Manuscript Description England, Manchester, John Rylands Library MS Eng. 63 | |
MS Appellation: | Ox (Manly and Rickert) |
Title: | Canterbury Tales (Fragment) |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Canterbury Tales, one page ending Miller's Prologue and three for beginning of Miller's Tale. |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1440-1450 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 2 (one bifolium) |
Page Size: | 275 x 192 |
Frame: | 2 x vertical, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within, all in red ink. |
Writing Space: | 215 x 120 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Rubric explicit and incipit in space left for them. |
Borders: | Gold, rose and blue bar border down left side with sprays in upper and lower margins. |
Illuminated Initials: | 6-line blue and green initial 'W' with white highlighting on illuminated gold ground with blue, rose and green |
Miniatures: | Miller riding on horseback and playing a pipe. |
Further Information: | Manly and Rickert I: 396-398. Seymour II: 251-253. MMBL. This bifolium is from Philadelphia, Rosenbach Library MS 1084/2). |