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Notes

1. Charles A. Owen, The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge, Eng., 1991), p. 69.
2. John M. Manly and Edith Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales (Chicago, 1940), 1:211.
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3. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, pp. 176-177.
4. M. B. Parkes and Richard Beadle, Geoffrey Chaucer: Poetical Works. A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library Gg. 4.27 (Cambridge, Eng., 1980), p. 63.
5. A. I. Doyle, "More Light on John Shirley," Medium Aevum 30 (1961), 96.
6. Cheryl Greenberg, "John Shirley and the English Book Trade," The Library 4 (1982), 375.
7. Greenberg, "John Shirley," pp. 377-78.
8. Julia Boffey and John J. Thompson, "Anthologies and Miscellanies: Production and Choice of Texts," in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, ed. Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall (Cambridge, Eng., 1989), p. 287.
9. Owen, The Manuscripts, p. 69.
10. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 214.
11. Owen, The Manuscripts, p. 69.
12. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 214.
13. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 214.
14. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 214.
15. Aage Brussendorf, The Chaucer Tradition (Copenhagen, 1925), p. 220.
16. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 214.
17. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 209.
18. Timothy A. Shonk, "A Study of the Auchinleck Manuscript: Bookmen and Bookmaking in the Early Fourteenth Century," Speculum 60 (1985), 71-91.
19. J. P. Tatlock, "The Text of the Canterbury Tales in 1400," PMLA 50 (1935), 108-9.
20. A. I. Doyle, "Book Production by the Monastic Orders in England (c. 1375-1530): Assessing the Evidence," in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. L. L. Brownrigg (Los Altos Hills, Calif., 1990), p. 2.
21. Doyle, "Book Production," p. 15.
22. A. S. G. Edwards, "Lydgate Manuscripts: Some Directions for Future Research," in Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth Century England: The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study, ed. Derek Pearsall (Cambridge, Eng., 1983), p. 17.
23. Roy Vance Ramsey, "Paleography and Scribes and Shared Training," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 8 (1986), 135-39.
24. M. B. Parkes, "A Fifteenth Century Scribe: Henry Mere," Bodleian Library Record 6 (1961), 656.
25. Parkes, "A Fifteenth Century Scribe," p. 658.
26. Phillipa Hardman, "A Medieval 'Library in Parvo,'" Medium Aevum 47 (1978), 262-64.
27. Thorlac Turville-Petre, "Some Medieval English Manuscripts in the North-East Midlands," in Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth Century England, ed. Derek Pearsall (Cambridge, Eng., 1983), pp. 136-37.
28. P. J. Lucas, "John Capgrave, O. S. A. (1393-1464), Scribe and Publisher," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographic Society 5 (1969), 1-35.
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29. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 216.
30. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 216.
31. Manly and Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, p. 210.
32. Owen, The Manuscripts, p. 70.
33. Owen, The Manuscripts, p. 70.
34. Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts (Stanford, 1996), p. 147.
35. Hanna, Pursuing History, p. 152; and A. S. G. Edwards and Derek Pearsall, "The Manuscripts of the Major English Poetic Texts," in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, ed. Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall (Cambridge, Eng., 1989), p. 263 (and n. 56).
36. Paul Strohm, "Chaucer's Audience(s): Fictional, Implied, Intended, Actual," The Chaucer Review 18 (1983), 144.
37. Strohm, "Chaucer's Fifteenth-Century Audience and the Narrowing of the 'Chaucer Tradition,'" Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982), 23.
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