165–166, 172
supplying lost leaves, 93, 94, 97–111
table of contents, 200, 202–204
Tc2 manuscript, 103–105
textual lacunae, 113–114, 119–121
Trinity manuscript, 141–142
Ware collection, 13
editions
Caxton editions, 28
1476 Caxton, 69, 105, 166, 215
1483 Caxton, 110, 166, 168, 169–170, 226
1492 Pynson, 111, 168
1498 de Worde, 85, 181
1526 Pynson, 168, 170
c. 1550 edition, 163
1721 Urry, 170, 171
tales
Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, 111, 202
Clerk’s Prologue, 105
Clerk’s Tale, 114, 202
Cook’s Tale, 84, 100–102, 103, 127, 128, 171, 173
Franklin’s Prologue, 114
Franklin’s Tale, 102
Friar’s Prologue, 108
Friar’s Tale, 107, 108
General Prologue, 72, 94, 107, 124, 141, 155, 157
Knight’s Tale, 70, 72, 104, 141
Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale, 72
Manciple’s Tale, 157
Merchant’s Prologue, 108
Miller’s Tale, 52
Nun’s Priest’s Tale, 155
Parson’s Prologue, 73
Parson’s Tale, 44, 72–74, 93, 156–157, 159, 161, 163, 167, 168
Plowman’s Tale (apocryphal), 102–103, 156–158, 163, 165–166
Prioress’s Tale, 202
Retraction, 161, 163, 166–172, 175, 202, 214
Shipman’s Tale, 202
Sir Thopas, Prologue, 108
Sir Thopas, Tale, 108, 119
Squire’s Tale, 53, 84, 85, 108, 113, 126, 127, 128, 154, 155–156
Summoner’s Tale, 105–107
Tale of Gamelyn (apocryphal), 84, 100–102, 126
Tale of Melibee, 108, 132, 179
Wife of Bath’s Prologue, 72, 105–107, 124–125, 132
Wife of Bath’s Tale, 53, 72, 107, 137, 138
Canterbury Tales: composed for the Entertainment of All Ingenuous young Men and Maids (jestbook), 181
carets, 67, 71, 114
Carlson, David, 208
Carnarvon, Earl of, 171
castigatio, 65, 89
castigators, 65
cataloguing, 26, 229
catchwords, 22, 111, 115
Catholicism, 12, 65, 155, 156, 157, 158, 163, 165
Caxton, William
archaic language, 51, 81
Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite, 132, 137
Chaucer’s Boece, 6, 221
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
1476 edition, 69, 105, 166, 215
1483 edition, 110, 166, 168, 169–170, 226
perfected copies, 28, 226
used to complete manuscripts, 105
used to correct manuscripts, 69, 70, 72
Chaucer’s epitaph, 6, 221
Chaucer’s House of Fame, 85, 117–118
Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles, 132, 192
Chaucer’s portrait, 213, 215, 221
The game of chess, 109
Gower’s Confessio Amantis, 23, 41
Higden’s Polychronicon, 27
philological recovery of Chaucer’s works, 221
psalter, 27
Recuyell, 17, 21
repairing and completing, 85
resale value, 29
short poems, lyrics, ballades, 132
Cecil, Sir Robert, 213
censorship, 161
Chamberlain, Eric, 220
champs, 108
Chance of the Dice (anonymous poem), 114
chancery hand, 62
chapbooks, 206
Chapman, George, 211
Charles d’Orleans, 93
Charteris, Henry, 147, 148
charters, 15
The Chastising of God’s Children (anonymous), 12
Chaucer, Geoffrey
antiquaries reading manuscript and print, 13, 17–21
authorising, 176–224
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 179–204
Chaucer and the book, 1–9
Chaucer-the-author, 174–175
commonplacing Chaucer, 131–146
death of, 1, 192, 202, 210, 217, 222
glossing, correcting, and emending, 44–83
influence and presence, 8–9, 53–54
objections to his language, 44–54
perfecting print and manuscript copies, 27, 29, 30, 37–38, 39, 40–43, 225, 229
physical remains, 210
portraits, 90–91, 92, 178, 179, 204–221
reception and reputation, 3–4, 5, 17–21, 40–41, 130, 176–179, 210, 223
repairing and completing, 84–126
supplementing, 127–175
tomb, 6, 222
works
Anelida and Arcite, 84, 132, 137, 145, 147
Boece, 6, 221
The Book of the Duchess, 114–117, 118, 142, 184–188, 191, 193, 201
Canterbury Tales. see Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Chaucer’s ABC, 184, 191, 193
Complaint to his Purse, 19, 76, 133, 138–140, 184, 192, 194–195, 196, 201, 214, 223
Compleynt unto Pite, 192
Gentilesse, 133, 137–138, 143
The House of Fame, 84, 85, 93, 114, 115, 117–118, 126, 132, 142–143, 179
The Legend of Good Women, 82, 84, 93, 114, 149, 197
Parliament of Fowles, 8, 81, 93, 132, 133–137, 146, 192
A Treatise on the Astrolabe, 37–38
Troilus and Criseyde. see Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer)
Words to Adam (‘Chaucers words to his Scrivener’), 133, 138–140, 214
Workes. see Workes (Chaucer)
Chaucer, Thomas, 206
Chaucer book, 86
Chaucerisms, 48, 50
Chaucer’s ABC, 184, 191, 193
‘Chaucer’s Dreame’, 201
chemical reagents, 227
Chettle, Henry, 153
children, and disability, 124
Christ Church, Canterbury, 15
Christine de Pizan, 132, 208
Chronicles of England, 109
church monuments, 217
Cicero, 92
De Fato, 90
Clanvowe, Thomas, 184, 196
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, 199
Clifford, Lady Anne, 130
closure, 126
clothing, 215–217
Cloud, Random, 122
coats of arms, 138, 209
The Cobler of Caunterburie (anonymous), 52
codex, 21, 26, 64, 84, 86, 94, 172, 200
collating
and correcting, 63–77, 78–79
digital, 229
reconciling past and present, 4
collectors, and collections, 10–11, 13
college libraries, 22
College of Arms, 16, 96, 138
