Specimens of all the accessible unprinted manuscripts of the Canterbury tales.
Contributors: Zupitza, Julius, 1844-1895, ed.; Koch, John, 1850-1934.; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Series: Chaucer Society. [Publications] First series. 81, 85-86, 90-94, 97
Publisher: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
Published: 1892
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Manuscripts.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. -- Criticism, Textual.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry.; Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Genres: Poetry.
Notes: Parts I-IV have separate title-pages and paging; pts. V and VIII, and VI and VII are paged continuously; pt. IX was issued with a t.-p. combining pts. VI, VII, and VIII, with IX (the introduction) which has roman paging only.  Part VIII, however, belongs with pt. V.
Parts IV and V are numbered First series, LXXXVIII and XCII on verso of t.-p., but XC and XCI on cover, evidently correctly.
pt. IX: Introduction by Prof. John Koch to [the specimens of the Clerk's tale and head-link] 1902.
Table of contents: title: The Doctor-Pardoner link, and Pardoner's prologue and tale, ed. by Julius Zupitza: pt. I: Seven mss. (The Dd. group) 1892. pt. II: Ten mss. (several small groups) 1892. pt. III: Six mss. (Corpus group) [1893] pt. IV: Seventeen mss. with an introduction by John Koch. 1897. pt. V, put forth by F. J. Furnivall: A six-text, -three mss., and three prints from mss. ... with an introduction by Prof. John Koch, a supplement, the prologue and tale from the paper ms. of the College of Physicians, London, and a reproduction of Mr. Paul Hardy's pen-and-ink drawing of "The yard of the Tabard inn" ... 1898. The Clerk's tale and head-link (from mss. that haven't the Pardoner's tale)  Put forth by F. J. Furnivall ... pt. VI: Six mss. [1899] pt. VII: put forth by F. J. Furnivall: Two mss. [1900] pt. VIII: Second supplement to the Six-text Pardoner's prologue and tale ... put forth by F. J. Furnivall ... with an introduction by Prof. John Koch. [1901]