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COPYRIGHT 1993 University of Illinois Press
Charles Owen's book provides the most detailed examination of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales since the Manly-Rickert edition of 1940. Owen has carefully studied nearly all of the manuscripts and compared his observations with the intricate and detailed analyses not only of Manly-Rickert but also of Germaine Dempster and the many other scholars who have commented on Manly-Rickert over the past half-century. His twenty-eight corrections of and disagreements with Manly-Rickert are entirely codicological, dealing with arrangements of the text, placement of quires and leaves, shifts in hands and inks, numbers of lines per page, and the like. He accepts without demur the Manly-Rickert collations and classifications of the text.
George Kane's criticism of the Manly-Rickert procedures in arriving at the classifications of the manuscripts (in Editing Chaucer, ed. Paul Ruggiers [1984], pp. 207-30) is not...
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