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Summary
Image of Chaucer as a pilgrim from folio 153v of the Ellesmere Chaucer in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The manuscript is an early publishing of the Canterbury Tales.
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Chaucer as a pilgrim from the Ellesmere manuscript
Pelgrim Chaucer in het Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript