Ellesmere Chaucer
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The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San
Ellesmere Manuscript in Huntington Library
The beginning of The Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere Manuscript
The opening page of The Wife of Bath's Tale from the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, circa 1405–1410
Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere Manuscript
Huntington Library
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntingto
Ellesmere Chaucer
…or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales. Chaucer scholarship has long assumed that no…
Formerly the residence of Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and his wife, Arabella Huntington (1850–1924), the Huntington Art Gallery opened in 1928.
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770