By Geoffrey Chaucer, whose name appears on 47₅r. Title from opening words of text (leaf 1₂r). In verse. First words of text on leaf 1₃r: Whanne they were wonne and in the grete see .. Publication information from STC. Signatures: [1-32]⁸ [33]¹⁰ [34-39]⁸ [40]⁶ [41-46]⁸ [47]⁶. Leaves [1]₁, [33]₁₀, and [47]₆ are blank.
Publications about material
Wiggins, Alison. "What Did Renaissance Readers Write in their Printed Copies of Chaucer?" The Library 9:1 (2008): 3-36. doi: 10.1093/library/9.1.003.
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109814 Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 5082 Duff 87 GW 6585 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-431 Ricci, S. de. Census of Caxtons 22.7 Needham, P. Printer & the pardoner, Cx 17
Embossed goatskin binding, signed by F. Bedford. Lacking leaves 2-3, 7, 169, 185, 192, 257, 361, 366-373 which are supplied in facsimile (numbered in pencil 1, 2, 6, 168, 184, 191, 256, 359, 364-371); lacking the three blank leaves. Occasional manuscript notes; some manuscript corrections in text. Provenance: Leather bookplate of the Huth library (no. 1547 in the Sotheby sale catalog of the 2nd pt. of the library, June 1912); booklabel of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth; purchased in 1938.
