Manuscript Description USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 144 | |
| MS Appellation: | HM 144 (Manly and Rickert) |
| Title: | Canterbury Tales (part) |
| Author: | Chaucer, Lydgate and Burgh |
| Contents: | Miscellany including Chaucer's Melibeus and the Monk's Tale, Lydgate's Cherle and Byrde and Hors Sheep and Goos |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1475-1500 |
| 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: | iv + 151 |
| Page Size: | 290 x 200 |
| Frame: | Ruled in dry-point |
| Writing Space: | 190 x 137 approx. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red paraphs and underlining in red ink also. |
| Flourished Initials: | Red with no flourishing |
| Further Information: | Lister Matheson says that this scribe also copied London, Lambeth Palace, MS 84 and Oxford, Trinity College MS 29. |