242 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



PHILOLOGY. 



Flcigfel, Ewald, Stanford University, California. Grant No. 244. 

 Preparation of a lexicon to the works of Chancer. (For first report 

 see Year Book No. 3, p. 96.) $7,500. 



About two-thirds of the preparatory work may be regarded as 

 completed. The work itself is divided into six groups. 



(1) Revision and completion of the collection of Chaucer' s works. — 

 Dr. Wildhagen is revising the slips for the Canterbury Tales, as far 

 as this remains to be done ; The Summoner's Tale, The Franklin's 

 Tale, and The Doctor's Tale. Dr. Fliigel is carefully revising this 

 work and that of his Stanford assistants. He has corrected Dr. 

 Anderson's work on The Parson's Tale, and Herr Moll is revising the 

 slips for Troilus and Cresside, Book II. The slips for the first book 

 were revised by Prof. Einenkel and Dr. Fliigel during the summer. 

 Herr Bernhoff is writing the slips for the English Romaunt of the 

 Rose. Miss Mason, of Berkeley, is finishing the slips for the Legend 

 of Good Women. 



(2) Alphabetizing of the revised slips. — All the revised slips which 

 had been assorted into a ' ' rough ' ' alphabet by Miss Kimball at 

 Palo Alto have been assorted into an exact alphabet by Mr. Ponitz 

 and Dr. Wildhagen. The letter " T " is now in its final shape. 



(3) Copying for the collateral apparatus. — A few Middle English 

 texts and a good many Old French texts were " marked," and the 

 words underlined are being copied by Mr. Tanneberger. He will 

 put these slips, revised, into an exact alphabet. 



(4) Copying of Old French texts {unpublished) of authors k?iown to 

 Chaucer and i?ifliiencing his work and his vocabulary. — M. Francois 

 Bruel, of the Ecole des Chartes, is furnishing monthly what appear 

 to be excellent manuscripts of G. de Maehault's Balades, Lays, and 

 other poems. He will collate and copy later in the year the Old 

 French Boece and Melibee. 



(5) Work at certain articles for the Dictionary in its final shape 

 has begun and Professor Einenkel of Halle is putting the slips for 

 the prepositions and conjunctions in order, putting them into 

 bundles, and writing definitions for the rubrics, etc. 



(6) The work of verification of the accuracy of the priyited text 

 and the supplementary collation of unprinted texts has not yet been 

 begun methodically in the English libraries because new passages 

 are coming up every day which will make a verification necessary. 