colophons, 27, 28, 179
colour printing, 23
Columbia University, 215
commonplacing, 73, 75, 136, 141, 144
compilations, 172–175
The Complaint of the Black Knight (Lydgate), 184, 191, 193, 199
Complaint to his Purse (Chaucer), 19, 76, 133, 138–140, 184, 192, 194–195, 196, 201, 214, 223
completeness
bibliographical and bodily, 129, 177
mutilated bodies and books, 89, 90, 123–125, 126
perfecting print and manuscript, 4, 29, 30, 32–33, 34–40, 42, 223
repairing and completing, 84–87, 89, 90, 94, 118, 123–125, 126
completing. see repairing and completing
Compleynt unto Pite (Chaucer), 192
comprehensibility, 71, 78, 82, 223
Condell, Henry, 31
Connolly, Margaret, 2, 12, 179
conservation, 92, 227, 228
construe-marks, 68
contents lists, 179, 194, see also tables of contents
Cook, Megan L., 4, 9, 94, 96, 140, 149, 162, 178
Cooke, Matthew, 157
Cooper, Charlotte, 209
Cooper, Helen, 5, 8, 127
Coote, Edmund
The English schoole-maister, 55
Copland, Robert, 81, 85, 90
copperplate engraving, 206
copying, and copyists, 15, 24, 128, 174, see also amanuenses, scribes
copytexts, 64, 76, 117, 202
‘Cornhyll’ (scribe), 113–114
corporeal imagery, 123–126
corpus, 92, 173
correcting
absence of, 77–79
Canterbury Tales image, 72
collating and correcting, 63–77
as evidence of reception, 223
and glossing, 63
overwriting, 48, 70
perfecting print and manuscript, 30, 40
printing errors, 25
reasons for, 77–83
reconciling past and present, 4
correction slips, 77
correctness, 78, 223, see also accuracy
correctors, 65
costume, 215–217
Cotton, Sir Robert, 11, 16, 24, 58, 220
The Craft of Lovers (‘The crafte of love’), 192, 193
critical apparatus, 177–178, 181
crossing out, 48
Crowley, Robert, 180
customisation, 14, 28, 55, 58, 173, 229
Dane, Joseph A., 9, 85, 86, 160, 167–168, 170, 171, 186, 222
Dante, 66, 208
Davenport, George, 195–196, 204
De proprietatibus rerum (Bartholomaeus Anglicus), 109
de Worde, Wynkyn, 18, 28, 81, 85, 181
decoration
in Caxtons, 28
gaps for, 87, 122
incunabula, 23
lost leaves, 93, 96, 97–99, 107, 108, 111
mutilated manuscripts, 87
decorum, 48
Dee, John, 10
defectiveness, 123, 125
deformation, 32
Dekker, Thomas, 153
Delamere manuscript, 215
demi-vinets, 108
Denyer, Eliza Dennis, 37, 226
Devonshire manuscript, 145
devotional texts, 88, 163
‘A devoute balette to oure lady’, 184
difficult language, 20, 46, 47, 48–49, 50–51
digital texts, 228–229
Dinshaw, Carolyn, 42, 123
disability, 123–124
disbinding, 227
The Doctrine of the Hert, 12
Domesday Book, 58, 228
Donne, John, 210
Drayton, Michael
Poly-Olbion, 74
The Dreame of Chaucer, 186, 201
Dryden, John, 8
du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, 211
Dudley, Robert, 190
Dugdale, William, 16, 59
Durham Cathedral, 88
E. K., 49, 70
Eadwine Psalter, 103
Earle, John, 10, 16
early modern, defining, 1, 42
early modern books
and medieval books, 2
medieval manuscripts to early modern print, 21–26
EarlyPrint Lab, 70
Echard, Siân, 7, 40, 211, 219, 228
editing and editorial work, 31, 76, 77, 183
editorial theory, 123
Edward 1v, 172
Edwards, A. S. G., 2, 9, 76, 115, 121, 183
EEBO-TCP corpus, 70
Egerton manuscript (BL, MS Egerton 2726), 103, 170–172
Eight Goodlie Questions, 141
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, 3
Elizabethan literary tradition, 153
Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, 16, 19, 55
Ellesmere manuscript, 179, 200, 225
Elyot, Sir Thomas, 144
emendare, 65
emending
collating and correcting, 63–77
perfecting print and manuscript, 30, 40
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 197
English language, 223, see also Middle English
Old English, 15, 26, 59
English literature, 219
engravings, 19, 52, 204–211, 215, 217, 220
Enlightenment, 124
enriched Index, 59
Ensley, Mimi, 163
ephemera, 3
epitaph, Chaucer’s tomb, 222
Erasmus
Adages, 23
erasures, 44–45, 47–48, 70, 71–72, 174
Erler, Mary C., 27
errata, 35–36, 78, 80
errors
Canterbury Tales, 71, 73
collating and correcting, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 73
glossing, 58, 77, 78, 80
printers, 24, 25
and religious truth, 66
Troilus and Criseyde, 67, 68
Espie, Jeff, 8
Ewelme church, 206, 207
explicits, 108, 114, 126, 147, 149, 150
extra-illustration, 220
facsimile copies, 39, 219, 225–226, 227, 228
Fairfax manuscript
canonicity, Chaucer’s name, and Stow, 183, 186–187, 191–192, 194
commonplacing, 142–143, 146
textual lacunae, 114–118
female body, 124–125
female readers, 44–45, 47
fin amour, 172
Fleming, Juliet, 173
Floure and the Leafe, 17
Florentine scholars, 65
florilegia, 144
Florio, John, 211
Floris and Blancheflur, 99
foliation, 22
foreign words, 50, 58
forgery, 226–227
Forni, Kathleen, 131, 162, 166, 171, 199, 201, 204
Fortuna, 149
Fox, Denton, 141, 150
Foxe, Edward, 114
Foxe, John, 8, 156, 157–158, 161, 162, 164, 165
Actes and Monuments, 156, 158, 167
Fragmentarium project, 229
fragmentology, 228–229
Francis, F.C., 35
French words, 58
friezes, 66
frontispieces, 113, 212, 213, 214, 215, 220
Fust, Johann, 26
