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Decorated initial from BL Harley 7333, f. 37
Decorated initial 'W'(hanne) at the beginning of the general prologue: 'Whanne that aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote'. Image taken from f. 37 of The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund…
Contributors
- John Shirley
Creator
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Subject
- British Library Harley Collection
- BL Harley 7333
- f. 37
- Gothic cursive
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- 1425 - 1474
- 1425/1474
Contributors
- John Shirley
Creator
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Subject
- British Library Harley Collection
- BL Harley 7333
- f. 37
- Gothic cursive
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- 1425 - 1474
- 1425/1474
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain. Attribution to the British Library is recommended. For further details please visit: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp
Places
- England, Central (Leicester)
Identifier
- E120812
Extent
- 455 x 330 (330 x 230) in two columns
Format
- JPEG
Language
- en
Is part of
- http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6337
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1348
Relations
- The Canterbury Tales (imperfect), and other works, including the Prose Brut Chronicle of England ('peculiar version' to 1419) (ff. 1-24v), extracts from Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund (ff. 136-146v)
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-03-26T11:27:45.005Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2015-05-15T11:18:14.451Z