Canterbury tales

Description

Title: Canterbury tales
Alternative Title: Sion College Chaucer
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Published / Created: [ca. 1460-1490]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, 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 tale
Description: In 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)
Provenance: Formerly owned by Henry R. Grissil. Formerly owned by William Cooke. Formerly owned by Sir Maurice Berkeley. Ex libris Sion College Library. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 79 leaves : 215 mm x 160 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.
English poetry
Subject (Name): Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
English literature
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Cooke, William > Ownership
FitzHardinge, Maurice Berkeley, Viscount, 1628?-1690 > Ownership
Grissil, Henry R. > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
Sion College. Library > Stamp

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Citation: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Takamiya MS 22). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.