Gadd, Ian, 183
Galen, 124
The game of chess (Caxton), 109
Gascoigne, George
Posies, 55, 153
Gaskell, Philip, 39
gathered books, 31
gender, 123, 124
genealogical portraits, 138, 178, 204, 206–207, 215, 219
Gentilesse (Chaucer), 133, 137–138, 143
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 58
Historia regum Brittaniae, 96
Gerard, John
The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, 34
Gg manuscript (CUL, MS Gg.4.27)
Chaucer’s ABC, 191
Chaucer’s portrait, 213–214, 221
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 151–153, 154
cleaned, 174
commonplacing, 133–141, 143–144, 145
glossing, 54–58, 62–63
images, 96, 136
mutilated manuscripts, 91, 92
Stow’s mention in Fairfax, 187
supplying lost leaves, 93–97, 99, 108
Gildas, 193
Gillespie, Alexandra
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 179, 180, 182, 183, 186, 193, 196
Chaucer and religion, 162
Chaucer epitaph, 222
Chaucer’s presence, 221
Chaucerian compilations, 174
new printed books, 81
Old Books New Science Lab, 183
Print Culture, 9, 157, 160, 163, 166
Stow essay collection, 183
‘Turk’s-Head Knots’, 123
Gillespie, Vincent, 21
Glasgow manuscript, Canterbury Tales, 119–121, 202–204
glossaries
Chaucer’s antiquity, 20
Chaucerisms and archaic language, 49, 50, 51–52
glossing, 54–63
Holland, 54–61, 63, 82
Junius, 59
Speght, 44, 47, 51–52, 55–60, 61, 62–63, 69, 77, 82, 178
Troilus and Criseyde, 60–63
glossing, correcting, and emending, 30, 40, 44–83, 223
against Chaucerisms, 48–54
Chaucer’s japes, 44–48
collating and correcting, 63–77
glossing, 54–63
reasons for, 77–83
Glover, Robert, 188
Godfray, Thomas, 156
‘The goode councell of Chawcer’, 184
Gorranus, Nicolaus, 35
Gospel books, 88
Gower, John, 4, 13, 41, 49–50, 70, 179, 193, 225
Confessio Amantis, 23, 41
Grafton, Anthony, 42
Granger, James
A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, 220
Great Picture, 130
Greaves, Paul
Grammatica Anglicana, 51
Vocabula Chauceriana, 55
Greene, Robert
Vision, 49–50
Grenville, Thomas, 226
Griffiths, Jeremy, 61, 67
Guillaume de Machaut, 208
Hackel, Heidi Brayman, 36
Hamel, Christopher de, 87
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott, 127
handwriting, 3, 24, 41, 174
Harbus, Antonina, 132, 136
hard words
Canterbury Tales, 69, 70
Chaucerisms and archaic language, 48–49, 50–51
collating and correcting, 68, 69, 70, 74, 77
glossing, 58, 61, 63, 78
Holland’s glossary, 55, 58
Speght’s glossary, 77
Troilus and Criseyde, 61, 63, 68
Harington, John, 206, 211
Harley image, 209
Harris, John, 226
Harris, Jonathan Gil, 2, 4, 209
Harrison, Robert, 195
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas, 159–160, 222
Harvey, Gabriel, 42, 153
Hatton, Christopher, 16
Hawes, Stephen, 181
Pastime of Pleasure, 17
‘H. B.’, 52, 178
‘The Reader to Geffrey Chaucer’, 176–177, 212
headings, 200
Healey, John, 89
Hearne, Thomas, 88, 158, 161, 164, 167
Helmingham manuscript, 87
Heminge, John, 31
Henderson, Robert, 149
Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript, 113, 225
Henry v, 208–209
Henry v111, 141
Act for the Advancement of True Religion, 165
Henry E. Huntington Library (HEHL), 1
Henryson, Robert
The Testament of Cresseid, 53, 133, 147–154, 173, 175
heraldic shields, 213, 215
herbals, 79
Herks, Garbrand, 10, 36
Herks, Richard, 36
Herrick, Robert
‘His Request to Julia’, 32
Heywood, Jasper, 23–25
Heywood, Thomas, 153
2 The Iron Age, 153
Higden, Ranulf
Polychronicon, 27
Higgins, Ben, 33
Hilton, John
Catch That Catch Can, 44
Hind, Arthur M., 207
Hindman, Sandra, 226
Historia regum Brittaniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth), 96
historical time, 42–43
Hoccleve, Thomas
and Browne, 74, 75–76, 194–195, 196
Chaucer’s portrait, 90–91, 207–209, 211, 212, 213–214, 217, 219
Chaucer’s Scholar, 217
Gesta, 75
Hengwrt’s Hand F, 113
Letter of Cupid, 75, 145, 199
Miracle of the Virgin (The Monk and our Blessed Lady’s Sleeves), 154–156
purported authorship of Purse, 194–195, 196
Regement of Princes, 75, 76, 90, 92, 208, 214, 215, 217
single-author compilations, 93
Stow and Fairfax manuscript, 184
Stow’s annotations, 193
Tanner manuscript, 196
To the Kings Most Noble Grace, 141
To the Lordes and Knyghtes of the Garter, 141
‘Hoccleve to his emptie purse’, 192
Holland, Joseph
bibliographic perfecting, 96
biography, 138
Chaucer’s ABC, 19
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 151–153
Gg glossary, 54–61, 63, 82
Gg manuscript, 54, 58, 92, 93–97, 99, 133–141, 151–153, 169–170, 174, 187, 191, 213–214
repairing and completing, 93–97, 99, 103, 125
rolls of arms, 96
Speed’s Chaucer portrait, 138, 213–214
supplementing overview, 55, 173, 213–214
supplying lost leaves, 93–97, 99, 103
Homer, 20, 199, 210–211
homographs, 51
Horace, 77
Horobin, Simon, 12, 81, 164
The House of Fame (Chaucer), 84, 85, 93, 114, 115, 117–118, 126, 132, 142–143, 179
House of Lancaster, 185–187
human body, 89, 90, 92, 123–126
humanism, 7–8, 65, 89, 123, 176, 221
hybridity, 26–27, 29, 38
Hyde, Edward (Earl of Clarendon)
