COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0903648dc
Reference Number:
English MS 113
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Squire's tale
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:
100r
Image Sequence Number:
100r
Description:
Squire's tale: a tale of romance. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Transcription:
Squyer Gret was þe prees þat swarmeth to and fro To gauren on this hors that stondith soo For it so hie was and so brode and longe So wele p(ro)porsyoned for to be stronge Right(e) as it were a stede of Lumbardie, Therwith(e) so horslly, & so quyk att eye As it a gentel poleis courser were For certes fro(m) his taile vnto his ere Nature ne art, ne couth hym not amend In no degre as all, the peple wend But euer more, here most, wonder was How þat it couth goo, and was of bras It was a feirie as the peple semed Dyu(er)se Folk dyuersly haue demed As many hedes, as manye wittes been. þei mermerid as doth a swarm(e) of been. And maden skeles after here fantasies Rehersyng of this olde Poetries And seiden it was like the Pegease The hors þat had wynges for to fle, Or els it was the Grekes hors Synon, That brouth Troy to Destruccio(u)n As men mowe in þise olde gestes rede Myn hert q(uo)d oon is eu(er)more in drede I trow some men of armes ben here Inne That shapen hem þis Cite for to wynne It were right good þat al such þing were knowe A nother rowned to his Felowe lowe And seide he lieth, for it is rather like An apparence made by some magike As Jogelours pleyen at thise grete Of sondry doutes þus þei iangle & trete And lewde Peple demen Comunly Of thyng(es) þat be made more subtelly þen þei conne in her(e) lewdnes co(m)p(re)hende They demon gladly to the badder ende And some of hem wondred on þe myrrour That born(e) was up vnto the maister Tour How men myght in it suche thyng(es) se A noþ(er) annswerd & seide it myght wele be Naturally bi composisyons Of angelis and of sligh reflecio(u)ns And saide that in Rome was such oon They speken of Alceon and Vituleon Of Aristotle that wrote in here lyves Of queynt myrrous and of p(er)spectyues As knowen þei þat haue here bokis herd And other Folk haue wondred on þe swerd That wolde p(er)cen þrough out eu(er)y thyng And fellen in speche of Theolophus þe kyng And of Achilles For his queynte spere For he couth w(i)t(h) it both hele and dere Right in such gise, as men inow w(i)t(h) þe swerd Of which right nowe, ye haue yo(ur)self herd They speken of sundry hardyngis of metall And speken of medecyns þer with all And how and when it shold I herded be,
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
English literature--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:
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
Provenance:
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
Provenance:
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
Provenance:
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
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:
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.
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.
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:
1005
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-03
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Squire's tale
