• Canterbury tales
• The Canterbury tales

Extent:

• 1 volume (folios v, 215, iii) : parchment, paper ; 292 x 202 mm

Date:

• 1400-1500

Language:

• English
• English, Middle (1100-1500)
• Latin

Author:

• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

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.

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.

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.

Source acquisition:

• Gift of Robert H. Taylor.

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 100

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 317-321.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99111943163506421