History of the Rebellion, 220
Hypermnestra, 197
iconoclasm, 87, 88
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), 229
illumination, 22, 28, 37, 90, 93, 94, 108, 212, 213, 215, 227
illustration, 93, 113, 220
images, 27, 88, 113, 219, 220–221, 228–229
imperfection, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 89, 90
imperfectus, 30, 89
incipits, 94, 100, 108, 114, 147, 149
incompleteness, 38–39, 112, 113, 123–124, 125, 126, 129
incunabula, 3, 20, 22–23, 26, 27, 28–29, 109, 226
indexes, 59
initial words, 108
initials, 97, 108, 111, 169, 212
ink
blue ink, 96, 191
red ink, 55, 108
inkhornism, 50
institutional catalogues, 25
institutional libraries, 11
intaglio engraving, 204
integer, 125
intimacy, 17
Irvine, Annie S., 160
The Isle of Ladies (poem), 17, 201
Islip, Adam, 136
Italian manuscript trade, 21
itinerant frontispieces, 213, 220
Jack Upland, 156, 157, 162, 165, 167
James, Thomas, 65–66
japes, 44–47, 48, 81
Jardine, Lisa, 42
Jensen, Kristian, 29
jestbooks, 181
jests, 44–46, 47, 181
Jesus Christ, 90, 156, 169, 172
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 186, 188
John Rylands Library, Manchester, 168, 169, 172
Johnston, Hope, 178, 214
Jones, Sarah, 35
Jonson, Ben, 50, 52, 199
Joscelyn, John, 15
Junius, Franciscus, 59, 79
Kelen, Sarah, 41
Ker, N. R., 199
Kerling, Johan, 45, 51, 59
King Horn, 99
Kirwan, Peter, 131
Knight, Jeffrey Todd, 14, 141, 173, 174
Kynaston, Sir Francis, 53, 148, 214, 221
L1 manuscript (Cambridge, St John’s College, MS L.1), 60–64, 66–68, 77, 146–147, 148, 150–151, 154
Lacroix, Paul
Vie militaire et religieuse au Moyen-Âge et à l’époque de la renaissance, 227
lacunae, 112–122
Lambeth Palace, 199
Lancaster, House of, 185–187
Lane, John, 53
Lang, Andrew, 226–227
Langland, William, 13, 41
Piers Plowman, 10, 12, 41, 155, 161, 163, 164, 180
language. see also archaism, Middle English
broad language, 48, 49
collating and correcting, 66, 68, 70
difficulty of, 20, 46, 47, 48–49, 50–51
English language, 223
foreign words, 50, 58
glossing, 54–63, 78
objections to Chaucer’s archaism, 48–54
objections to Chaucer’s obscenity, 44–48
Old English, 15, 26, 59
in print vs. manuscripts, 80–81, 82–83
Welsh-language texts, 53, 154
Latin, 53, 62, 68, 214, 222
Laud, Archbishop William, 97, 99, 100, 103
lawyers, 48
Ld1 manuscript (Bodl. MS Laud Misc. 600), 87, 97–103, 108, 158, 171
Ld2 manuscript (Bodl. MS Laud Misc. 739), 68–72, 77, 105–107, 121
leaves, lost, 93–112
Lee, Sidney, 123, 226
legal records, 48
The Legend of Good Women (Chaucer), 82, 84, 93, 114, 149, 197
legibility, 62–63
Leland, John, 15
lemmatas, 55, 58
Lerer, Seth, 80, 221
‘The letter of Cupydge gode of love’, 184
lexicography, 52, 58, 59–60
libraries, 10–12, 13, 16, 21–22, 26
Lichfield, John, 53
Lichfield manuscript, 87, 107–109
Life of Chaucer, 51, 177, 178, 188, 210
Life of St. Alexius, 195
‘The life of St. Margaret’, 195
literary authority, 176, 179, 181, 184, 187, 223
literary authorship, 180–181
literary paternity, 223
Littleton, Sir Thomas de, 217
Lollards, 155, 160, 162, 166
lost leaves, supplying, 93–112
Lovell, John Lord, 97
love poems, 144, 145
Lovell Lectionary, 58, 97
luck, 149
Luther, Martin, 89, 92
‘Lyly’ (transcriber), 15
Lydgate, John
‘Bon counsail’ attribution, 140
canon, 194, 223
Churl and the Bird, 154
Complaint of the Black Knight, 184, 191, 193, 199
Durham manuscript and Davenport, 195–196
Fairfax manuscript, 114, 184
Gg manuscript and Holland, 99, 137, 138–140, 214
‘The horse the shepe and the Gose’, 192
reception, 41
Siege of Thebes, 140, 154, 190, 195
single-author manuscript compilations, 93
and Stow, 184, 190, 191–192, 193
Tanner manuscript, 196
The Temple of Glass, 114, 133, 184, 192, 199, 201
Ware collection, 13
lyric poetry, 142, 146, 175, 180
lyrics, 141, 142, 143, 173
Macham, Samuel, 157
Machan, Tim, 5, 123, 176, 178, 181, 196
Maguire, Laurie, 87
makeweights, 142
male body, 124
manicules, 132, 133
Manly, John, 69, 88, 90, 97, 108, 155
manuscripts. see also parchment
antiquaries and medieval manuscript trajectories, 10–21
borders, 37, 54, 87, 93, 94, 108, 136, 140, 215
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 179, 181, 182–184, 188–190, 191–194, 195–196, 199–204
champs, 108
Chaucer portraits in, 209, 211–212, 213, 214–220
Chaucerian book afterlives, 2–6, 7, 9
cleaning of, 94, 99
decoration, 23, 28, 87, 93, 96, 97–99, 107, 108, 111, 122
demi-vinets, 108
first print-manuscript hybrid book, 26
illumination, 22, 28, 37, 90, 93, 94, 108, 212, 213, 215, 227
intersection between manuscript and print, 3–4
manuscript culture, 2
manuscripts and print compared, 21–26
manuscripts as perfectible, 36–43
manuscript-to-manuscript transmission, 28, 79
manuscript-to-print transmission, 28
modern perfecting of medieval manuscripts, 225–229
mutilated manuscripts, 87–93
new printed books and correction of manuscripts, 79–81
perfecting print and manuscript, 26–43
print-to-manuscript transmission, 27, 29, 79–80, 112, 184, 222
reception of medieval manuscripts, 2–3
