The application of thought to textual criticism in all modes - With apologies to A. E. Houseman

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Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 163-170

  Hanna, Ralph ^a  

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1. The first maxim I know only at second hand; see for example, its ascription to Bentley in Eleanor Prescott Hammond, A Chaucer Handbook (New York, 1908) 146. Cf. the differing appreciations of William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral (London, 1935) 149-191, and E. J. Kennedy, The Classical Text (Berkeley CA, 1974) 71-74 , 100-101. For Housman, see D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae (London, 1905) xii-xiii.
2. The first maxim I know only at second hand; see for example, its ascription to Bentley in Eleanor Prescott Hammond, A Chaucer Handbook (New York, 1908) 146. Cf. the differing appreciations of William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral (London, 1935) 149-191, and E. J. Kennedy, The Classical Text (Berkeley CA, 1974) 71-74 , 100-101. For Housman, see D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae (London, 1905) xii-xiii.
3. The first maxim I know only at second hand; see for example, its ascription to Bentley in Eleanor Prescott Hammond, A Chaucer Handbook (New York, 1908) 146. Cf. the differing appreciations of William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral (London, 1935) 149-191, and E. J. Kennedy, The Classical Text (Berkeley CA, 1974) 71-74 , 100-101. For Housman, see D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae (London, 1905) xii-xiii.
4. The first maxim I know only at second hand; see for example, its ascription to Bentley in Eleanor Prescott Hammond, A Chaucer Handbook (New York, 1908) 146. Cf. the differing appreciations of William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral (London, 1935) 149-191, and E. J. Kennedy, The Classical Text (Berkeley CA, 1974) 71-74 , 100-101. For Housman, see D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae (London, 1905) xii-xiii.
5. Peter Robinson, ed., The Wife of Bath's Prologue, CD-ROM (Cambridge, 1996). (I hasten to say that Cambridge University Press's outrageous pricing precludes my owning it.)
6. I refer, of course, to John M. Manly and Edith Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, 8 vols. (Chicago, 1940), which is the source of all my sigla for manuscripts of the poem.
7. Following the various demonstrations of N. F. Blake, most fully The Textual Tradition of the Canterbury Tales (London, 1985).
8. 'Canterbury Tales D 117: A Critical Edition', originally in Speculum 40 (1965), reprinted in Speaking of Chaucer (New York, 1970) 119-130.
9. 'Canterbury Tales D 117: A Critical Edition', originally in Speculum 40 (1965), reprinted in Speaking of Chaucer (New York, 1970) 119-130.
10. Patrologia Latina 23:260.
11. 'A Stemmatic Analysis of the Fifteenth-Century Witnesses to The Wife of Bath's Prologue', The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers 2 (1997) 69-132 at 76.
12. 4 at 'The Parson's Tale' 869 'secundum Ieronimum contra Iouinianum'. For the 'Melibee', see Albert E. Hartung, 'A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's Melibeus Considered in its Relation to the French Source' (unpublished Lehigh Ph.D. dissertation, 1957), described Dissertation Abstracts 17 (1957) 2250-60. Hartung unfortunately construed these readings as evidence for a Chaucerian revision of the work.
13. 4 at 'The Parson's Tale' 869 'secundum Ieronimum contra Iouinianum'. For the 'Melibee', see Albert E. Hartung, 'A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's Melibeus Considered in its Relation to the French Source' (unpublished Lehigh Ph.D. dissertation, 1957), described Dissertation Abstracts 17 (1957) 2250-60. Hartung unfortunately construed these readings as evidence for a Chaucerian revision of the work.
14. 4 at 'The Parson's Tale' 869 'secundum Ieronimum contra Iouinianum'. For the 'Melibee', see Albert E. Hartung, 'A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's Melibeus Considered in its Relation to the French Source' (unpublished Lehigh Ph.D. dissertation, 1957), described Dissertation Abstracts 17 (1957) 2250-60. Hartung unfortunately construed these readings as evidence for a Chaucerian revision of the work.
15. Robinson at 88.
16. See my discussion, 'The Hengwrt Manuscript and the Canon of The Canterbury Tales', reprinted from English Manuscript Studies 1 (1989) in Pursuing History (Stanford 1996) 140-155.
17. See my discussion, 'The Hengwrt Manuscript and the Canon of The Canterbury Tales', reprinted from English Manuscript Studies 1 (1989) in Pursuing History (Stanford 1996) 140-155.
18. Scribe D was identified and most of his work described by A. I. Doyle and M. B. Parkes, 'The Production of Copies of the Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis in the Early Fifteenth Century', in Parkes and Andrew G. Watson, eds., Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker (London, 1978) 163-203. On this version of the text, see my ' (The) Editing (of) the Ellesmere Text', in Martin M. Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds., The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino CA, 1995) 225-243, especially 229-230, 240 ng.
19. Scribe D was identified and most of his work described by A. I. Doyle and M. B. Parkes, 'The Production of Copies of the Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis in the Early Fifteenth Century', in Parkes and Andrew G. Watson, eds., Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker (London, 1978) 163-203. On this version of the text, see my ' (The) Editing (of) the Ellesmere Text', in Martin M. Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds., The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino CA, 1995) 225-243, especially 229-230, 240 ng.
20. Or what I have elsewhere described as a koiné. The same features interestingly occur in the transmission of one of Chaucer's Latin sources here, Walter Map's 'Dissuasio Valerii'; see Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler, using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt, Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves, Volume 1: The Primary Texts (Athens GA, 1997) 103-107.
21. Or what I have elsewhere described as a koiné. The same features interestingly occur in the transmission of one of Chaucer's Latin sources here, Walter Map's 'Dissuasio Valerii'; see Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler, using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt, Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves, Volume 1: The Primary Texts (Athens GA, 1997) 103-107.
22. These are D 44a-f, 575-584, 605-612, 619-626, and 717-720. See for example, Beverly Kennedy, 'Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants', Occasional Papers 2 (1997) 23-39 at 29-32, views sensationally released to and reported by the British tabloid press (cf. Robinson 124-126). More sensible is Elizabeth Solopova, 'The Problem of Authorial Variants in the Wife of Bath's Prologue', ibid. 133-142 at 133-137.
23. These are D 44a-f, 575-584, 605-612, 619-626, and 717-720. See for example, Beverly Kennedy, 'Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants', Occasional Papers 2 (1997) 23-39 at 29-32, views sensationally released to and reported by the British tabloid press (cf. Robinson 124-126). More sensible is Elizabeth Solopova, 'The Problem of Authorial Variants in the Wife of Bath's Prologue', ibid. 133-142 at 133-137.
24. See especially Robinson 86-88.
25. A fact publicly known for sixty years and more; see Manly and Rickert 1:316.
26. 3 Pw]. 125 the] pese Bw; ze Ln [thise in 9 witnesses, ye in 13]. nat] om. Ld.