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Description: By Geoffrey Chaucer, whose name appears on [3A]5r. An edition of: Canterbury tales. Title from opening words of text, [A]2r. First words of text, [A]3r: Whanne they were wonne and in the grete see ....
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1477
Call number: 61667
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey (-1400)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Bookplate on front flyleaf: Ex libris Robert Hoe. Purchased by George D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington from the Hoe sale, 1911.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 27 cm (folio)
Associated people: Caxton, William, (approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,); Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,); Cuzin, Francisque, (1836-1890,); Mercier, Emile, (1855-1910,)
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The Ellesmere Chaucer is a beautiful and elaborately decorated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Created between 1400 and 1410, it contains what is believed to be a portrait of Chaucer as well as miniature paintings of twenty-two of the fictional pilgrims who tell stories in order to enliven the journey from London to Canterbury. The manuscript is in excellent condition partly because it was undisturbed for about three centuries in the library of Sir Thomas Egerton (later Baron Ellesmere) and his family. See Digital Scriptorium for full description.
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