Canterbury talesChaucer, Geoffrey, -1400[ca. 1440-1460]enmManuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer textIn Middle English.Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines.Script: English bookhand.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.Bookplate: Chatsworth.Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.