Online Medieval Sources Bibliography

, Canterbury Tales (Early Manuscripts at Oxford University website. Oxford University,2000). Read this source online

Text name(s): Canterbury Tales

Number of pages of primary source text: 532

Author(s):

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Dates: 1400 - 1425

Archival Reference: Corpus Christi College MS. 198

Original Language(s):

English - Middle English

Translation:

Original language included

Geopolitical Region(s):

England

Record Type(s):

Literature - Verse

Subject Heading(s):

Literature - Other
Art
Travel / Pilgrimage

Apparatus:

Facsimile

Comments:

This is a manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, probably written in London in the early 15th century. The decoration is unfinished, but the scribe’s instructors to the illustrator remain. Extremely high resolution images of every page of the manuscript can be found on the Early Manuscripts at Oxford University website.

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Cataloger:MK

Online Medieval Sources Bibliography

An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages

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