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Medieval Collection
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Image Number:
JRL0903474dc
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JRL0903474dc
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Reference Number:
English MS 113
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English MS 113
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Previous Accession Number:
R24403
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
General Prologue
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General Prologue
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Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales and other works
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Canterbury Tales and other works
Parent Work Title
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales
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Canterbury Tales
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false
Creator:
Brode, John
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Brode, John
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false
Creator Role:
Scribe
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Scribe
Creator Role
false
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Creator Role:
Author
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Author
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Display Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Date Created:
15th century [late]
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15th century [late]
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Page:
13r
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Page
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Image Sequence Number:
013r
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013r
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Description:
General prologue: the host of the pilgrimage suggests to the rest that a storytelling game will help pass the time on the journey to and from Canterbury, and suggests each member tell two stories on the way there and two on the way back. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
description
General prologue: the host of the pilgrimage suggests to the rest that a storytelling game will help pass the time on the journey to and from Canterbury, and suggests each member tell two stories on the way there and two on the way back. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Description
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Language Code:
enm-GB
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enm-GB
Language Code
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Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
English literature
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English literature
Subject
false
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
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Poetry, Medieval
Subject
false
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
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Literature, Medieval
Subject
false
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject
false
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
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false
Sub-Category:
Codex
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Codex
Sub-Category
false
Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
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false
Medium:
Ink
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Ink
Medium
false
Support:
Paper
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Paper
Support
false
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
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1200 - 1500 CE
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false
Places Covered:
England
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England
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false
People Covered:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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false
Item Height:
300 mm
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300 mm
Item Height
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Item Width:
210 mm
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210 mm
Item Width
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Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Current Repository
false
Provenance:
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
provenance
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
provenance
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
provenance
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
provenance
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
Provenance
false
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Image
false
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work
false
Access Rights:
access_rights
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a>
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References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.24.
references
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.24.
References
false
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
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
false
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
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
false
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.
bibliography
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.
Bibliographic Citation
false
Cost:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £180.00 in May 1910.
cost
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £180.00 in May 1910.
Cost
false
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2008-11-06
Multi Page Number:
135
multi_page_number
135
Multi Page Number
false
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-03
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
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Medieval
Collection Code
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