Canterbury tales

Description

Title: Canterbury tales
Alternative Title: Devonshire Chaucer
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Contributor: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Published / Created: [ca. 1440-1460]
Publication Place: England
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: In Middle English.
Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
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.
Bookplate: Chatsworth.
Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.
Provenance: 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. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 282 leaves : 377 mm x 260 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.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic): English literature
English poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of, 1790-1858 > Bookplate
Knyvett, Edmund > Ownership
L'Estrange, Hamon > Ownership
Mason, George > Ownership
Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804 > Ownership
Skarlet, Thomas > Ownership
Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641 > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
Walpole, John > Ownership

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: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Takamiya MS 24). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.