Princeton University, Princeton MS. 100
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2210
- Shelfmark:
- Princeton MS. 100
- Title:
- The Canterbury tales
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Place:
- London, England
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1500
- Language:
- Middle English
- Material:
- parchment, paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 215 leaves : parchment, paper ; 293 x 202 (195-225 x 120-140) mm bound to 295 x 223 mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Tollemache family
- Note:
- Incipit: “First on þis wal was peyntid a forest, In wich ther dwellith nethir man nor best, With knotty and knarry brokyn’ treis old, And stobbis sharp and hidous to be hold...”
Explicit: “But certis these lordshippis doith vrong þat be nymyth her bondfolk thingis þat they nevir gave hem. Augustinus de Ciuitate dei libro”
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Third preliminary leaf contains a list of contents. Folio 2v contains a table giving times of sunrise and sunset for 20 days from 1 January to 5 June, and pen trials including the opening line of the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Running titles.
Collation: Parchment and paper ; fol. ii (modern paper) + i (19th-century tipped-in) + i (parchment) + i (contemporary paper flyleaf) + 215 (paper and parchment) + iii (modern paper); quires 1-22 and 28-29 are paper, 23-27 are parchment ; partial previous foliation crossed out ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 34-39 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written by two scribes in Anglicana with some Secretary features, the second scribe is believed to be the Beryn Scribe. To the manuscript’s five parchment quires were added paper portions in the period 1450-1460 with much cutting and editing of the text. Watermarks on later end papers only.
Decoration: Rubrication for incipits and explicits. Rubricated running titles are preceded by blue paraphs; 3-line blue initials; beginnings of tales have 3-line blue initials with red penwork; running titles.
In the library of the Tollemache family of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, from the 16th century, if not earlier. Sold from their collection by Sotheby's where it was purchased by the bookseller Laurence C. Witten in February 1963. Purchased by Princeton University Library, chiefly with funds provided by Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), Class of 1930, and Christian A. Zabriskie (d. 1970), New York... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99111943163506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ec86e028-21c9-4ae9-9d09-cf6c9045f10c/manifest
- Holding Institution:
