The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Kingis Quair A Facsimile of Bodleian Library Oxford MS Arch Selden B Bodleian Library MS Arch Selden B is a manuscript of great significance for both the English and Scottish late medieval literary traditions The last of the great Chaucerian manuscript anthologies
Bodleian Library MS Arch Selden B 24 is a manuscript of great significance for both the English and Scottish late medieval literary traditions The last of the great Chaucerian manuscript anthologies, it contains texts of Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and The Parliament of Fowlsalongside shorter works and various pieces of Chauceriana, and offers substBodleian Library MS Arch Selden B 24 is a manuscript of great significance for both the English and Scottish late medieval literary traditions The last of the great Chaucerian manuscript anthologies, it contains texts of Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and The Parliament of Fowlsalongside shorter works and various pieces of Chauceriana, and offers substantial evidence of the Scottish reception of Chaucer it is also among the earliest Scottish literary anthologies, with the unique surviving copies of The Kingis Quair and The Quare of Jealousy The complex history of the manuscript s production and decoration and sheds an interesting light on some of the processes by which anthologies were compiled Access to MS Arch Selden B 24 has for some time been restricted because of its fragile condition, a factor which has made its systematic study difficult over, the production of a facsimile has brought to light featuresof its construction and history not previously apparent These, together with questions of literary and historical context, are addressed in the Introduction to the facsimile the Appendix, supplied by Dr BRUCE BARKER BENFIELDof the Bodleian Library, provides technical notes and a collation chart This new facsimile makes the manuscript generally available to a scholarly audience for the first time.Dr JULIA BOFFEY teaches in the Department of English, Queen Mary and Westfield College Professor A.S.G EDWARDS teaches in the Department of English at the University of Victoria.
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Kingis Quair': A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 : Geoffrey Chaucer James I of Scotland
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Kingis Quair': A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 : Geoffrey Chaucer James I of Scotland
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Geoffrey Chaucer c 1343 October 25, 1400 was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
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