Kalamazoo 2010

Writing Fame: Manuscript Chaucer Epitaphs in Renaissance Editions of Chaucer's Collected Works

        The last two photographs below are reproduced by permission of The John Work Garrett Library, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University.  Clicking on these reduced images will take you to a full-size  JPEG image.

1)  1994: Joseph A. Dane's epitaph discovery at the foot of the title page's printers ornament in a Kele 1550 edition at The Henry Huntington Library

2)  1994: Alexandra Gillespie's epitaph discovery on the colophon page of a 1561 Stow edition at the Harry T. Ransome Center Library (U. of Texas at Austin)

3)  2008: My first discovery of an epitaph MS below the colophon in a John Stowe 1561 Edition (JHU Catalog PO1850 1561a) [the second copy, from the Collection of the Tudor and Stuart Club]

4)  My second epitaph MS at the end of Chaucer's works in a John Stowe 1561 Edition (JHU Catalog PO1850 1561) [the first copy, Collection of John Work Garrett]