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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. |