Canterbury tales.

Description

Title: Canterbury tales.
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Published / Created: [ca. 1460-1490]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: 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.
Description: Annotated on f. 78 with the names "William Cooke" and "Morris Barckley."
Binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt.
Byname: Sion College Chaucer.
Decoration: six initials in red.
From the collections of Henry R. Grissil; William Cooke; Sir Maurice Berkeley. Ex libris Sion College Library. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Layout: single columns of 24 lines.
Library stamp: Sion College.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent: 79 l. : parchment ; 215 x 160 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Subject (Name): Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.
Sion College. Library Stamp.
Subject (Topic): English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
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 Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Takamiya MS 22.