Canterbury tales.

Description

Title: Canterbury tales.
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Contributor: Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.
Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish,--Duke of,--1790-1858--Bookplate.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Life of St. Margaret.
Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
Published / Created: [ca. 1440-1460]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text.
Description: Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.
Bookplate: Chatsworth.
Byname: Devonshire Chaucer.
Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials.
From the collections of Sir Edmund Knyvett; John Walpole; Thomas Skarlet; Sir Henry Spelman; Hamon L'Estrange; George Mason; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe; William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, and his descendants. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
In Middle English.
Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent: ff. iv + 282 + iv : parchment ; 377 x 260 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Material: parchment
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.
Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish,--Duke of,--1790-1858--Bookplate.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Life of St. Margaret.
Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic): English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: 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 G