Abbreviations
- BL
London, British Library
- Bodl.
Oxford, Bodleian Library
- CCCC
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
- CCCO
Oxford, Corpus Christi College
- ChR
The Chaucer Review
- CUL
Cambridge University Library
- Cx1
[Canterbury tales] (Westminster: William Caxton, c. 1476; STC 5082)
- Cx2
[Canterbury tales] (Westminster: William Caxton, c. 1483; STC 5083)
- DIMEV
Digital Index of Middle English Verse, ed. Linne R. Mooney, Daniel W. Mosser, Elizabeth Solopova, Deborah Thorpe, David Hill Radcliffe, and Len Hatfield, based on the Index of Middle English Verse (1943) and its Supplement (1965), www.dimev.net
- DUL
Durham University Library
- EEBO
Early English Books Online, quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/
- Glasgow
University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections
- HEHL
California, Henry E. Huntington Library
- HLQ
Huntington Library Quarterly
- IMEV
Index of Middle English Verse, ed. by Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins (New York: Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press, 1943), and its Supplement, ed. by Robbins and John L. Cutler (1965)
- JEBS
The Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History
- NIMEV
New Index of Middle English Verse, ed. by Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (London: British Library, 2005)
- ODNB
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, www.oxforddnb.com
- OED
Oxford English Dictionary, www.oed.com
- PMLA
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
- RES
The Review of English Studies
- SAC
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
- STC
A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, A Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640, 2nd ed., rev. & enl., begun by W. A. Jackson & F. S. Ferguson, compl. by Katharine F. Pantzer, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976)
- TCC
Cambridge, Trinity College
- TCD
Dublin, Trinity College
- TCT
John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales: Studied on the Basis of All Known Manuscripts, 8 vols. (University of Chicago Press, 1940) (References are to volume 1 unless otherwise indicated)
- USTC
Universal Short Title Catalogue, https://ustc.ac.uk
- Wing
Donald Wing, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641–1700, 2nd ed., rev. and enl. (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1982–8)
Transcriptions: When particular words are under discussion, any contractions and elisions have been supplied in italics, e.g. ‘comparisoun’. When orthography is incidental to the discussion, as in the case of the titles of pre-modern works, spelling and capitalisation have been regularised in line with general scholarly conventions and where it would aid reading.