• Oxford, New College MS 314 / Canterbury Tales

(Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Double-v Scribe Dialect: No LP; County : Norfolk Material: Parchment No of Folios: ii + 311 + ii Pagination: Modern pencil foliation,

• London, British Library MS Additional 12044 / Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus and Criseyde Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Hand 1 Hand 2 Dialect: E. Anglia Material: Parchment No of Folios: iv + 113 + ii Pagination: In ink in what seems to

• London, British Library MS Additional 35286 / Canterbury Tales

(Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Chaucerian/W Mids. Material: Parchment No of Folios: Marbled flyleaf + 2 paper flyleaves + 1-288 vellum folios + 1 vellum

• London, British Library MS Harley 372 / Anelida and Arcite, Regiment of Princes

this volume which includes; Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund; Anelida and Arcite (ff57-60); Regiment of Princes (acephalous copy). Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Hammond Scribe Material: Paper No of Folios: 114 Quiring: 1(20), 2(24), 3(12), 4(14),

• London, British Library MS Harley 1239 / Troilus; Canterbury Tales

and Rickert) Title: Troilus; Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus; Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475? Scribal Hands: Hand 1 Hand 2 Hand 3 Hand 4 Dialect: LP 626; County: Norfolk Material: Parchment No of Folios: iii 19th century

• London, British Library MS Harley 2421 / Boethius

2421 Title: Boethius Author: Chaucer Contents: Boethius Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 3 modern flyleaves + ii + 154 + ii + 1(1880) + 4 modern Pagination: A few earlier arabic numerals

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS R. 3. 3 (532) / Canterbury Tales

Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales (ends incomplete in Parson's Tale). Language: English Date Range: 1450's by Manly and Rickert; James dates 'Cent. xv (after 1450), in a good rather current hand'. (2.50). Scribal Hands: Hatton 2 scribe

• London, British Library MS Harley 7333 / 'A library of secular literature' (Manly and Rickert), including the Canterbury Tales. There are 7 books now joined to form a single manuscript.

and Arcite; Stedfastnesse; Gentilesse; Truth; Complaint to his Purse; Brut chronicle; De Regimine Principum; selections from Confessio Amantis etc. Language: English Date Range: 1450-1500 Scribal Hands: Hand D Hand B Hand C Dialect: LP 9510; LP 5590; LP 5600; County:

• London, British Library MS Lansdowne 851 / Canterbury Tales

(Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Gloucs/Worcs/Herefords Material: Parchment No of Folios: i marbled flyleaf + i paper flyleaf + i marbled flyleaf + parchment flyleaf

• London, British Library MS Royal 17 D.XV part 1 / Canterbury Tales

Appellation: Ry1 (Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Scribal Hands: Hammond Scribe Hand A Dialect: Scribe 1 : W.Midlands; Scribe 2 : Hammond scribe Material: Paper No of Folios: 1-348 Quiring: 1(11-i missing),

• London, British Library MS Royal 18 C.II / Canterbury Tales

Ry2 (Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1420-1450 Scribal Hands: Hand 1 Hand 2 Dialect: Gloucs Material: Parchment No of Folios: i + 271 Pagination: Modern pencil foliation in top outer

• London, British Library MS Harley 372 / Unknown

the three lines of Latin text, for 'gentis' and for 'vulgi'. It is also used on one occasion in the English 'guye'. h Usage: 'that'; the 'h' shape is fairly consistent throughout the text with bowed head-loop resting on the

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 39 / John Brode

this Scribe: England, Manchester, John Rylands Library MS English 113 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 181 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 39 Current Manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 39 Identification: May be John Brode Sampled Folios: 3v, 47v Image

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.21 (601) / Hammond Scribe

by permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge a Usage: 'and'; single compartment 'a' used throughout the English text. Usage: 'quia'; double compartment 'a' used for the Latin glosses. Usage: 'And'; upper case 'A'. Usage: 'And'; d

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.15 (595) / Canterbury Tales

16th century tracts; ff3v-4v Prologue to Canterbury Tales (from Thynne's edition); ff5-315 Canterbury Tales; f 316 Piers Plowman's Crede Language: English Date Range: 1485-1550; after 1485 (Seymour and Manly and Rickert). Additions are 16th century. Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Standardised/Colourless

• Alnwick, Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, Collection of the Duke of Northumberland MS 455 / Canterbury Tales

Nl (Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales + unique Tale of Beryn Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Beryn scribe Dialect: LP : 6040; County : Essex Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 thick

• Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral Library MS A.4.18 (110) / Canterbury Tales

Ln (Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: LP : 6650; County : Bucks Material: Parchment No of Folios: i + 266 Pagination: A fairly modern foliation

• England, Petworth, Petworth House, The National Trust MS 7 / Canterbury Tales

MS Appellation: Pw Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Petworth Scribe Hand 1 Dialect: Petworth Scribe: S.W.Worcs/Gloucs (Smith 1997) Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 blank parchment leaf + 307 +

• Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 392D / Canterbury Tales

Hengwrt, Hg (Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1395-1415 Scribal Hands: Adam Pinkhurst Thomas Hoccleve Dialect: Adam Pinkhurst : Chaucerian Material: Parchment No of Folios: i (leaf from 13th century Sarum

• Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 197 (U.1.1) / Canterbury Tales

and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales (ff1-115); Purgatory of Saint Patrick (ff116-120) Language: English Date Range: 1476-1477 Scribal Hands: Geoffrey Spirling Dialect: Norwich Material: Paper No of Folios: iv modern paper flyleaves + ii and stub