Detail View: Medieval Collection: Miller's Tale

Image Number: 
JRL17092482
Reference Number: 
English MS 63
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Image Title: 
Miller's Tale
Parent Work Title: 
Canterbury Tales
Creator: 
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Creator Role: 
Author
Display Creator: 
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date Created: 
15th century [early]
Page: 
2v
Image Sequence Number: 
002v
Description: 
Miller's Tale: a bawdy story of an adulterous wife. The tale begins by introducing a carpenter called John, his young wife Alison, and their lodger Nicholas. The text ends imperfectly at 'ffor it is Goddis hest leve and dere'.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Language: 
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Subject: 
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject: 
Poetry, Medieval
Subject: 
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject: 
English literature
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
People Covered: 
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Item Height: 
272 mm
Item Width: 
195 mm
Related Resources: 
Eleven other leaves of the same manuscript (IMEV 4019/62b) belong to the Rosenbach Company, New York, 1084/2.
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
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), p. 403. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.16.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Vine, G., in 'Bulletin of the John Rylands Library' xvii (1933), p.333-47 with facsimile of all four pages.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Manly, J.M., and Rickert, E., 'The Text of the Canterbury Tales', 1940, i. p.396-8.
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2017-09-25
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2009-08
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