The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
TitleThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
ReferenceMS388
Date
c.1440 - 1450
Creator Geoffrey (1340?-1400) Chaucer
Production date 1440 - 1450
Scope and ContentBy Geoffrey Chaucer, (1340?-1400)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale were edited from this manuscript by Profs. F.J. Furnivall and John Koch and published by the Chaucer Society as a supplement to their "Specimens of all the Accessible Unprinted manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales." (London, 1898).
NOTE BY BINDER Condition when received:-
Binding: Dark limp (goat?) vellum cut flush with book and stuck to folio vellum leaf at beginning and single vellum leaf at end.
Book made up of 19 large sections of 364 leaves of thick paper, sewn with very thick thread to 5 double alumed thongs. Sewing broken, slips cut off.
Vellum guard at centre of each section. Paper in good condition, though dirty, stained and brittle at edges. Numerous tears, outside leaves of sections damaged at spine. Some worm holes at beginning and end: edges of leaves very dirty and number of paper mends to edges of leaves.
Evidence of a leaf missing between 290 - 291 and 5 leaves at end.
Present make up of sections:- Folio vellum leaf (1) 20. 1 - 20 (2) 20. 21 - 40 (3) 20. 41 - 60 (4) 20. 61 - 80 (5) 20. 81 - 100 (6) 20. 101 - 120 (7) 20. 121 - 140 (8) 20. 141 - 160 (9) 20. 161 - 179 (10) 20. 180 - 199 (11) 20. 200 - 219 (12) 16. 220 - 235 (13) 20. 236 - 255 (14) 16. 256 - 271 (15) 19. 272 - 290 (16) 20. 291 - 309 (17) 20. 310 - 329 (18) 20. 330 - 349 (19) 13. 350 - 362 Single vellum leaf.
Book taken down, vellum guards sewn to vellum leaves and leaves flattened.
Paper leaves mended at spine and edges with handmade paper.
Book sewn with linen thread on 5 double hemp cords to old marking up, cords laced into new boards of old English oak.
Alumed morocco joints, sides of old cover bound in, thread headbands, spine lined with native niger morocco, covered with white alumed morocco. Gold lettering, blind tooling, silver clasps with alumed morocco crossovers. Douglas Cockerell & Son, January 1951
See N.R. Ker. Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. Oxford, 1969. p. 126 no. 388
Condition: 1 - in old box
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale were edited from this manuscript by Profs. F.J. Furnivall and John Koch and published by the Chaucer Society as a supplement to their "Specimens of all the Accessible Unprinted manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales." (London, 1898).
NOTE BY BINDER Condition when received:-
Binding: Dark limp (goat?) vellum cut flush with book and stuck to folio vellum leaf at beginning and single vellum leaf at end.
Book made up of 19 large sections of 364 leaves of thick paper, sewn with very thick thread to 5 double alumed thongs. Sewing broken, slips cut off.
Vellum guard at centre of each section. Paper in good condition, though dirty, stained and brittle at edges. Numerous tears, outside leaves of sections damaged at spine. Some worm holes at beginning and end: edges of leaves very dirty and number of paper mends to edges of leaves.
Evidence of a leaf missing between 290 - 291 and 5 leaves at end.
Present make up of sections:- Folio vellum leaf (1) 20. 1 - 20 (2) 20. 21 - 40 (3) 20. 41 - 60 (4) 20. 61 - 80 (5) 20. 81 - 100 (6) 20. 101 - 120 (7) 20. 121 - 140 (8) 20. 141 - 160 (9) 20. 161 - 179 (10) 20. 180 - 199 (11) 20. 200 - 219 (12) 16. 220 - 235 (13) 20. 236 - 255 (14) 16. 256 - 271 (15) 19. 272 - 290 (16) 20. 291 - 309 (17) 20. 310 - 329 (18) 20. 330 - 349 (19) 13. 350 - 362 Single vellum leaf.
Book taken down, vellum guards sewn to vellum leaves and leaves flattened.
Paper leaves mended at spine and edges with handmade paper.
Book sewn with linen thread on 5 double hemp cords to old marking up, cords laced into new boards of old English oak.
Alumed morocco joints, sides of old cover bound in, thread headbands, spine lined with native niger morocco, covered with white alumed morocco. Gold lettering, blind tooling, silver clasps with alumed morocco crossovers. Douglas Cockerell & Son, January 1951
See N.R. Ker. Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. Oxford, 1969. p. 126 no. 388
Condition: 1 - in old box
Extent364 ff.
LanguageEnglish
Archival historyPart of Dorchester collection
SubjectManuscripts
Levelfile