Detail View: Medieval Collection: General Prologue
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Image Number:
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JRL0903463dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 113
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Previous Accession Number:
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R24403
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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General Prologue
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Parent Work Title:
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Canterbury Tales and other works
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Canterbury Tales
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Creator:
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Brode, John
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Display Creator:
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Date Created:
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15th century [late]
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Page:
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7v
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Image Sequence Number:
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007v
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Description:
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General prologue: a second nun and her three priests, a monk and a friar are introduced. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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English literature
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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1200 - 1500 CE
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Places Covered:
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England
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People Covered:
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Item Height:
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300 mm
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Item Width:
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210 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
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Provenance:
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Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
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Provenance:
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Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
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Provenance:
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Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.24.
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References:
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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.
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References:
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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.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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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.
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Cost:
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Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £180.00 in May 1910.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2008-11-07
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Multi Page Number:
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80
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-03
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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