Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Chaucer, Geoffrey (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027228.html)

Other related names

• Harley, Alfred, 6th Earl of Oxford, former owner
• White, William A., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript is a fragment of the Canterbury Tales, including portions of the Reeve's Tale, the Cook's Tale, and the Man of Law's Tale. These eleven leaves along with two leaves in the John Rylands Library (English MS. 63) are all that survive of the 'Oxford' manuscript.

Notes

• Staining throughout
   

Extent

Foliation

Collation

Support

Catchwords

Layout

Decoration

Two outline drawings in bistre of the Cook and the Man of Law with two six-line initials decorated in blue, black, pink, and green on a gold background with foliate border extensions; one five-line and two three-line initials in red and blue with pen flourishing; titles in red; paragraph signs in red and blue

Script

Provenance

• These eleven leaves along with two leaves in the John Rylands Library (English MS. 63) are all that survive of the 'Oxford' manuscript; grandson of Alfred Harley, 6th Earl of Oxford (sold by Sotheby, 23 July 1896, no. 256); William A. White acquired in 1927
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• English
• Illustration
• England
• Literature -- Poetry
• Fragment

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1084/2: Canterbury tales are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1084/2: Canterbury tales. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

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Table of contents

• 1 — Canterbury Tales

Decorations

• 3 — Decorated initial G
• 4 — Drawing, Cook
• 4 — Three Sided Foliate Border
• 4 — Decorated Initial A
• 5 — Drawing, Man of Law
• 5 — Three Sided Foliate Border
• 5 — Decorated Initial O