The Harleian Manuscripts :: Chaucer Canterbury Tales Essays

The Harleian Manuscripts, Ha2 and Ha3 My exploration on the Harley original copy variants 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 rarely referenced. I invested the vast majority of my examination energy in the library's fifth floor and experienced the heap of Chaucer books, especially the distributions by the Chaucer Society. I additionally scanned 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. The majority of the depictions I found on the Ha2 and Ha3, in any case, originated from the references of articles on these electronic assets and from the commentaries 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 gracefully of data on the Ha4 is that the Ha2 was for the most part used to flexibly Gg.S. or on the other hand Cambridge. So also, the Ha3 for the most part supplies Lansdowne(Koch 4). In this manner, possibly 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 renditions flexibly these original copies. This hypothesis is likewise bolstered by the way that the Harley compositions contained numerous similitudes to Shirley. I gathered from my readings that Shirley was a recorder of one of The Canterbury Tales original copies, since the Harley 7333 is in many cases mixed up to be his work(Pace 21). This presents another conceivable clarification that the Harley was joined with another original copy 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 composition and isn't consolidated in depiction 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 feature of another. The main data I discovered with respect to the Ha2 1758 is that it needs ten fols.