Canterbury Tales (2nd)

Canterbury Tales (2nd): Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
    Title: The Canterbury Tales
    Place: [Westminster]
    Printer/Publisher: Caxton, William
    Date: [1483]
    Edition / Issue: 2nd edn
    Main Language: English
    Contents:
      Item 1: Caxton's Proheyme [2r-v]

        Incipit: Proheyme Grete thankes lawdes and honour ought to be gyuen vnto the clerkes / poetes / and historiographs that haue wreton many noble bokes of wysedom... Of your charyte emond your dedes of mercy / remembre the sowle of the sayd Geoffrey chaucer first auctour and maker of thys book

      Item 2: Canterbury Tales [3r-311r]

        Incipit: wHan that Apryll wyth hys shouris sote | The droughte of marche hath percyD the rote | AnD bathyD euery veyne in suche lycour | Of whyche vertue engendryD is the flour ...

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

        • The General Prologue;
        • Knight's Tale;
        • Miller's Tale;
        • Reeve's Tale;
        • Cook's Tale;
        • Man of Law's Tale;
        • Merchant's Tale;
        • Squire's Tale;
        • Franklin's Tale;
        • Wife of Bath's Tale;
        • Friar's Tale;
        • Summoner's Tale;
        • Clerk's Tale;
        • Lenvoy de Chaucer;
        • Words of the Host;
        • Pardoner's Tale;
        • Shipman's Tale;
        • Words of the Host;
        • Prioress's Tale;
        • Sir Thopas's Tale;
        • Words of the Host;
        • Melibeus's Tale;
        • Monk's Tale;
        • Parson's Tale

      Item 3: Chaucer's Retraction [311v]

        Incipit: ... Thys blessyd regne may man purchace by pouerte spirituel and the glorye by lownesse the plene of loye by hunger and thirst

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Form: Codex

Format:

Ideal collation: a-t8 v6 aa-hh8 ii6 A-K8 L6. 314 leaves, 1 , 313, 314 blank.

Signatures: Signed to the fold with letter and roman numeral.

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      Layout:
      • Columns: 1
      • Written Lines: 38
      • Locus: All
      • Overview: With head-lines

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