The Harleian Manuscripts :: Chaucer Canterbury Tales Essays

The Harleian Manuscripts, Ha2 and Ha3 My examination on the Harley composition forms of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Ha2 1758 and Ha3 7333 from the British Library prompted the finding of little data with the exception of what was to be found in the commentaries of articles and books depicting the Ha4 7334. The little data I found may prompt reasons why the original copies, especially the Ha3 7333, are hard to research and why they are only from time to time referenced. I invested the vast majority of my exploration energy in the library's fifth floor and experienced the pile of Chaucer books, especially the distributions by the Chaucer Society. I additionally looked the web for articles and research relating to Chaucer and the numerous original copy variants of The Canterbury Tales, including the library's electronic assets, Infotrac and JSTOR. A large portion of the portrayals I found on the Ha2 and Ha3, be that as it may, originated from the commentaries of articles on these electronic assets and from the references of the books I discovered talking about the literary history of The Canterbury Tales. One potential clarification with respect to why the Ha2 and Ha3 are once in a while found or referenced in contrast with the mind-boggling flexibly of data on the Ha4 is that the Ha2 was for the most part used to gracefully Gg.S. or then again Cambridge. Likewise, the Ha3 for the most part supplies Lansdowne(Koch 4). Along these lines, perhaps what is to be found of these compositions, the Ha2 and Ha3, is the consolidating of these original copies with the Cambridge and Lansdowne original copies, since it is portrayed that the Harley adaptations gracefully these compositions. This hypothesis is likewise bolstered by the way that the Harley compositions contained numerous similitudes to Shirley. I surmised from my readings that Shirley was a recorder of one of The Canterbury Tales original copies, since the Harley 7333 is regularly mixed up to be his work(Pace 21). This presents another conceivable clarification that the Harley was joined with another composition and was accordingly totally lost. This is just a chance however, in light of the fact that the Harley is still alluded to, regardless of how sometimes, as its own original copy and isn't joined in portrayal with the Cambridge or Landsdowne. In arrangements of the accessible The Canterbury Tales original copies, gave by different books, the Harley is still alluded to as its own composition and isn't spoken to as a component of another. The main data I discovered with respect to the Ha2 1758 is that it needs ten fols.