Manuscript Description USA, Philadelphia, PA, Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1084/1 | |
MS Appellation: | Ph3 (Manly and Rickert); olim Phillipps 8137 |
Title: | Canterbury Tales |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Canterbury Tales |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1425-1450 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Dialect: | Scribe 2 : Herefords |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | i-vii (paper flyleaves) + 199 |
Pagination: | Pencil foliation in the bottom margin at the right edge. |
Quiring: | 1(5 ii, vii, viii missing), 2(8), 3(7 vi mssing), 4-5(8), 6(7 viii missing), 7(i missing but conjugate misbound as i), 8(8), 9(7 viii missing), 10-24(8), 25(7 vii missing), 26(8) |
Signatures: | Eighteenth century signatures put in when manuscript was re(mis)bound. |
Catchwords: | In brown ink and often framed |
Page Size: | 300 x 205 |
Frame: | Ruled in both light brown and rose-coloured ink |
Writing Space: | 210 x 110 |
Incipits and Explicits: | In red ink. |
Marginal Headings: | Red ink glosses in Man of Law's Tale and Pardoner's Tale. A few in the Parson's Tale. |
Running Titles: | Red ink on verso and recto preceded by blue paraphs flourished with red or gold flourished with blue ink. |
Illuminated Initials: | 5-line gold initials with champe sprays on coloured background used for beginnings of tales, 3-line initials in same colours for links. Blue, pink, orange and green. |
Paragraph Marks: | Blue alternating with gold for stanzas in Man of Law, Prioress, Monk. Also used for glosses. and running titles. |
Other Names (not owners): | Numbered 8137 in the Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (d. 1872), it was bought from the family in 1923 by Rosenbach. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Hand 1 appears in London Letter Book I. |
Further Information: | Manly and Rickert I: 427-432 (called Phillipps 8137). Seymour II: 222-225. |