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The '''Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript''', also '''Hengwrt Chaucer''', is an early 15th century illuminated manuscript. It is believed to be the earliest extant copy of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''. It is held in the [[National Library of Wales]], [[Aberystwyth]], referred to as MS. Perniarth 392 D and usually abbreviated as Hg. Together with the [[Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript]] it is considered to be the closest to the original text of The Canterbury Tales. The manuscript is named after the residence of Colonel Robert Baughan, one of its owners, who lived at Hengwrt in Wales. <ref>Scala, p. 484.</ref> | The '''Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript''', also '''Hengwrt Chaucer''', is an early 15th century illuminated manuscript. It is believed to be the earliest extant copy of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''. It is held in the [[National Library of Wales]], [[Aberystwyth]], referred to as MS. Perniarth 392 D and usually abbreviated as Hg. Together with the [[Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript]] it is considered to be the closest to the original text of The Canterbury Tales. The manuscript is named after the residence of Colonel Robert Baughan, one of its owners, who lived at Hengwrt in Wales. <ref>Scala, p. 484.</ref> | ||
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==Significance of the Hengwrt Chaucer== | |||
Although the Hengwrt Chaucer is less attractive as the Ellesmere Chaucer, it has emerged as a superior manuscript of ''The Canterbury Tales''. <ref>Scala, p. 492.</ref> The Hengwrt Chaucer was first published in Furnivall’s parallel text in 1868, <ref>Frederick J. Furnivall, ed.,[http://www.archive.org/stream/hengwrtmschauce00chaugoog#page/n8/mode/2up The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales], London, published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & CO., Ludgate Hill, 1868.</ref> but it only drew increasing attention since John M. Manly and Edith Rickert's collection and study of all the Canterbury Tale manuscripts, published in 1940. <ref>J.M. Manly and E. Rickert, "Text of the Canterbury Tales, Studied on the Basis of All Known Manuscripts, 8 vol., 1940.</ref><br /> | |||
In 1924 Manly and Rickert, colleagues at the University of Chicago, started a project for a new edition of ''The Canterbury Tales''. Their goal was to produce a text, which would come close to what Chaucer's holograph might have looked like by reconstruction genealogically the ancestor of the surviving copies of the Canterbury Tales. They tracked down all manuscripts known to exist as well as those whose survival was unsure. With the available technology of the photostat they could make copies to compare all those 'silent witnesses'. Procuring the manuscripts was not an easy task. Many of them were still in private collections. | |||
==History of the manuscript== | |||
==Description of the manuscript== | |||
==The order of the tales== | |||
==The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile== | |||
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==Sources and references== | ==Sources and references== | ||
* Elizabeth Scala, "Editing Chaucer", in: Steve Ellis ''Chaucer An Oxford Guide'' (2005). New York United States: Oxford University Press. Inc. ISBN 0-19-925912-7 | * Elizabeth Scala, "Editing Chaucer", in: Steve Ellis ''Chaucer An Oxford Guide'' (2005). New York United States: Oxford University Press. Inc. ISBN 0-19-925912-7 | ||
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Revision as of 10:58, 4 May 2010
The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript, also Hengwrt Chaucer, is an early 15th century illuminated manuscript. It is believed to be the earliest extant copy of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It is held in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, referred to as MS. Perniarth 392 D and usually abbreviated as Hg. Together with the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript it is considered to be the closest to the original text of The Canterbury Tales. The manuscript is named after the residence of Colonel Robert Baughan, one of its owners, who lived at Hengwrt in Wales. [1]
Sources and references
- Elizabeth Scala, "Editing Chaucer", in: Steve Ellis Chaucer An Oxford Guide (2005). New York United States: Oxford University Press. Inc. ISBN 0-19-925912-7
- ↑ Scala, p. 484.