Detail View: Medieval Collection: Prologue to the Merchant's tale
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Image Number:
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JRL0903622dc
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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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Prologue to the Merchant's tale
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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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87r
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Image Sequence Number:
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087r
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Description:
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Merchant's tale: the Merchant compares his own wife unfavourably to that of the faithful Griselda in the Clerk's tale. The host invites the Merchant to elaborate but the Merchant retorts that although he will tell a story about marriage, he will not relate the story of his own. 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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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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English literature
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Subject:
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English literature--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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Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
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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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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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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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2008-11-06
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Multi Page Number:
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875
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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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