repairing and completing, 84, 87–93
rubrication, 22, 28, 108, 114, 169
transcription, 14–16, 22, 58
Manutius, Aldus, 23
Manwood, Sir Peter, 24, 62
maps, 206, 207
Marcus, Leah, 210
marginal glosses, 28, 60, 61
Martin, Thomas, 159, 202–204
Massai, Sonia, 30
Material Evidence in Incunabula Database, 28
Mayer, Jean-Christophe, 77, 78
McKerrow, R.B., 227
McKitterick, David, 15, 21, 25, 29, 34, 36, 111
medical herbals, 79
medieval, periodisation, 1
medieval books, and early modern books, 2
medieval literature, 182–183, 190, 193
medieval manuscripts
antiquaries and medieval manuscript trajectories, 10–21
comparison with print, 21–26
perfecting medieval manuscripts, 225–229
reception of, 2–3
medievalists, 2, 123
Merlin, 137
metal engravings, 204–206, 209, 220
Middle Ages, 8, 126
Middle English
antiquaries and manuscript trajectories, 12–13
authors and critical apparatus, 178
black letter typeface, 81
Browne collection, 74, 75, 76–77
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 131, 184, 193, 194, 200
Canterbury Tales, 69, 71
Chaucer’s obscene language, 44, 45, 46, 47–48
Chaucerisms and archaic language, 49, 51–52, 53
collating and correcting, 63, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76–77
glossing, 55, 58, 60, 61, 62–63
Holland’s glossary, 55, 58, 60
Polychronicon copy, 27
preservation of, 81
pronouns, 169
reception of manuscripts, 2, 41
repairing and completing, 105, 114, 121, 123, 126
Speght’s glossary, 51–52, 60
Stow’s work, 193
tables of contents, 200
Troilus and Criseyde, 61, 62–63, 68
vernacular authorship, 196
Ware collection, 13
Middle Scots, 147, 153
Middleton, Thomas, 32
A Game at Chesse, 31
No Wit/Help Like a Woman’s, 47
Miège, Guy
A new dictionary French and English, 32
Milton, John, 8
Minnis, Alistair, 179
Mirador, 229
miscellanies, 144
mise-en-page, 55, 100, 108
Miskimin, Alice, 9
Misodiaboles, 46
Ulisses upon Ajax, 45
missals, 13, 26, 36
mixed hand, 62
Montaigne, Michel de, 211
monuments
books as monuments to Chaucer, 221–224
church monuments, 217
moral properties of texts, 122–123, 137–138
moveable type, 87
Munro, Lucy, 45, 49, 177
Musculus, Wolfgang, 35
mutilation
mutilated bodies and books, 122–126
mutilated manuscripts, 87–93
perfecting, 30, 32
Nafde, Aditi, 3, 27
name, author’s, 179–182
Nashe, Thomas, 50
Strange Newes, 50
national library, 11
Neville, Alexander, 103
Neville, Thomas, 103–104
North, Marcy L., 180
Norton manuscript, 91
Norton-Smith, John, 118
note-taking, 144
Nowell, Nathaniel, 34
obscure words, 69, 70, 74
O’Connell, Brendan, 160
OED (Oxford English Dictionary), 38, 64
old and new books, 4–5, 7, 20, 43, 81
Old Books New Science Lab, 183
Old English, 15, 26, 59
orality, 102, 103
ordinatio, 73, 200
Ordnance Survey, 228
orthography, 69, 70, 72
Otley, Jane, 114
Ovenden, Richard, 10, 11
overwriting, 48, 70
Ovid
Metamorphoses, 136
ownership marks, 28
Oxford, 22, 27
All Souls College, 10, 22, 26, 36
Bodleian Library, 11, 66, 197
St John’s College, 226
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer, 5
Page, R. I., 39–40
page layout, 22
page signatures, 22, 111
paintings, 228
palaeography, 42, 62, 63, 88, 164, 200
pamphlets, 17, 45, 49
paper
durability, 24
preservation, 225
repairs, 28, 111
supply leaves, 104
paraf signs, 97
paratexts
canonicity and Chaucer’s name, 181, 183, 191, 196, 201, 204
Holland additions, 214
literary authority, 178–179, 222, 223
portraiture, 204, 211, 212–213
prefatory text, 23
Sancroft additions, 201
Speght additions, 178, 211
Stow additions, 183, 191
parchment
erasures, 47
longevity, 24, 87–88
parchment books, 36
repairing and completing, 87–88, 94, 97, 107, 108
in supplementing, 174
Tanner manuscript, 196
Paris, Matthew, 26
Parker, John, 13, 15, 103, 162
Parker, Archbishop Matthew, 11, 12, 13–15, 26, 39–40, 103, 162
Parkes, Malcolm, 93
Parliament of Fowles (Chaucer), 8, 81, 93, 132, 133–137, 146, 192
paternity, literary, 223
Patient Grissil (play), 52
patrons, 182
Pearsall, Derek, 17, 58, 164
pendant, in Chaucer portrait, 207
Pepys, Samuel, 88, 91, 109–110, 111, 128–129, 220
Diary, 128
perfect books, 31
perfecting
afterlife, 225–229
bibliographical perfection, 29–39
Lee’s hierarchy of perfection and First Folio, 123, 226
motivations for, 129
Pepys’s books, 128
readers encouraged by editors, 127
rhetoric of mutilation, 122–125, 127
in scribal workshops, 112
warranties of perfection, 33, 34–35, 36
Pericles, 5
periodisation, 42–43
Petrarch, 66, 208, 211
philological work, 210–211, 221
photo-zincography, 228
Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede, 49, 55, 161–165
Piers Plowman (Langland), 10, 12, 41, 155, 161, 163, 164, 180
pilgrim portraits, 93, 94, 113
Pipe Rolls, 228
Pits, John, 195
plates, 212–213, 214
playbooks, 30, 32, 180
plays, 52
Plowman tradition, 154–166, 172, 173, 175
Plowman’s Tale (anonymous), 73, 102–103, 155, 156–168, 202
poetic authority, 178
poetry, 17, 22, 131–132
love poems, 144, 145
lyric poetry, 142, 146, 175, 180
Poggio, 125
Pollard, A.W., 122
