The Canterbury Tales : the New Ellesmere Chaucer facsimile
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The Canterbury Tales : the New Ellesmere Chaucer facsimile
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1995, The New Ellesmere Chaucer facsimile is limited to 250 copies. Our copy is no. 80 and is sewn and bound in an early fifteenth-century-type binding, oak boards and quarter brown leather, contained in a quarter-leather and blue, linen-covered box.
The Ellesmere Chaucer is a beautiful and elaborately decorated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales created between 1400 and 1410. The manuscript is in excellent condition partly because it was undisturbed for about three centuries in the library of Sir Thomas Egerton (later Baron Ellesmere) and his family. The binding dates from 1995, when the manuscript was conserved and rebound to meet modern standards of preservation.
(https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/2838/)
Located in the Rare Books collection {PR1866 .W76 1995a}
