Canterbury tales.

Description

Title: Canterbury tales.
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Contributor: Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.
Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley,--Baron,--1870-1931--Ownership.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
Gower, John,--1325?-1408.
Published / Created: [ca. 1425-1450]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the text of Chaucer's Canterbury tales; selections from the Confessio amantis of John Gower; and the anonymous poems Speculum misericordis, The adulterous Falmouth squire, Partenope of Blois, The vision of Tundale, and The gast of Guy.
Description: Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco.
Byname: Delamere Chaucer.
Decoration: blue and red penwork initials.
Ex libris Hugh Cholmondeley, Baron Delamere; Boies Penrose. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Layout: double columns of 39-44 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent: 175 l. : parchment ; 332 x 250 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.
Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley,--Baron,--1870-1931--Ownership.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
Gower, John,--1325?-1408.
Subject (Topic): English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Narrative po

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De G