RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE HUMANITIES 307
University of Chicago
Chaucer Project
There has been appropriated to the University
of Chicago the sum of $11,000 for completion of
the Chaucer project. This project, under the
direction of Professor John M. Manly, was
assisted under the former program in the humanities
in continuance of help given through a
grant of the General Education Board in 1927.
The method of work has attracted international
attention, and the published results are
awaited with interest by scholars working in all
fields of medieval study. The
initial step in the
work was to secure photostats of nearly sixty
manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The
succeeding task involved the search of private
papers and official records at the Public Record
Office and elsewhere in England for facts regarding
Chaucer's life, the history of his times,
and the relationships of the existing manuscripts.
The total program calls for a general investigation
of various phases of English culture in
Chaucer's time and during the following century.
It is understood that the present grant will
enable the project to be brought to the stage of
publication.
University of London. School of Oriental Studies
African Linguistics
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work of the School of Oriental Studies, Univer-
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