15th-century illuminated manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
Ellesmere Manuscript in Huntington Library
The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales.
The EllesmereChaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury...
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been...
on the Ellesmere order). Victorians frequently used the nine "Groups", which was the order used by Walter William Skeat whose edition Chaucer: Complete...
Geoffrey Chaucer. In 2004, Linne Mooney and Simon Horobin published an essay arguing that the scribe of the EllesmereChaucer and Hengwrt Chaucer manuscripts...
rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in the fifteenth century and into...
degree of prominence in attempts to reconstruct Chaucer's text, displacing the previously prominent Ellesmere and Harley MS. 7334. Recent scholarship has...
and illustrated English literary texts: from Ruthwell Cross to the EllesmereChaucer, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004, p. 37, ISBN 0-7546-3178-8, ISBN 978-0-7546-3178-1...
(2004) Medieval Images, Icons, and Chaucer Illustrated English Literary Texts: From Ruthwell Cross to the EllesmereChaucer, Ashgate Publishing. Holt, Dennis...
followed in the Riverside Chaucer (3rd ed.). (To sort the table by Tyrwhitt's order, use the Ellesmere column.) CS (Chaucer Society's Groups) — Using...
The Manciple's Prologue and Tale Kappiya, a similar role in Buddhism Chaucer, Geoffrey (1994). The Canterbury Tales. New York: The Modern Library, 1994...
and illustrated English literary texts: from Ruthwell Cross to the EllesmereChaucer, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004, ISBN 0-7546-3178-8, google books...
and Illustrated English Literary Texts: From Ruthwell Cross to the EllesmereChaucer, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004, ISBN 0-7546-3178-8, ISBN 978-0-7546-3178-1...
British Library, Add MS 35286 (Chaucer, Canterbury Tales) San Marino, California, Huntington Library, EL 26 C 9 (EllesmereChaucer) Aberdeen, Aberdeen University...
of Ellesmere to Henry Huntington in 1917 and now "forms the core of the Elizabethan and early Stuart collection at the Huntington Library. Ellesmere Chaucer...
Bowden that examines historical backgrounds to characters in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales within the context of its General Prologue. Bloomfield...
figure in 15th-century Middle English literature, significant for promoting Chaucer as "the father of English literature", and as a poet in his own right....
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