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Medieval Collection
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Image Number:
JRL0903561dc
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JRL0903561dc
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Reference Number:
English MS 113
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English MS 113
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Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Prologue to the Wife of Bath's tale
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Prologue to the Wife of Bath's tale
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Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales and other works
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Canterbury Tales and other works
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
Canterbury Tales
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Canterbury Tales
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Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Creator Role:
Author
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Author
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Creator:
Brode, John
creator
Brode, John
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Creator Role:
Scribe
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Scribe
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Display Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Date Created:
15th century [late]
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15th century [late]
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Page:
56v
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56v
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Image Sequence Number:
056v
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056v
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Description:
Wife of Bath's Tale: in the lengthy prologue to her tale the Wife of Bath describes her experiences of marriage, having been married five times . The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
description
Wife of Bath's Tale: in the lengthy prologue to her tale the Wife of Bath describes her experiences of marriage, having been married five times . The script is a current anglicana of a rather legal sort.
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Language Code:
enm-GB
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enm-GB
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Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
English literature
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English literature
Subject
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Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
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Poetry, Medieval
Subject
false
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
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Literature, Medieval
Subject
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Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject
false
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
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false
Sub-Category:
Codex
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Codex
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false
Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
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false
Medium:
Ink
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Ink
Medium
false
Support:
Paper
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Paper
Support
false
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
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1200 - 1500 CE
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false
Places Covered:
England
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England
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false
People Covered:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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false
Item Height:
300 mm
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300 mm
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Item Width:
210 mm
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210 mm
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Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Current Repository
false
Provenance:
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
provenance
Pearce, Samuel Winter, Reverend, of Shaugh and Sampford Spinney in Devon.
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
provenance
Hodson, Lawrence W., of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
provenance
Woolcombe, Mr., of Pitton
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
provenance
Hull, John, d. 1549. A customs officer of Exeter and Dartmouth.
Provenance
false
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Image
false
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work
false
Access Rights:
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<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a>
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References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.24.
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.24.
References
false
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), pp. 420-21. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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), pp. 420-21. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References
false
References:
Manley, John M., and Rickert, Edith, 'The text of the Canterbury Tales studied on the basis of all known manuscripts. Volume 1, Descriptions of the manuscripts' (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1940), pp. 349-55.
references
Manley, John M., and Rickert, Edith, 'The text of the Canterbury Tales studied on the basis of all known manuscripts. Volume 1, Descriptions of the manuscripts' (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1940), pp. 349-55.
References
false
Bibliographic Citation:
Griffiths, J., New light on the provenance of a copy of the Canterbury Tales, John Rylands Library, MS Eng. 113, 'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', vol. 77 no.2 (1995), pp25-30.
bibliography
Griffiths, J., New light on the provenance of a copy of the Canterbury Tales, John Rylands Library, MS Eng. 113, 'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', vol. 77 no.2 (1995), pp25-30.
Bibliographic Citation
false
Cost:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £180.00 in May 1910.
cost
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £180.00 in May 1910.
Cost
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2008-11-07
Multi Page Number:
570
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570
Multi Page Number
false
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-03
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
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Medieval
Collection Code
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