Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text
Alternative Title:
Devonshire Chaucer
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., and Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
