ABSTRACT
[A Note to Index II: Index II comprises a “reverse” index of all the biblical allusions noted in Index I. Listed first are all of the “general references” to the Bible, Holy Writ, the Gospel, Old Testament or “olde lawe,” etc., which were identified in Index I by a “G .” Listed next, by biblical chapter and verse and opposite the abbreviated titles of the works and line-numbers in Chaucer where they occur, or purportedly occur, are all the remaining allusions in Index I. Line references to the Legend of Good Women Prologue are to the “F” Version, unless marked “G.” All references to a specific biblical book or to the author of a specific book (e.g., “Ecclesiaste,” “Solomon,” “Job,” “Paul,” etc.) are placed at the head of the listing for that book and identified, as in Index I, by a “g” Chaucer’s erroneous references to specific authors or books are listed with a “g” under the erroneous biblical work when that work is remote from the one Chaucer cites (e.g., ParsT 134, attributed by Chaucer to Job but actually from Proverbs, is listed under Job), or—more often—under the heading of the work from which Chaucer apparently thought he was quoting (thus Mel 1003, 1159-60, and 1161 and ParsT 854, all attributed by Chaucer to Solomon but actually from Ecclesiasticus, by Jesus the son of Sirach, are listed under Proverbs, to which Chaucer refers repeatedly in both Melibee and the Parson’s Tale). A list of the references in Index I to extra-canonical sources follows the entries for The Apocalypse of St. John. Passages in Chaucer that were related in Index I to more than one biblical verse (e.g., to parallel passages in two or three of the Gospels) are listed more than once.
