COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0903562dc
Reference Number:
English MS 113
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Prologue to the Wife of Bath's tale
Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales and other works
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Brode, John
Creator Role:
Scribe
Display Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date Created:
15th century [late]
Page:
57r
Image Sequence Number:
057r
Description:
Wife of Bath's Tale: in the lengthy prologue to her tale the Wife of Bath describes her experiences of marriage, having been married five times. The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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:
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
Provenance:
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
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:
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:
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.
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):
2008-11-06
Multi Page Number:
575
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 Wife of Bath's tale
