Hengwrt Chaucer
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The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, where it is known as MS Peniarth 392D. It was one of the numerous manuscripts amassed at the mansion of Hengwrt, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, by Welsh antiquarian Robert Vaughan (c.1592-1667), which later passed to the newly-established National Library of Wales as the Peniarth Manuscripts.
There is another early manuscript of the text, and written close in date, called the Ellesmere manuscript, and they are believed to be by the same scribe, though the Ellesmere manuscript has much more elaborate illustrations. Professor Linne Mooney, a literary scholar at The University of Maine, believes she has recently identified the scribe as Adam Pinkhurst, the same Adam to which Chaucer directs a poem.
[edit] External links
- Canterbury Tales Project digital facsimile of the whole Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript, edited by Estelle Stubbs
- The Hengwrt Chaucer at the National Library of Wales
- Specimen pages
