Miniature of Chaucer, wearing an inkhorn around his neck, clutching a rosary, and pointing at the text. The lines of verse at which Chaucer points refer to his portrait: 'I have heere his liknesse / Do make, to this ende,
a miniature of Chaucer, wearing an inkhorn around his neck, clutching a rosary, and pointing at the text. Horizontal catchwords.f. 1* is a parchment flyleaf.f. 1: Added text in a later hand, with the rubric: 'Here begynnth the Book how
of Geoffrey Chaucer pointing the text, with a caption reading 'Chauceris ymago'. Includes five works by Thomas Hoccleve (b. c.1367, d. 1426): The Regenment of Princes (ff. 4-101v), addressed to prince Henry, the future Henry V;The Chaste Empress or Jereslaus
marginal miniature of Geoffrey Chaucer pointing the text, with a caption reading 'Chauceris ymago'. Includes five works by Thomas Hoccleve (b. c.1367, d. 1426): The Regenment of Princes (ff. 4-101v), addressed to prince Henry, the future Henry V;The Chaste Empress
his sale, Sotheby's, 3 December 1906, lot 115. Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829) (note on 2nd flyleaf). Initials Chaucer England
Print from 6 MSS not containing the Pardoner s Tale, The Chaucer Society Series 1, 92, London: Tr ü bner. Hammond, E. P. 1908, rpt. 1933. Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual , New York: Macmillan, rpt, New York: Peter Smith,
Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall , London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 61, no. 575.
Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall , London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 95, no. 716.
Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall , London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 86, no. 658.
Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall , London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 89, no. 673.