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English: Miniature illustration of Robin, the Miller, with a 16th century note "Robin with the Bagpype" from folio 34v of the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Robin is playing a bagpipe while riding a horse.

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Date 1400s
date QS:P,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source This detail comes from a Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA digital scan of folio 34v of the Ellesmere Chaucer, call number EL 26 C 9, "Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer, hosted at the Digital Scriptorium website: http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/dsheh/heh_brf?Description=&CallNumber=EL+26+C+9
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  • Original 2D miniature illustration: unknown 15th century artist.
  • Photographic facsimile by the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
  • Derivative work: Earthsound (talk)
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