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- Record Id:
- 040-002088761
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088757
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x00012a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142961067.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35286
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order:
ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396).
ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfect, wanting eight leaves after f. 12 (A, ll. 1269-1898).
ff. 28r-29r: The Miller's Prologue.
ff. 29r-37v: The Miller's Tale.
ff. 37v-43r: The Reeve's Prologue and Tale, imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 37 (A, ll. 3859-3933).
ff. 43r-51v: The Introduction to the Man of Law and his Tale, imperfect, wanting eight leaves after f. 43 (B1, ll. 68-623).
ff. 51v-62v: The Wife of Bath's Prologue.
ff. 62v-68r: The Wife of Bath's Tale.
f. 68r-v: The Friar's Prologue.
ff. 68v-73v: The Friar's Tale.
ff. 73v-74r: The Summoner's Prologue.
ff. 74r-81v: The Summoner's Tale.
ff. 82r-83v: The Second Nun's Prologue.
ff. 83v-89v: The Second Nun's Tale.
f. 90r-v: The Clerk of Oxford's Prologue.
ff. 90v-107v: The Clerk of Oxford's Tale.
f. 107v-122r: The Merchant's Prologue and Tale, imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 107 (E, ll. 1236-1308).
f. 122r-v: The Merchant's Endlink.
ff. 122v-131v: The Squire's Tale.
f. 132r: The Squire-Franklin Link.
ff. 132v-144v: The Franklin's Tale.
ff. 144v-148r: The Physician's Tale.
f. 148r-v: The Physician-Pardoner Link.
ff. 148v-150v: The Pardoner's Prologue.
ff. 150v-157v: The Pardoner's Tale.
ff. 157v-162v: The Shipman's Tale.
ff. 163r-165v: The Prioress's Prologue and Tale, imperfect, omitting the words of the Host and all but the last stanza of the Prologue (B2, ll. 453-480).
f. 166r: The Prologue to Sir Thopas.
ff. 166r-168r: The Tale of Sir Thopas.
f. 168r-v: The Thopas-Melibee Link.
ff. 168v-188r: The Tale of Melibee.
ff. 188r-189v: The Monk's Prologue.
ff. 189v-200v: The Monk's Tale.
ff. 200v-201r: The Nun's Priest's Prologue.
ff. 201r-209v: The Nun's Priest's Tale.
ff. 209v-211r: The Manciple's Prologue.
ff. 211r-214v: The Manciple's Tale.
ff. 214v-215r: The Cook's Prologue.
f. 215r-v: The Cook's Tale.
ff. 215v-218r: The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue, omitting the first two lines of the text.
ff. 218r-228r: The Canon's Yeoman's Tale.
ff. 228r-229r: The Parson's Prologue.
ff. 229r-238v: The Parson's Tale, imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 231, two leaves after f. 237 and several leaves at the end.
Decoration:
Large initials in gold, with purple and blue fills and white highlights, and sprays with gold trefoils and green dots, at the beginning of each Tale (ff. 8r, 29r, 67v, 68v, 74r, 82r, 122v, 132v, 144v, 150v, 157v, 163r, 168v, 189v, 201r, 215r, 218r, 229r, 235v). Initials in blue with red (foliate) pen-flourishing. Alternating blue and red paraph marks. Headings in red. An added drawing of a human head with leaves emerging from its mouth (f. 131v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088757
040-002088761 - Is part of:
- Add MS 35283-35298 : Belonged to the collection of MSS. formed by Bertram Ashburnham, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (ob. 1878), being comprised in…
Add MS 35286 : Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales - Hierarchy:
- 032-002088757[0004]/040-002088761
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 35283-35298
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100142961067.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 220 mm (written space: 230 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 238 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Collation: Originally quires of 8, but wanting many leaves and at least two whole quires.
Catchwords. Quire signatures.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Blue morocco leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Inscribed: 'henry Derbye de derbye glouer' (f. 21v).
Inscribed: 'Mr Whythall' (f. 204r).
Inscribed: 'Rycherd Normenton of Ashburne' (f. 166r).
Inscribed: 'George Heygynbothom of marpull' with a two-line salutation and an added drawing of a human head with leaves coming out of its mouth (f. 131v).
William Agarde, 16th century: his name inscribed, 'gulihelmus Agardus', with the date 'Ao 1571' (f. 92r), 'wyllyam agard' with a two-line salutation (f. 131v); the partially-trimmed name 'Wyllm' appears on f. 99v.
Charles Agarde (b. c. 1618, d. 1680): his name inscribed, 'Charles Agarde' (f. 28v).
Rowlande Ridgely (d. 1628): his name inscribed, 'Rolande Rudgley' (ff. 62r, 161r, and 214r); inscribed, 'Roland Rudgle is the Right honero B ship[…]' (f. 152r).
Benjamin Heywood Bright (b. 1787, d. 1845), antiquary: his sale, 1844, lot 54; sold to the English bookseller Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham: Ashburnham Appendix CXXV; his sale, Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 73; purchased by the book collector Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), who subsequently sold it to the British Museum.
- Former External References:
- Ashburnham Appendix CXXV
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), pp. 233-34.
Eleanor P. Hammond, Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual (New York: Peter Smith, 1933), pp. 173-74.
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. 13-19.
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. 41-47, 612-13.
Seth Lerer, 'An Unrecorded Proverb from British Library MS Additional 35286', Notes and Queries, 32 (1985), 305-06.
Charles A. Owen Jr., The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 45-47.
Simon Horobin, 'Additional 35286 and the Order of the Canterbury Tales', Chaucer Review, 31 (1997), 272-78.
Simon Horobin, 'A Transcription and Study of British Library MS Additional 35286 of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales', PhD Dissertation (University of Sheffield, 1997).
Michael C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts. Volume II, The Canterbury Tales (Aldershot and Brookfield: Scolar Press, 1997), pp. 100-03.
'London, British Library MS Additional 25718', in Late Medieval English Scribes: https://www.medievalscribes.com/ [accessed 18 October 2021].
'Manuscript: Ad3', in A Digital Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales: https://www.mossercatalogue.net/record.php?recID=Ad3 [accessed 18 October 2021].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)