COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0903650dc
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:
101r
Image Sequence Number:
101r
Description:
Squire's tale: a tale of romance. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Transcription:
Ne was þer suche a wondryng as was þo But fynally the kyng askith the knyght The vertue of this courser and þe myght And prayde hym to tell his gou(er)n(au)nce This hors anon, gan for to trippe & daunce Whan þat þe knight, leyde hond vpon his reyne And seid sere ther is no more to seyne But when you lust, to riden eny where Ye mote trayle apyn. stant in his ere Which I schal tell you, betwen vs twoo Ye mote nempne hym: to what place alsoo Or to what contre, þat you list to ride And whan(n) ye come þ(er) as you list to abide Byd hym distende. and trille a noþ(er) pyn For þ(er)yn lieth þe effect of alle the gyn And he woll doun distend & doon youre will And in þat place he woll abiden still þough all þe wordle þe contr(a)re had swore He shall not þens be draw ne be bore Or yif you list, to bidde hym thens goon, Trille þis pyn, and he woll vanyssh anoon Out of þe sight, of eu(er)y maner wight And come agayn be it day or nyght Whan þat you list to clepen hym agayn In suche agise as I schal to you sayn Bitwene you and me: and þat ful sone Bidde whan you list, þ(er)is no more to done Enfourmed when þe kyng was of þe knyght And hath conceyued in his witte a right The man(er) and þe fourme of all þis thyng Full glad and blithe, þis noble lusty kyng Repaireth to his rebell as biforn The bridell is into þe coure born And kepte among his jewels leef and dere þe hors vanysshed I noot in which man(er)e Out of here sight, ye gete no more of me But thus I lete in luste and iolite þis Cambustan, his lordes festyng Till well nygh þe day be gan to spryng Exp(licit) p(ri)ma pars The norisshe of digestion the slepe Gan on hem wynke, & bade hem take kepe Þat mochel drynke, and labo(ur) wol hane reste And w(ith) a galpyng mouth, hem all he kest And seid þat it was tyme to lie a doun For blood was in his domynacioun Cherisseth blood, nature Frend q(uo)d he þei thankyd hym galpyng bi .ij. bi .iij. And eu(er)y wight gan draw hym to his rest As slepe hym bade, þei toke it for þe best Here dremes shal not be tolde for me Full were here hedes of fumosite þat causith dreme, of þ(e) which þ(er) is no charge þei slepte till it was pryme large The moste part but it were Canacee,
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:
1015
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
