Canterbury talesChaucer, Geoffrey, -1400[ca. 1460-1490]enmManuscript, 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 taleIn Middle English.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)