Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Add MS 25718
- Record Id:
- 032-002030059
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030059
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0001a9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142971551.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 25718
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
ff. 1r-88v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, fragmentary, including portions of ten of the Tales, arranged as follows:
ff. 1r-24v: The Knight's Tale, comprising A, ll. 1394-1524, 1584-1706, 1829-1950 and 2011-3108.
ff. 24v-30v: The Miller's Prologue and Tale, comprising A, ll. 3109-3486.
ff. 31r-40v: The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, comprising B1, ll. 31-517, 702-822.
ff. 41r-47v: The Summoner's Tale, comprising D, 1891-2294.
ff. 48r-52r: The Physician's Tale.
ff. 52v-63v: The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
ff. 64r-79v: The Clerk of Oxford's Prologue and Tale, comprising E, ll. 1-1013.
ff. 80r-82r: The Shipman's Tale, comprising B2, ll. 303-452.
ff. 82r-83v: The Prioress's Tale, comprising B2, ll. 453-473 (ll. 474-524 are partially present, but f. 83 that contains those lines is torn from the upper fore-edge diagonally to the spine-edge, with the lower part of the folio now lost).
ff. 84r-88v: The Tale of Melibee, comprising B2, ll. 1256-1564 (with missing leaves taking ll. 1311-1316; 1371-1538).
Decoration:
Blue initials with red (foliate) penwork. Red and blue paraphs. Running titles in brown ink, preceded by a rubricated paraph. Decorated explicits framed in red ink with foliate decoration and faces (ff. 32v, 47v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002030059", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 25718: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030059
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030059
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100142971551.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Parchment.
Condition: Parchment repairs throughout the volume.
Dimensions: Approximately 265 x 180 mm (written space: 190 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 88 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after ff. 30 and 38 + 2 unfoliated paper leaves after ff. 40, 79, and 83 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Originally in quires of 8; many folios are now missing and some fragments are isolated.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown morocco with gilt borders; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Inscribed 'Dorothe Borothe' (f. 1r).
Sale at Puttick's, 21 June 1864, lot 675 (see note on f. [iv] recto]). Purchased by the British Museum from Messrs. Boone, 9 July 1864.
- Publications:
-
A Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 227.
Eleanor P. Hammond, Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual (New York: Peter Smith, 1933), p. 173.
Sir William McCormick and Janet E. Heseltine, The Manuscripts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: A Critical Description of Their Contents (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933), pp. 9-12.
Wilma Anderson Kirby-Miller, 'Scribal Dialects in the C and D Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales', PhD Dissertation (University of Chicago, 1938), pp. 63-64.
The Text of the Canterbury Tales: Studied on the Basis of All Known Manuscripts , ed. by John M. Manly and Edith Rickert, 8 vols (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940), I, pp. 34-40.
Charles A. Owen Jr., The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 49-50.
Michael C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts. Volume II, The Canterbury Tales (Aldershot and Brookfield: Scolar Press, 1997), pp. 98-103.
Daniel Wakelin, 'Instructing Readers in Fifteenth-Century Poetic Manuscripts', Huntington Library Quarterly, 73:3 (2010), 433–52 (p. 447, n. 71).
'London, British Library MS Additional 25718', in Late Medieval English Scribes: https://www.medievalscribes.com [Accessed 18 October 2021].
'Manuscript: Ad2', in A Digital Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales: https://www.mossercatalogue.net/record.php?recID=Ad2 [Accessed 18 October 2021]
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)