Canterbury tales

Description

Title: Canterbury tales
Alternative Title: Delamere Chaucer
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Contributor: Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
Published / Created: [ca. 1425-1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the text of Chaucer's Canterbury tales; selections from the Confessio amantis of John Gower; and the anonymous poems Speculum misericordis, The adulterous Falmouth squire, Partenope of Blois, The vision of Tundale, and The gast of Guy
Description: In Middle English.
Layout: double columns of 39-44 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: blue and red penwork initials.
Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Hugh Cholmondeley, Baron Delamere. Formerly owned by Boies Penrose. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 175 leaves : 332 mm x 250 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
Subject (Topic): English literature
English poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Gower, John, 1325?-1408
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley, Baron, 1870-1931 > Ownership
Penrose, Boies, 1902-1976 > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Takamiya MS 32). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.