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The Canterbury tales.
Author
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Uniform title
Canterbury tales
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Format
Book
Language
English
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin
Published/Created
[London, England] ; [between 1400 and 1500]
Description
1 volume (folios v, 215, iii) : parchment, paper ; 292 x 202 mm
Details
Subject(s)
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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England
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Canterbury
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Poetry
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English poetry
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Middle English, 1100-1500
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Manuscripts, English (Middle)
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Bookseller
Witten, Laurence C.
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Related name
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 100
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Library of Congress genre
Poetry
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Manuscripts
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England
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15th century
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Notes
Script: Anglicana, with some Secretary features; presumably written by the so-called Beryn Scribe.
Decoration: Rubrication for incipits and explicits. Rubricated running titles are preceded by blue paraphs; 3-line blue initials; beginnings of tales have 3-line blue initials with red penwork; running titles.
Binding note
England, 15th century. Sewn on five alum-tawed double thongs laced into cushioned quarter-sawn oak boards (10 mm thick) through five channels.
Provenance
Princeton MS. 100 is one of approximately 84 extant manuscripts of The Canterbury tales. The manuscript was in the library of the Tollemache family of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, from the 16th century, if not earlier. The Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript from the antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten (1926-1995), of New Haven, Connecticut, in February 1963, chiefly with funds provided by Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), Class of 1930, and Christian A. Zabriskie (d. 1970), New York City, with additional support from Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Kenneth H. Rockey, Class of 1916, and Ernest C. Savage, all of whom were members of the Friends of the Princeton University Library.
Source acquisition
Gift of Robert H. Taylor.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 317-321.
Cite as
Princeton MS. 100, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
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