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Canterbury tales
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Title
Canterbury tales.
Created
[England], [ca. 1460-1490]
Physical Description
79 l. : parchment ; 215 x 160 mm.
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Annotated on f. 78 with the names "William Cooke" and "Morris Barckley."
Layout: single columns of 24 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: six initials in red.
Library stamp: Sion College.
Binding: twenty-first-century conservation binding.
Earlier binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt (stored in box 2)
Byname: Sion College Chaucer.
In Middle English.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Henry R. Grissil. Formerly owned by William Cooke. Formerly owned by Sir Maurice Berkeley. Ex libris Sion College Library. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
Restricted material. May not be seen without the permission of the appropriate curator.
Summary
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing four of the Canterbury tales: the Clerk's tale; the Wife of Bath's tale; the Friar's tale; and the Summoner's tale.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2013
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Takamiya MS 22). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Takamiya MS 22). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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