Manuscript Description Europe, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale MS XIII.B.29 | |
| MS Appellation: | Np (Manly and Rickert) |
| Title: | Canterbury Tales (selection including The Clerk's Tale) |
| Author: | Chaucer and various |
| Contents: | Medicinal Recipes; Sir Beuys of Hampton; Of Seint Alex of Rome; Libeus Disconyus; Sir Isombrase; Griselde; Envoy to Beware of Doublenesse (Lydgate) |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | Dated 1457 by scribe named More. |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | ii + 146 |
| Pagination: | Modern page numbers. |
| Quiring: | i+1(10 xi and xii missing)+1(bifolium with i), 2-6(12), +2 |
| Signatures: | None. |
| Catchwords: | Present on pp. 46, 70, 94, 142 |
| Page Size: | 280 x 195 |
| Frame: | Double ruled lines on each side of text area in brown ink. |
| Writing Space: | 220 x 130 for Clerk's Tale. |
| Flourished Initials: | Space left for initials which were never executed. |
| Other Names (not owners): | Manly and Rickert establish the manuscript's ownership by Tommaso Campanella from the rebus of a bell on one of the flyleaves. |
| Further Information: | Manly and Rickert I: 376-380. Seymour I: 149-150. |