polychronicity, 209
Pore Caitiff, 12
portrait heads, 220
portraits
added to manuscripts, 179, 223
appearance of author portraits, 210
as authorising paratexts, 204, 222
Hoccleve’s Chaucer image, 90–91, 207–209, 211, 212, 213–214, 217, 219
pilgrim portraits, 93, 94, 113
portraiture and biography, 210
removal of, 90–91, 93, 94
Speed’s Chaucer plate, 19, 97, 204–208, 209–210, 211, 212–221
Speght’s editions, 19, 97, 178, 188, 206, 207–208, 209–214, 215, 219–221
Potts, Stephen, 10
Pratt, Aaron, 32, 34
prayer books, 13
preservation, 91, 92, 93, 94–96, 225
print
antiquaries reading manuscript and print, 10–21
and authorial canons, 183–184, 187, 188–190, 202
bibliographic perfection, 26–43
canonicity and authority, 180–182, 193, 194, 195–197, 199, 200–202, 204
Chaucer and the book overview, 3–4, 7, 9
Chaucer portraiture in print, 209–212, 215–219, 220–221
collating and correcting, 63–64, 67–69
colour printing, 23
and digital texts, 228
first print-manuscript hybrid book, 26
imperfect printing, 34
intersection between manuscript and print, 3–4
makeweights in, 142
manuscripts and print compared, 21–26
manuscript-to-print transmission, 28
perfecting incomplete manuscripts, 74, 85–87, 92–93
print canon, 130–131, 140–146, 171–172
printed books as monuments to Chaucer, 221–224
print-to-manuscript transmission, 27, 29, 79–80, 112, 184, 222
print-to-print transmission, 28, 222
readers’ corrections in, 77–83
reliability of, 18, 23, 48, 67–68, 86, 124
role in Chaucer’s afterlife, 225–226
role in shaping language, 54
supplementing of print copies, 127–129
typography, 60, 81, 111, 168
printers, 23–25, 27, 81, 85, 221
printhouses, 32, 33, 39
printing errors, 24, 25
printing press, 21, 22, 30, 31
prints, 178, 206
Prise, Sir John, 65
Privy Council, 11, 15
Privy Seal, 194
procurare, 97, 125
Progenie leaves, 212, 213, 215
Progenie plate, 97, 219
pronouns, 81
proofreading, 24, 25
Prophecy (poem), 133, 136–137, 141, 146
Protestantism, 149, 156, 162, 165, 166
proverbial matter, 132–133, 142
psalters, 13, 27, 37
Puttenham, George
Arte of English Poesie, 46, 50, 136
Pynson, Richard, 18, 81, 111, 132, 168–169, 170
Ransom, Daniel J., 47
readers, and reading
acquisition of reading and writing skills, 78
early modern remaking of Chaucer, 4–6
influence of print on, 3
readers defined, 41–42
supplementing and ways of reading, 173
techniques of perfecting manuscripts, 39, 40, 41–42
use of books to apprehend the past, 1–2
use of printed exemplars of Chaucer’s language, 47–48
Reading Abbey Cartulary, 58
reagents, 227
reception
Canterbury Tales, 73
incunabula, 28
of Chaucer, 3–4, 5, 17–21, 40–41, 130, 176–179, 210, 223
of other Middle English authors, 41
timespan covered, 42
Recuyell (Caxton), 17, 21
red crayon, 103
red ink, 55, 108
Reformation, 10, 65, 88, 169
reiteration, 39
religion, 65–66, 162, 165, 166–167, 169–170
religious texts, 73, 163
religious truth, 66, 161
Remmert, Volker R., 213
Renaissance, 1, 8, 9, 20, 122, 132, 178
repairing and completing, 84–126
mutilated bodies and books, 122–126
mutilated manuscripts, 87–93
overview, 4, 30, 40, 84–87, 223
supplying lost leaves, 93–112
textual lacunae, 112–122
restoration, 39, 227, 228
retitling, 201
Retraction (Chaucer), 161, 163, 166–172, 175, 202, 214
The Returne from Parnassus I (anonymous play), 45–46
Reynolds, William, 89
rhyme royal, 142, 143, 147
Richard de Bury, 90
Rickert, Edith, 69, 88, 90, 97, 108, 155
Rider, John
Bibliotheca Scholastica, 30
Ringler, William, 182, 183
Riverside Chaucer, 61
Robert of Gloucester
Chronicle, 88
Robinson, P. R., 197, 200
Roet, Payne, 206
Roet, Philippa, 206
Rolle, Richard, 13, 180
Rollins, Hyder E., 153
rolls of arms, 96
Roos, Sir Richard
La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 145
round hand, 62
roundels, 27
rubrication, 22, 28, 108, 114, 169
running heads, 97, 108
Ry2 manuscript (BL, MS Royal 18 C.II), 71, 72–74, 77
Ryley, Hannah, 2
Sadler, Laurence, 10
Saham, Robert, 168–169, 170
Salisbury Cathedral, 97
Sancroft, William, 196–202, 204
‘A Saying of Dan John’, 138
Schoeffer, Peter, 26
Scots, 147, 153
scribes
Adam Scrivener, 80, 133
amanuenses, 113, 128
copying, and copyists, 15, 24, 128, 174
‘Cornhyll’, 113–114
dating manuscripts, 29
and errors, 80
Fairfax scribe, 114–115, 118
‘Lyly’, 15
page layout, 22
Parker and transcribing, 14–16
printed books as exemplars, 3, 4, 27
repairing and completing, 112–113, 114–115, 118
scribal eyeskip, 105
scribal notes, 114
Tanner manuscript, 200
scripts, 55, 62
secondhand market, 10, 34
secretary hand, 55, 62, 67, 69, 75, 97, 104, 197
The Seege of Troye, 96
Selden, John, 76
‘La semble des dames’, 192
‘The sendyng of Chawcer to Scogan’, 184
Seneca, 23–24
Thyestes, 23, 24–25
Troas, 24
sententiae, 132–133, 143
sermons, 25, 31
Serpent of Division, 190
Serres, Jean de, 35
sexual acts, 45, 46
Seymour, Frances, Duchess of Somerset, 107
Shakespeare, William
bad quartos, 122
canon, 131
and Chaucer, 8
collating and correcting, 77, 78
mutilated bodies and books, 122, 124
