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  RPO -- Selected Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)
The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poet/61.html   (246 words)

  
 Ellesmere Manuscript; general note
The Ellesmere Manuscript (which is in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California) is one of the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, the other is the Hengwrt Manuscript (or Peniarth 392 D, now in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire).
The Ellesmere (as opposed to the relatively plain Hengwrt) is one of the most elaborately illuminated of the surviving manuscripts of the Cantervury Tales.
The Canterbury tales : a facsimile and transcription of the Hengwrt manuscript with variants from the Ellesmere manuscript, Geoffrey Chaucer; edited by Paul G. Ruggiers; introductions by Donald C. Baker, and by A. Doyle and M. Parkes.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~chaucer/canttales/knight/elles-ms.html   (619 words)

  
 AHDS Case Studies: The Canterbury Tales Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The presence of the manuscripts El (the Ellesmere manuscript) and the Hg (the Hengwrt manuscript) near the base of the tree suggest that, while they do have the odd individual variation, they are more likely to be among the older manuscripts in the Chaucer tradition, upon which the others are founded.
Some scribes copied from several manuscripts, more than one hand may have been at work on a single manuscript, other scribes would have misread the manuscripts they were working from, Chaucer himself might have added later insertions to one or two of the manuscripts, and there are probably many manuscripts that went missing.
These manuscripts were then removed from the equation and a final PAUP analysis was made on the remaining manuscripts, based on the entirety of the Wife's Prologue.
ahds.ac.uk /creating/case-studies/canterbury/index.htm   (2867 words)

  
 Editorial Development of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Among 56 complete manuscripts of the work, the four manuscripts are of great importance not only for their early dates but also for their distinctive features.
Hengwrt is superior to any other manuscript because it is more accurate representations of metrical practice and it is free from editorialization: MS.
Hengwrt, it is freely emended and corrected by a scribe who attempted to present the Tales in a coherent form.
www.msu.edu /user/tiemando/9inchol.htm   (603 words)

  
 The Digital Mirror - Manuscripts - Chaucer
The 'Hengwrt Chaucer' (Peniarth MS 392D) is undoubtedly one of the greatest treasures of the National Library of Wales and one of the best known outside Wales.
In the case of the 'Hengwrt Chaucer', later additions indicate that by the sixteenth century the manuscript had reached the Welsh Borders, for it belonged to Fouke Dutton, identified as a draper of Chester, who died in 1558.
Amongst other Chaucer manuscripts in the Library's collections are three exemplars of his Tretyse on the Astrolabe, all with Welsh associations: Peniarth 359, NLW 3049D and NLW 3567B; the last of which was in the possession of John Edwards of Chirk, Denbighshire, as early as 1551.
www.llgc.org.uk /drych/drych_s007.htm   (819 words)

  
 Images
The Ellesmere Manuscript, one of the two earliest surviving manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales (the other is the Hengwrt Ms.), was probably made shortly after Chaucer's death in 1400.
The Ellesmere Manuscript, now owned by the Huntington Library, is generally considered the best and most authoritative remaining manuscript for the Canterbury Tales.
This image of the opening of the General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript, generally considered to be second only to the Ellesmere in terms of its quality, is from the Scholarly Digital Edition edited by Estelle Stubbs:
pages.towson.edu /duncan/chaucer/images.htm   (400 words)

  
 BBC News | WALES | Ancient manuscript goes on CD
Now, one of the most important manuscripts of his work - which has been in safe-keeping in Wales since at least the 17th Century - is being made available to new audiences via computer technology.
Soon, the treasures of the Hengwrt Chaucer will be seen in all their glory on a CD-Rom which is the result of a partnership between the library and the Canterbury Tales Project.
"Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt in Meirionethshire was one of the main collectors of manuscripts in Wales.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/999987.stm   (505 words)

  
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The Hengwrt manuscript may be the oldest of the many 15th-century manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales and remains the source of many modern editions.
The earliest surviving manuscript of the romance composed in a Southern dialect c1325 and usually attributed to Chestre.
The earliest of the four manuscripts of a romance that was composed c1375 in the North of England.
www.unr.edu /cla/ch/boardman/annals/Ear15th.htm   (4648 words)

  
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I have found the Ellesmere Manuscripts to be not only a different manuscript with small differences but rather an incredibly unique work of art as well.
It is one of the earliest surviving manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales.
Another old manuscript is the Hengwrt Manuscript, and it is unclear which is older.
beowulf.engl.uky.edu /~kiernan/ENG421/Reports/Reports-1/jones-1.html   (746 words)

