COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0903475dc
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:
13v
Image Sequence Number:
013v
Description:
General prologue: the pilgrims agree to the game and that the host will serve as the judge of the stories, the prize being that the best storyteller will have his supper paid for by the rest of the group. The pilgrims pick lots as the pligrimage begins and it is determined that the Knight shall begin the storytelling. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
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:
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
Provenance:
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
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):
2008-11-07
Multi Page Number:
140
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
