COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0903654dc
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:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Brode, John
Creator Role:
Scribe
Display Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date Created:
15th century [late]
Page:
103r
Image Sequence Number:
103r
Description:
Squire's tale: a tale of romance. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Transcription:
That euer more myn honour and renoun Were saved, bothe prive and apert þat is to say þat after his desert I yafe hym all myn hert & al my þought God wote and he: þat oþ(er)weyes nought, And toke his hert. in chaungyng of myn for ay But soth is seid, a gon(e) sith, many aday A trew wight and a thef thynk not oon And when he sawe, þe þyng so ferre gon(e) That I had g(ra)unted hym fully my loue In suche a gise as I haue seid aboue As yeuen hym my trew hert as Fre As he swore, þ(at) he yaf, his hert, to me Anon þis Tigre Full of doublenes Fel on his knees, w(ith) so deuout humbles With so hie reu(er)ens, and bi his chere So like a gentle lover of manere So rauysshed: as it semed for ioy þ(at) neu(er) Jason, or Parys of Troy Jason Certes ne noon oþer man Syn Lameth was þ(at) aldirfirst, began To louen two, as wretyn folk biforn Ne neu(er) sith þe furst man was born Ne couth man bi XX thousand part Countrefeet þe Sopheines of his art Ne were worþi, vndo his galoche þer doublenes, or feynyng shold ap(ro)che Ne so couth þank a wight as he dede me His man(er) was an heuen, for to see To eny woman, were she neu(er) so wise So peynted he, and kempt at point devise As wele his wordis, as his counten(au)nce And I so loued hym, for his obeisaunce And for the trewth I demed in his hert þ(at) if so were þ(at) any thyng hym smert All were it neu(er) so lite, and I it wist Me þought I felt deth, myn herte twist. And shortly þis þing so ferforth is went þat my wille was his willes Instrument, This is to seyn, my will obeied his will In all þing as ferre as reso(u)n fill Kepyng þe bound(es): of my worship(pe) eu(er)e Ne neuer had I thyng so leef. ne leu(er)e As hym god woot, ne neu(er)e shall no moo þis last lenger then(n) so yeer or twoo þat I supposed of hym nought but good But finally thus att, the laste it stood þ(at) fortune wold, þat he moste twynne Out of that place: which þ(at) I was Inne Wher me was woo, that is noo question I can not make of it discripcion For so thynge dare I telle boldly I know what is þe peyne of deth þ(er)by Such harme I felt, for he myght not bileve So on a day of me he took his leve So sorowfull eke, that I wende vereily That he had felt as moche harme as I.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
English literature
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:
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
Provenance:
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
Provenance:
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
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:
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:
1035
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
