COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0903474dc
Reference Number:
English MS 113
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
General Prologue
Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales and other works
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales
Creator:
Brode, John
Creator Role:
Scribe
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Creator Role:
Author
Display Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date Created:
15th century [late]
Page:
13r
Image Sequence Number:
013r
Description:
General prologue: the host of the pilgrimage suggests to the rest that a storytelling game will help pass the time on the journey to and from Canterbury, and suggests each member tell two stories on the way there and two on the way back. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Item Height:
300 mm
Item Width:
210 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
Provenance:
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
Provenance:
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
Provenance:
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.24.
References:
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 420-21. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References:
Manley, John M., and Rickert, Edith, 'The text of the Canterbury Tales studied on the basis of all known manuscripts. Volume 1, Descriptions of the manuscripts' (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1940), pp. 349-55.
Bibliographic Citation:
Griffiths, J., New light on the provenance of a copy of the Canterbury Tales, John Rylands Library, MS Eng. 113, 'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', vol. 77 no.2 (1995), pp25-30.
Cost:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £180.00 in May 1910.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2008-11-06
Multi Page Number:
135
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-03
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
General Prologue
