Geoffrey Chaucer: Revision history

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19 November 2025

  • curprev 18:1818:18, 19 November 2025 imported>Farabay 86,300 bytes +86,300 Removed the unsupported claim that his handwriting has been identified. The article underpinning the piece in The Guardian cited here has been debunked as based on a misunderstanding of the C 81 record class in the National Archives. The claim rests on the idea that a slit in the record carried Chaucer's seal, but C 81 warrants never carry seals, while they all have the slit for filing (spiking) purposes. See http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/730765, p. 803