Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Caxton)

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Caxton): Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
    Title: The Canterbury Tales
    Place: [Westminster]
    Printer/Publisher: [Caxton, William]
    Date: about 1476-77
    Edition / Issue: 1st edn
    Main Language: English
    Contents:
      Item 1: Canterbury Tales [fols 2r-373r]

        Incipit: [W]Han that Apprill with his souris sote And the droughte of marche hath pcid y rote And badid euery veyne in suche licour

        Note: The tale order in this edition is as follows (see the tale order of Caxton's second edition):

        • Prologue;
        • Knight's Tale;
        • Miller's Tale;
        • Reeve's Tale;
        • Cook's Tale;
        • Man of Law's Tale;
        • Squire's Tale;
        • Merchant's Tale;
        • Wife of Bath's Tale;
        • Friar's Tale;
        • Summoner's Tale;
        • Clerks Tale;
        • words of The Host;
        • Franklin's Tale;
        • Second nun's Tale;
        • Canon's Yeoman's Tale;
        • Doctor of Physic's Tale;
        • Pardoner's Tale;
        • Shipman's Tale;
        • Prioreress's Tale;
        • Sir Thopas's Tale;
        • Melibeus's Tale;
        • Monk's Tale;
        • Nun's Priest's Tale;
        • Manciple's Tale;
        • Parson's Tale

      Item 2: Chaucer's Retraction [fol. 373v-]

        Incipit: Now pray I to hem alle that herkene this litil tretyse or rede that yf ther be ony thing that liketh hem that therof they thanke our lord Ihesu Crist

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Format: F°

Ideal collation: a-z A-I8 K10 L-Q8 R6 S-Z8 aa6. 374 Leaves, 1, 266 and 374 blank.

Foliation and/or Pagination: No foliation.

Layout description:

      Layout:
      • Columns: 1
      • Written Lines: 29
      • Locus: All

Type:

Decoration Description:

List of Copies:

    • Copies as listed in ISTC (copies with descriptions are colour highlighted)
      • UK, London, British Library. 167.c. 26 = IB.55009
      • UK, London, British Library, C.40.m.9(23), (consists of fragments of fols 299 and 319, from a collection formed by Bagford)
      • UK, London, British Library, G.11585 = IB.55010 (imperfect, wanting leaves [a]2, 7-8 and [aa]3-5, supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile)
      • UK, Coleraine, Ulster UL (1 leaf)
      • UK, Manchester JRL 11567 (- 10 ff, supplied in facsimile; DeR 22.5)
      • UK, Oxford Bodley (8 ff., DeR 22.25)
      • UK, Oxford, Balliol College (f.191 only)
      • UK, Oxford, Merton College (DeR 22.2)
      • UK, Burton upon Trent, Wormsley Library (DeR 22.4)
      • Germany, Mainz GM/StB (1 leaf only, GM-Ink.132)
      • Germany, München BSB (1 leaf only)
      • USA, Austin TX, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (1 leaf)
      • USA, Berkeley CA, Univ. of California, Bancroft Library (1 leaf)
      • USA, Bloomington IN, Indiana University, The Lilly Library (- 18 ff.: DeR 22.11)
      • USA, Boston MA, Boston Public Library (1 leaf)
      • USA, Cambridge MA, Harvard College Library, Houghton Library (2 ff.)
      • USA, Chicago IL, Redmond A. Burke, C.S.V. (3 ff.)
      • USA, Chicago IL, The Newberry Library (1 leaf)
      • USA, Detroit MI, Detroit Public Library (1 leaf)
      • USA, Evanston IL, Northwestern Univ. Library (3 ff.)
      • USA, New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library (165 ff)
      • USA, New Haven CT, Yale University, Center for British Art (DeR 22.21 [292 ff] + 5 ff.)
      • USA, New York NY, New York Public Library, Rare Book Division (1 leaf)
      • USA, New York NY, Norman H. Strouse (1 leaf)
      • USA, New York NY, Pierpont Morgan Library (DeR 22.9)
      • USA, Princeton NJ, Princeton Univ., Firestone Library (2 ff.)
      • USA, San Juan PR, La Casa del Libro (1 leaf)
      • USA, San Marino CA, The Huntington Library (DeR 22.10)
      • USA, Toledo OH, Toledo Museum of Art (1 leaf)
      • USA, Washington DC, Folger Shakespeare Library (- 16 ff., supplied in facsimile: DeR 22.7)
      • USA, Washington DC, Library of Congress, John Davis Batchelder Collection (1 leaf)
      • USA, Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division (1 leaf)
      • USA, Wellesley MA, Wellesley College Library (1 leaf)
      • USA, Williamstown MA, Williams College, Chapin Library (2 ff.)
      • Sweden, Stockholm RL; Uppsala UB (1 leaf only)
      • Japan, Kobe, Konan Women's UL (8 ff., Doheny copy 2)
      • Doubtful: Doheny copy 1 (65 ff.) sold 1987; whereabouts unknown

Bibliography:

Administration Information: