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Geoffrey Chaucer: Hengwrt Chaucer  wikidata:Q2718121 reasonator:Q2718121
Author
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Editor
Adam Pinkhurst  (fl. 1385–1410) wikidata:Q968503
 
Description British scribe
Date of birth/death 14th century
date QS:P,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Work period 1385 Edit this at Wikidata–1410 Edit this at Wikidata
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Title
Hengwrt Chaucer
Part of Peniarth Manuscripts Edit this at Wikidata
Object type manuscript Edit this at Wikidata
Genre fiction Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Title page of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Possibly in the hand of his personal scribe Adam Pinkhurst
Language Middle English Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1400
date QS:P571,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Ink on parchment
Dimensions 290 × 205 mm (11.41 × 8.07 in)
institution QS:P195,Q666063
Accession number
Peniarth MS 392D (Peniarth Manuscripts) Edit this at Wikidata
References Peniarth MS 392D
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Title page of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Possibly in the hand of his personal scribe Adam Pinkhurst

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