Description - The New Ellesmere Chaucer Monochromatic Facsimile by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, probably created soon after his death in 1400, is the most famous English literary manuscript to survive from the Middle Ages. Acquired by H E Huntington in 1917, it contains the text and order-of-tales that for a century and a half have shaped nearly everyone's understanding, of the Canterbury Tales. Far less familiar is the ingenious presentation of the text, involving carefully planned illuminations, page design, glosses, and portraits of all the pilgrim-storytellers. This full-size monochromatic facsimile (limited to 1000 copies) was created from the same transparencies used to produce The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile (1995) a full-size, full-colour facsimile.
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