- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440-1460]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 24
- Image Count:
- 588
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400., Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish,--Duke of,--1790-1858--Bookplate., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Life of St. Margaret., and Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canterbury tales.
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