COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0904945dc
Reference Number:
English MS 113
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Prologue to the Nun's Priest'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:
147v
Image Sequence Number:
147v
Description:
Nun's Priest's tale: the Knight interrupts the Monk's tales of tragedy finding them unbearable to listen to. The host agrees with the Knight and asks the Monk to change his theme. The Monk refuses and so the host calls upon the Nun's Priest to continue with his own tale. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
Poetry, 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:
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
Provenance:
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
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):
2008-11-07
Multi Page Number:
1480
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-03
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Prologue to the Nun's Priest's tale