and paper, 225
works
First Folio, 31–32, 33, 90, 123, 225–226
Henry V, 153
Second Folio, 35
Troilus and Cressida, 153
Twelfth Night, 153
Two Noble Kinsmen, 52
shared canvas viewers, 229
Shepheardes Calender (Spenser), 49, 55
The Shepheards Pipe, 75
Sheridan, Christian, 151
Shirley, John, 179, 188
Shirley, Thomas, 16
Shrank, Cathy, 7
Sidnam, Jonathan
Paraphrase on the first three books of Troilus, 53
Sidney, Sir Philip, 74, 210, 214, 223, 225
Siege of Thebes (Lydgate), 140, 154, 190, 195
signes de renvoi, 68, 155
similitudes, 136
Simpson, James, 6, 7, 210, 221
Simpson, Julianne, 169
Skeat, Walter William, 161, 171
Skelton, John, 190
Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes, 190
Sloane, Hans, 88
Smethwicke, Francis, 33, 35
Smith, Emma, 123, 225, 228
Smith, Henry, 31
Smyth, Adam, 78
Society of Antiquaries, 16
Spanish Forger, 226, 227
Spearing, A. C., 148
Speed, John
Chaucer portrait for Speght, 19, 97, 204–208, 209, 214
Chaucer portrait reception, 211, 212–213, 215–221
The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, 207
Pepys copy of Speght, 220
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, 207
Speght, Thomas
antiquarian background, 19, 136
and Barkham, 102–103
Chaucer portrait by Speed, 19, 97, 178, 188, 206, 207–208, 209–214, 215, 219–221
Chaucer Workes (general), 5, 6–8, 9, 17, 18, 20, 44–45, 46, 47, 55–60, 100, 102, 137, 187, 213
Chaucer Workes 1598 edition, 1, 7–8, 47, 51–52, 55, 77, 80, 86, 94, 132, 133, 136, 142–143, 149, 182, 186, 187, 188, 190, 192, 206, 209–210, 212, 214, 222
Chaucer Workes 1602 edition, 1, 6, 19, 29, 44, 47, 61, 66, 76, 86, 91, 97, 102, 128, 130, 133, 149–150, 186, 191, 192, 194–195, 209, 212, 212, 215, 220, 222
Chaucer Workes 1687 reprint, 127, 128–129, 181, 209, 212
Chaucer’s archaic language, 48, 51–52, 53
Chaucer’s obscene language, 44–45, 46, 47
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 149–150
drawing of Chaucer, 219
expansion of Chaucer canon, 131, 138–140
Gentilesse placement, 138
glossary, 44, 47, 51–52, 55–60, 61, 62–63, 69, 77, 82, 178
Life of Chaucer, 214
literary authority, 176–178
marginal manicules, 133
Plowman’s Tale authenticity, 157–158, 161, 164, 165
praise of Chaucer, 136
printed books as monuments to Chaucer, 222
Prophecy placement, 137
role in canonicity of Chaucer, 181, 182, 184, 186–188, 191, 194–195, 196, 201
Ten Commandments placement, 142–143
and Troilus and Criseyde corrections, 66–68
Spenser, Edmund, 8, 49, 52, 70, 159, 210, 214, 223, 225
Daphnaïda, 159
The Faerie Queene, 66
Shepheardes Calender, 49, 55
Spirleng, Geoffrey, 119, 202
Spirleng, Thomas, 119, 202
St John’s College, Oxford, 226
St Mary’s Church, Ewelme, 207
St. Patrick’s Treatise on Purgatory, 119, 202
Stallybrass, Peter, 3, 43, 113
Stanford University, 215–217, 219, 220
stationers, 10, 18, 33, 36
Stevins, Walter, 37–38
Stow, John
antiquarian background, 15, 17, 19, 136
attribution and Chaucer canon, 182–187, 191, 192, 193, 195, 204
bridging medieval and early modern periods, 188, 209
Browne corrections, 75, 76
Chaucer Workes 1561 edition, 13, 18, 19, 137, 140, 142, 186, 187, 190, 192, 193, 202, 214, 222
and Chaucer’s portrait, 208, 213, 214, 221
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 149
editorial method, 190
expansion of Chaucer canon, 131, 137, 140, 142
Fairfax image, 184
Life of Chaucer, 51
Plowman’s Tale authenticity, 102, 158
and Speght, 19, 138, 164
Survey of London, 58
textual lacunae, 114–115, 119, 121
transcribing, 15, 193
Summit, Jennifer, 12, 65, 132
supplementing, 127–175
Chaucer’s Plowmen, 154–166
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 146–154
Chaucerian compilations, 172–175
commonplacing Chaucer, 131–146
locating Chaucer’s Retraction, 166–172
overview, 4, 30, 40, 127–131, 223
supply leaves
Browne corrections, 76
made by antiquaries, 14, 15, 16
Parker and Old English manuscripts, 26
repairing and completing, 87, 94, 97, 100, 104, 107–108, 109, 112
Surigone, Stephano, 221
Swart, Felix, 162
Syon Abbey, 21
tables of contents, 97, 102, 141, 142, 184, 194, 197, 200–201, 202, 204, 222, 223
Takamiya manuscript, 215, 219, 221
Talbot, Robert, 15
Tale of Gamelyn, 84, 100–102, 103, 126, 170–171, 175
Tanner, Thomas, 197
Tanner manuscript, 196–201
Taylor, John
The Praise of Hemp-Seed, 225
The Temple of Bras, 192
The Temple of Glass (Lydgate), 114, 133, 184, 192, 199, 201
The Ten Commandments of Love, 142–143, 146
The Testament of Cresseid (Henryson), 53, 133, 147–154, 173, 175
The Testament of Love, 156, 165
textual criticism, 76, 123
textual housekeeping, 115, 121
textual lacunae, 112–122
theatre audience, 18
Thebaid, 64
Thomas, Timothy, 103, 168, 170–172
Thomas, William, 168, 170, 171–172
Thompson, Ann, 8
Thynne, Francis
Animadversions, 19, 29, 51, 157
antiquarian background, 19
Chaucer portrait, 208, 212, 213
on father, 29, 31, 85
on Plowman’s Tale, 157
Reading Abbey Cartulary, 58
on Testament, 149
‘Vpon the picture of Chaucer’, 212
Thynne, William
and archaism, 81
