• Canterbury tales
  • The Canterbury tales

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Language:
  • English
  • English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • Latin
Creator:
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Call number:
  • Princeton MS. 100
Extent:
  • 1 volume (folios v, 215, iii) : parchment, paper ; 292 x 202 mm
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Manuscripts
  • Poetry
Description:
  • 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.
Publisher:
  • [London, England] ; [between 1400 and 1500]
Subject:
  • Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages—England—Canterbury—Poetry
  • English poetry—Middle English, 1100-1500
  • Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Manuscripts—England—15th century
Title sort:
  • Canterbury tales.
Spatial:
  • England
  • New Jersey
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Robert H. Taylor.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 317-321.
Author:
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Created:
  • 1400-01-01T00:00:00Z/1500-12-31T23:59:59Z
Date:
  • 1400-1500
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/2227mt79t
Location:
  • HSVM Princeton MS. 100
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.
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 100
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
  • Canterbury Tales
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.
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Bookseller:
  • Witten, Laurence C
Uniform title:
  • Canterbury tales