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Article: A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, II: The Canterbury Tales.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 1998
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M. C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, II: The Canterbury Tales (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997). x + 270 pp. ISBN 1-85928-057-9. 52.50 [pounds sterling].
This is the second and last volume of Mr Seymour's attempt to describe Chaucer's manuscripts. It is devoted largely to the fifty-six more or less complete copies of the Canterbury Tales. Each description includes brief accounts of materials, binding, collation, contents, decoration, scribe, and history, together with details of manuscript rubrics.
It is not clear to what extent Seymour sees his work as an advance on the earlier work of W. J. McCormick, The Manuscripts of the Canterbury ...