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This article presents a textual analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, from the 1807 edition of The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The anonymous editor has attempted to present an edition of the text that is an improvement on all previous editions, in terms of quality and the selection of texts. The extent to which this has been achieved is difficult to determine, however. The editor is strongly influenced by Thomas Tyrwhitt's edition of The Canterbury Tales, but the care and intellect behind Tyrwhitt's edition is not found to the same degree in the 1807 edition., Introduction The following article is a textual analysis of some of the most striking features to have emerged thus far from an analysis of the 1807 edition of The Book [...]

The author provides the known history of what is commonly known as the Findern manuscript, rebound in the mid-19th century. The manuscript contains fragments from Chaucer, Hoccleve, Gower and Lydgate as well as various textual notes, although several significant details about it remain undetermined.

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