Chaucer epitaph, 222
Chaucer portrait, 213, 221
Chaucer Workes (general), 86, 173, 181, 197–199
Chaucer Workes 1532 edition, 18, 54, 64–65, 85, 117–118, 132, 141–142, 147, 150, 151, 158, 159–160, 167, 171, 180, 187, 190, 191, 192, 199
Chaucer Workes 1542 edition, 18, 73, 102, 202, 215
Chaucer Workes c. 1550 edition, 145
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 85, 181
Chaucer’s House of Fame, 117–118
Chaucer’s Retraction, 167
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 149, 150, 154
collation with manuscripts, 66, 76, 77
expanding Chaucer canon, 131, 137, 140
Francis Thynne on, 29, 31, 85
Plowman’s Tale authenticity, 157, 158, 160, 166
poetic extracts from, 141, 145
and Sancroft, 197–199, 201
Speght’s 1602 edition, 6, 19, 212
Stow’s source text, 115
time, 42–43
title pages, 18, 140, 180, 181, 206, 212
titles, 190–192, 193, 197, 199, 200–202, 204, 223
tombs
Chaucer family, 206, 207, 213, 215, 219
Chaucer’s tomb, 6, 222
Toppyn, Launcelot, 10
Tottell, Richard, 24, 25
transcription, 14–16, 22, 58, 229
translations, 52, 53–54, 211, 214–215
Trapp, John, 157, 161
A Treatise on the Astrolabe (Chaucer), 37–38
Treharne, Elaine, 2, 172–173
Trevisa, John, 109
Trinity manuscript (TCC, MS R.3.15), 141–142, 143, 146, 161, 162–163, 166, 173, 215, 219
Trithemius, Johannes, 24
Troelus a Chressyd (Welsh text), 53, 154
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer)
adaptations and translations, 53
attribution, 149–150, 181
Batman manuscripts, 12, 13
Beaumont on, 132
British Library copy gaps, 121
Browne corrections, 74–75, 76
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 146–154, 173
Cook on, 149
Devonshire manuscript, 145
Gg manuscript, 93, 94
images, 61, 96
Kynaston translation, 53, 214, 221
L1 manuscript, 60–64, 66–68
Parkerian copy, 113
Returne from Parnassus pastiche, 45
Turberville, George
Epitaphes, 153
Two Noble Kinsmen, 52
typography, 60, 81, 111, 168
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 142, 160, 171
University of Toronto, 182
Urry, John
Chaucer Workes 1721 edition, 85, 167, 168, 171, 202
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 91, 100, 202
Chaucer’s Retraction, 167–168, 170, 171
collation with manuscripts, 77
on Gg manuscript, 91, 93
on imperfect manuscripts, 91
Tale of Gamelyn authenticity, 171
Ten Commandments inclusion, 142
Ussher, James, 15
value, and conservation, 227
Vaughan, Míċeál, 170
vellum, 26, 87, 105, 217
vernacular authorship, 64, 74, 99, 126, 148, 177, 179, 190, 196
Virgil, 199
The Vision of Pierce Plowman, 164
Wace
Brut, 96
Wakelin, Daniel, 78, 79, 112
Walker, Greg, 141
Wanley, Humfrey, 88
Ware, Sir James, 13
Warner, Lawrence, 163
Warner, Richard, 79
warranties of perfection, 33, 34–35, 36
washing manuscripts, 227
watercolour portraits, 215
watermarks, 111
Watson, Andrew, 13
Webster, John, 18
Weever, John
Ancient Funerall Monuments, 13
Weiskott, Eric, 137
Welsh-language texts, 53, 154
Westminster Abbey, 6, 222
Westphal, Joachim, 89
Whetstone, George
Rocke of Regard, 153
White, John, 202
White, Tom, 123
Whittaker, Richard, 34–35
Whittington, Leah, 89
Wiggins, Alison, 9, 79, 132
William de la Pole, 193
Wilson, Thomas
The Arte of Rhetoric, 50, 136
Winchester College, 11, 155–156
Windeatt, Barry, 67
wit, axiomatic, 132
Wither, George, 74
Wolfe, Matthew C., 169
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 157
women
Chaucer’s obscene language, 44–47
in love, 142, 149
morality, 145, 153
woodcuts, 23, 28, 136, 140, 206
Woolf, Daniel, 5, 20
Words to Adam (‘Chaucers words to his Scrivener’), 133, 138–140, 214
Workes (Chaucer)
1532 Thynne edition, 9, 18, 54, 64, 85, 117–118, 132, 141–142, 147, 150, 151, 158, 159–160, 167, 171, 174, 180, 187, 190, 191, 192, 199
1542 Thynne edition, 18, 73, 102, 202, 215
c. 1550 Thynne edition, 145
1561 Stow edition, 13, 19, 137, 140, 142, 186, 187, 190, 192, 193, 202, 214
1598 Speght edition, 1, 7–8, 47, 51–52, 55, 77, 80, 86, 94, 132, 133, 136, 142–143, 149, 182, 186, 187, 188, 190, 192, 206, 209–210, 212, 214, 222
1602 Speght edition, 1, 6, 19, 29, 44, 47, 61, 66, 76, 86, 91, 97, 102, 128, 130, 133, 149–150, 186, 191, 192, 194–195, 209, 212, 212, 215, 220, 222
1687 Speght reprint, 127, 128–129, 181, 209, 212
1721 Urry edition, 85, 167, 168, 171, 202
and attribution, 181–182, 192, 201
and authorship, 174–175
black letter typeface, 81
Chaucer’s Troilus and Henryson’s Cresseid, 153
as monuments to Chaucer, 144, 221–224
and Plowman’s Tale, 156
portrait by Speed, 206, 207, 211, 215, 221
Speght editions (general), 5, 6–8, 17, 20, 44–45, 46, 47, 55–60, 100, 102, 137, 187, 213
Speght glossaries, 58–60
stability and definitiveness of, 85, 146
Stow involvement, 19, 51, 102, 158
Thynne editions (general), 181, 197–199
use in repairing and completing, 103
use in supplementing, 144–145
works, body of, 199
Woudhuysen, H. R., 15, 22
writing skills, 78
Wyclif, John, 160
Wycliffites, 161, 164, 165
‘Yet of the same’ (poem), 133, 138

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