The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 26 C 9

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9601

Shelfmark:

mssEL 26 C 9

Title:

Canterbury tales; manuscript

Author:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

Geoffrey Chaucer WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Pinkhurst, Adam, active 1410

Adam Pinkhurst WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1410.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

enm

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + iv + 232 + iv + ii : parchment, bound ; 284 x 394 mm

Former Owner(s):

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, -1649

John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater WIKIDATA

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 1623-1686

John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater WIKIDATA

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 1646-1701

John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater WIKIDATA

Bridgewater, Scroop Egerton, Duke of, 1681-1745

Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater WIKIDATA

Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater WIKIDATA

Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?-1617

Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley WIKIDATA

Ellesmere, Francis Charles Granville Egerton, Earl of, 1847-1914

Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere WIKIDATA

Oxford, John de Vere, Earl of, 1408-1462

John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford WIKIDATA

Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833

George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland WIKIDATA

Note:

This manuscript is on permanent display in the Library's exhibit "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times."
Binding: Bound, white alum-tawed calfskin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke,
The poem on ff. ii verso-iv (art. 1) appears to have been written to honor the de Vere family, earls of Oxford; its inclusion in this manuscript may suggest an early association with John de Vere (1408-61/62), 12th Earl of Oxford, who after his father's death in 1417 became ward of the Duke of Exeter and in 1426 of the Duke of Bedford; both men were kinsmen of Chaucer's son, Thomas. One of the...

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

English poetry--Middle English

Pilgrims and pilgrimages

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

English literature--Middle English

Tales, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1825265

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:2838/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens