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The phylogeny of The Canterbury Tales

Adrian C. Barbrook, Christopher J. Howe, Norman Blake et al., 1998. Nature.

Applies software built for evolutionary trees to the surviving manuscripts of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue in order to reconstruct their copying history.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1038/29667Checked against the original0

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The inductive-methods survey cites it as a model for treating pages as related by descent and building their family tree.

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Barbrook, A. C., Howe, C. J., Blake, N., & Robinson, P. (1998). The phylogeny of The Canterbury Tales. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/29667
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