Canterbury tales.

Creator:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Published/Created:

[England],
[ca. 1425-1450]

Physical Description:

175 l. : parchment ; 332 x 250 mm.

Notes:

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.
Decoration: blue and red penwork initials.
Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco.
Byname: Delamere Chaucer.

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.

Topics:

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 poetry, English (Middle)

Topics:

Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.
Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley,--Baron,--1870-1931--Ownership.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
Gower, John,--1325?-1408.

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre:

Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Takamiya MS 32

Orbis Record:

11726079

Orbis Barcode:

39002091549007

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

14715820

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 Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Takamiya MS 32.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

14705200

PID:

digcoll:4017206