  
 Hengwrt manuscript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The opening folio of the Hengwrt manuscript contains the beginning of the General Prologue.
Professor Linne Mooney, a literary scholar at The University of Maine, believes she has recently identified the scribe as Adam Pinkhurst, the same Adam to which Chaucer directs a poem.
There is a digital facsimile of the whole Hengwrt manuscript, edited by Estelle Stubbs as part of the Canterbury Tales Project: specimen pages from this can be seen [1].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hengwrt_manuscript   (163 words)

  
 Essential Chaucer: Manuscripts and Texts
Analyzes the execution and consistency of several manuscripts to argue that early fifteenth-century manuscript production was "a bespoke trade consisting of independent craftsmen working to specific commissions." Compares facsimile pages of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, assessing the layout of these manuscripts by the same scribe.
The headings and glosses of the Hengwrt are afterthoughts, while the Ellesmere reflects the scribe's intention to, in effect, edit the text.
The "Canterbury Tales": A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript.
colfa.utsa.edu /chaucer/ec3.html   (893 words)

  
 Spero News: Mystery scribe of Canterbury Tales identified
It was written after the Hengwrt manuscript but by the same scribe, whom Mooney has now identified as Adam Pinkhurst.
Scholars have long accepted that these two manuscripts were written by the same hand, but we have not until now had any information about who this scribe was or where he came from, where he lived and worked.
The two manuscripts copied by Adam referred to in Chaucer's short poem may also be identified: a copy of Chaucer's prose translation, Boece, has recently been tentatively identified as written by the same scribe as Hengwrt and Ellesmere.
www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=801   (543 words)

  
 Essential Chaucer: Editions
Valuable primarily for its list of manuscript variants appended to each poem, although the glossary and surveys of the manuscripts of the individual poems are helpful.
Based upon preferred manuscripts of the works (Ellesmere for Canterbury Tales), the eclectic text, the introductory essays, and the textual and explanatory notes have made this the standard edition of Chaucer for several generations.
Intended to present fresh texts from the best manuscripts, variants from the important manuscripts and editions down to the present, textual and explanatory notes summarizing the scholarship and criticism to c1980- 85, and introductory surveys of the criticism and textual tradition.
colfa.utsa.edu /chaucer/ec2.html   (1149 words)

  
 Rachel's Cat House: January 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The Hengwrt manuscript differs from the Ellesmere because it lacks the Canon’ Yeoman’s Prologue and tale, part of the Parson’s Tale, and several of the tales’ prologues.
This analysis takes the mass of regularised words in each manuscript, which gives an indication of the manuscripts that share similar patterns of regularised words and the manuscripts that have significant deviations.
These two manuscripts are found at the base of the tree which indicates that they are the closest manuscripts to Chaucer’s original.
blogs.setonhill.edu /RachelHoward/2004_01.html   (1515 words)

  
 The Medieval Academy
The small icon in the upper left-hand corner as one examines the pages of the manuscript, showing at which opening in which quire one is on screen, helps to create the illusion of turning the pages of the manuscript.
Stubbs discusses in detail such features as catchwords, punctuation of running titles, and changes of hand, all of which influence her interpretation of the manuscript as a work in progress.
With an entire manuscript available on this CD, one can show students variations in the scribe’s handwriting from one portion of the manuscript to another, or assign students transcription and study of individual tales, quires, or booklets of the whole.
www.medievalacademy.org /medacnews/news_mooney.htm   (538 words)

  
 Critical Apparatus
In fact, the manuscripts display many different spellings of these words, and a scholar may wish both to show that the manuscripts have all these variant spellings and that these variant spellings actually support only the three regularized spelling forms.
Suppose a fragment of a manuscript X of the Wife of Bath's Prologue has a physical lacuna, and the text of the manuscript begins with ‘auctorite’.
An application will be able to determine the manuscripts that witness the base reading, by noting which witnesses are attested as having a variant reading, and inferring the base-text reading for all others after adjusting for fragmentary witnesses and for witnesses carrying overlapping variant readings.
www.tei-c.org.uk /P4X/TC.html   (7485 words)

  
 The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile
The CD-ROM incorporates the first-ever full colour facsimile of the "Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript" (National Library of Wales Peniarth 392 D), one of the most important of all English literary manuscripts, together with binding fragments and the leaves of the Merthyr fragment.
This CD-ROM joins the images to the transcriptions of the text, collations with the other crucial early manuscript of the "Tales" (the "Ellesmere Chaucer", in the Huntington Library), complete descriptions and analytical discussions to give a full set of materials for studying this important manuscript.
If you want to carry out searches on the whole text, to examine the manuscript more closely to check the exact readings at each point, and to have all this on your computer at all times, then the Standard Edition will be appropriate.
www.digento.de /titel/100209.html   (487 words)

