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Medieval Collection
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Image Number:
JRL0903654dc
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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:
Squire's tale
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Squire's tale
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Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales and other works
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Canterbury Tales and other works
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales
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Canterbury Tales
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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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Creator:
Brode, John
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Brode, John
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Creator Role:
Scribe
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Scribe
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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:
103r
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Image Sequence Number:
103r
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Description:
Squire's tale: a tale of romance. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
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Squire's tale: a tale of romance. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
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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.
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.
Transcription
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Language Code:
enm-GB
language
enm-GB
Language Code
false
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
subject
Poetry, Medieval
Subject
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Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
subject
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject
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Subject:
Literature, Medieval
subject
Literature, Medieval
Subject
false
Subject:
English literature
subject
English literature
Subject
false
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
subject
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject
false
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
category_of_material
Manuscripts
Category of Material
false
Sub-Category:
Codex
sub_category
Codex
Sub-Category
false
Technique Used:
Handwriting
technique_used
Handwriting
Technique Used
false
Medium:
Ink
medium
Ink
Medium
false
Support:
Paper
support
Paper
Support
false
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
time_period_covered
1200 - 1500 CE
Time Period Covered
false
Places Covered:
England
places_covered
England
Places Covered
false
People Covered:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
People Covered
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.
current_repository
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Current Repository
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
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:
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
provenance
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
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:
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<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>
Access Rights
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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
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2008-11-06
Multi Page Number:
1035
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1035
Multi Page Number
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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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