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Dyddiad(au)
- [1395]-[1405] (Creation)
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Ffeil
Maint a chyfrwng
258 ff. (4 modern binding leaves, followed by original parchment leaves foliated 2-250 ff., and a further 4 modern binding leaves) : Parchment ; approx. 290 x 205 mm. (trimmed irregularly), written space variable, from 210-230 x 115-130 mm.
Rebound at NLW in 1956 in red morocco, blind stamped diamond and rectangular geometrical patterns, with metal ring and hook clasps and braided leather hinges. Sewn on five double bands. This binding replaced covers of dark leather on (possibly medieval) oak boards, removed (together with a guard leaf from a saec xiii Sarum Breviary) in 1930, and retained.
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Numerous sixteenth-century inscriptions testify to the presence then of the manuscript in Chester: ‘ffouke Dutton Huius ly[bri] est possesor’ (f. 87); ‘R Wryne’ (f. 125 verso); Brereton family records of five births (f. 128 verso); ‘Joh[ann]es Barcomsted gen[erosus] huius libri’ (f. 145 verso); Banestar/Bannester family records of five births (f. 165); ‘Gilbart Nelsoun’ (f. 44); ‘James pratri’ (f. 171 verso); ‘Willm Dymmocke’ (f. 171 verso). The Brereton family records include the births of Frances, Richard, and Ann ‘at llanver neare carnarvon’ (f. 128 verso), and on f. 152 verso is a memorandum of debt, due 1625, signed ‘Andrew Brereton of llanvairiscaird in the Countie of Carnarvon gent’ (who died 1649). This may explain the way in which the manuscript travelled from Chester to Caernarfon, and thence to Hengwrt. The manuscript is included in the 1658 catalogue of manuscripts belonging to Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, Meirionnydd as ‘Membrana 154 Chaucer’s Works very fairly written on vellom. In fol. 4 inches thick’.
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A late fourteenth-, or early fifteenth-century manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, lacking VIII(G)554-1481 (i.e., the Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale); X(I)1180-end lost).
Doyle and Parkes’s ‘Scribe B’, the scribe of the Hengwrt Chaucer, has long been identified as having also been responsible for writing other manuscripts, including the Ellesmere Chaucer (Huntington Library MS 26 C 9). He was identified in 2006 by Linne Mooney as Adam Pinkhurst, a London-based scrivener associated with Chaucer.
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Item: 2.1. Action: Digitized. Action identifier: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). Date: 20140808. Site of action: NLW. Authorization: NLW. Authorizing institution: Bill Endres of the University of Kentucky. Extent: ff. 2, 2v, 13v, 14, 85v, 87v, 159, 159v, 209v. Type of unit: Folios.
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According to McCormick and Heseltine ‘This MS was misbound very early in its history’ (p. 245). According to Seymour, the fives sections of the manuscript ‘were not intended to be visually distinct in the bound volume’ (p. 31).
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Amodau rheoli mynediad
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright laws apply.
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Sgript o ddeunydd
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Middle English.
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Portions of the manuscript show historic damage, with top outer corners, and lower corners of ff. 210-215, gnawed by rodents before the manuscript arrived at NLW. The damaged portions were replaced with blank parchment in 1956.
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Cymorth chwilio a gynhyrchir
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Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4628556 (viewed September 2018)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Digital images of the manuscript are available on CD-Rom in the Library's Reading Room.
Monochrome images of the manuscript are available in The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript, ed. by Paul C. Ruggiers (Norman, Oklahoma, 1979).
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Nodyn cyhoeddiad
W. McCormick and J. E. Heseltine, The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Oxford, 1933), pp. 245-251.
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J. M. Manly and E. Rickert, 'The Hengwrt Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales', The National Library of Wales Journal, 1 (1939), 59-75.
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The Text of the Canterbury Tales, Studied on the Basis of All Known Manuscripts (Chicago, 1940), ed. by J. M. Manly and E. Rickert, I, 266-283.
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A. I. Doyle and M. B. Parkes, 'Palaeographical Introduction', in The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript, ed. by Paul G. Ruggiers (Norman, Oklahoma, 1979), pp. xix-xlix.
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N. F. Blake, The Canterbury Tales, Edited from the Hengwrt Manuscript (London, 1980).
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Charles A. Owen, Jr., The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge, 1991).
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M. C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1997), II, 31-34.
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D. W. Mosser, 'Manuscript description', The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile, ed. Estelle Stubbs (Leicester, 2000).
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Linne R. Mooney, 'Chaucer's Scribe', Speculum, 81 (2006), 97-138.
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Linne R. Mooney and Estelle Stubbs, Scribes and the City: London Guildhall Clerks and the Dissemination of Middle English Literature, 1375-1425 (York, 2013).
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'Manuscript description' on the 'Late Medieval English Scribes' database (viewed 1 April 2014).
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Varying form of title: Chaucer Hengwrt.
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Previously Hengwrt MS 154.
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Title supplied by NLW cataloguers based on contents and modern usage.
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Siglum Hg.
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Pencil foliations begin with the first page as 2, possibly as the ‘leaf from an early-fourteenth-century Sarum breviary with musical notation’ was formerly bound with the text as f. 1 (Doyle and Parkes 1979, p. xlii).
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Script: anglicana formata, with double-compartment a, and looped ascenders on b and d, now identified as the hand of Adam Pinkhurst. The supplementary five hands include that of Thomas Hoccleve (on ff. 88 verso, 138 verso and 150).
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Ink: dark brown, or grey-ish brown.
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Decoration: The opening page (f. 2) begins with a 7-line initial W in blue, gold, red and pink. The text is surrounded by a full border–bars of the same colors, decorated with knots and trefoils–although the heading (‘Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Cauntbury’), in a gold-brown ink, is above, and in places overlapped by, the top bar. Two-line blue initials with red penwork mark the openings of tales, prologues, and links. Smaller blue paraphs mark lesser textual divisions and glosses.
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Marginalia: names of pilgrims in left margin of the Prologue, and Latin quotations and other glosses thereafter in right margin.
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Ruled: Single columns of 39-44 lines per page. Ruled in dry point with pricks, some folios ruled in lead.
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Collation: 1-5(8), 6(2), 7(6), 8-11(8), 12(6), 13-20(8), 21(8+1), 22(8+8), 23-28(8), 29(10), 30-31(8). Signatures visible in quires 16-29 only.
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Locale: London.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 392D [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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Exhibited at the Chaucer: Here and Now exhibition in the Weston Library, Bodleian Library Oxford, 8 December 2023 – 28 April 2024.
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Dynodwr disgrifiad
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Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Statws
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Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
April 2014.
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Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw, based on the work of previous describers, including Daniel W. Mosser.
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