  
 15ch8
The manuscript, furthermore, neither presents itself as a sumptuous manuscript, like the famous Ellesmere, nor holds a place of importance in the date of its composition, like the equally famous Hengwrt manuscript.
My recent analysis of the manuscript leads me to believe that some of what Manly and Rickert deduced is in error, errors which have a significant bearing on both the methods of production of this manuscript and on its evidence for the "publication" of Chaucer in the provinces.
Manly and Rickert assume, first of all, that this manuscript was produced by a group of Austin canons at the Abbey of St. Mary de Pratis.
www.luc.edu /publications/medieval/vol15/15ch8.html   (3217 words)

  
 The University of Maine - UMaine Today Magazine - November / December 2004 - Finding Adam
Through her research on medieval manuscripts, Mooney has identified the scribe who wrote the earliest surviving copy of The Canterbury Tales.
Scholars have long accepted that the so-called Hengwrt manuscript, now in the Hengwrt Collection at the National Library of Wales, and the subsequent Ellesmere manuscript, now in the Henry E. Huntington Library in California, were written by the same hand.
Even if the manuscripts were written after Chaucer’s death, she says, they were written by someone who had a close working relationship with the author while he was creating the Tales.
www.umainetoday.umaine.edu /Issues/v4i5/adam.html   (654 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Cambridge University identifies Chaucer's scribe
The earliest surviving copy is the so-called "Hengwrt" manuscript, now in the National Library of Wales.
Mooney says her study shows Chaucer also supervised Pinkhurst in copying the first manuscripts of his prose translation of Boethius's "The Consolation of Philosophy" and his "Troilus and Criseyde," written in the 1380s.
Mooney said she believes Pinkhurst was the son of a small landowner and probably came from Surrey county in southern England.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040720-1338-chaucersscribe.html   (459 words)

  
 The Cook's Tale: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In the Hengwrt manuscript, probably the earliest attempt at organizing the fragments of the Tales, the scribe left room to fill in the missing conclusion, apparently with the hope that stray pages might turn up among the author's papers.
Manuscripts without Gamelyn were left to manage as best they could.
The Bodley manuscript is a deliberately constructed poetic anthology, omitting the prose tales of Melibee and The Parson's Tale, but continuing with eleven moral and religious poems by John Lydgate.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/cooksint.htm   (450 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Hengwrt Manuscript": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
computer-assisted comprehensive textual collation between the Hengwrt Manuscript and the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales.
Doyle and M. Parkes, ' A Paleographical Introduction' in The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, ed.
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure In Late Medieva by Elizabeth Scala
www.amazon.com /phrase/Hengwrt-Manuscript   (560 words)

  
 The Canterbury Tales information - Search.com
Portrait of Chaucer as a Canterbury pilgrim in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales
Two early manuscripts of the tale are the Hengwrt manuscript and the Ellesmere manuscript.
The Tale of Beryn is a tale by an anonymous author within a 15th century manuscript of the work.
www.search.com /reference/Canterbury_Tales   (1690 words)

  
 Introduction
The manuscript was given to the college by George Willmer, JP for Middlesex, a major benefactor to Trinity College, who died in 1626.
The word-division of the manuscript is followed as far as practicable, though no attempt is made to represent the variety of spacing between words and letters.
In a further discussion of the spellings of the scribe of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, Samuels listed "eleven variational criteria" for thirteen texts which he classified as Types II and III, that is to say representing respectively London English up to about 1380 and from about 1380 to 1420.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu /seenet/piers/windows/introduction.html   (10551 words)

  
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Once we have a clear sense of the sequence of copying of the manuscripts, we can begin to discriminate which manuscripts appear closest to the head of the tradition, and in turn use that information to filter Chaucer's own text from the mass of scribal variation.
Thus in the transcription introductions to most manuscripts, we say that word division is uncertain and that it was often difficult to decide whether the spelling is as one or as two words.
We hope that by bringing the manuscripts so close to the reader, in all their richness and all their confusion of readings and spellings, that we will bring the period, the language, and Chaucer himself far closer to the reader.
www.ucalgary.ca /~scriptor/chaucer/rob.html   (4294 words)

  
 The Electronic Canterbury Tales
The Hengwrt Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, ed.
Read the General Prologue, Fragment I, Fragment III, and the Shipman and Pardoner's Tales in the famous Hengwrt manuscript (Hg, Nat.
Arnie Sanders (Goucher College) has written a brief "explanation for how the manuscripts of CT were placed in "families," and how manuscripts get accidentally altered in production.
afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu /LBW_1_MEngl.htm   (473 words)

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