The University of Glasgow Library has been running an exhibition on Chaucer - The World of Chaucer: Medieval Books and Manuscripts: Web version of the catalogue of an exhibition of manuscripts and early printed books from Glasgow University Library held at the Hunterian Museum 15 May to 28 August 2004 / Catalogue compiled by Julie Gardham and introduced by David Weston.
Of particular interest is Case 5: Leisure, Law and Learning.
Pynson's Canterbury Tales was the Library's Book of the Month in May.
Showing posts with label Chaucer. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 29, 2004
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Literary Landscapes - a virtual exhibition on Collect Britain, from the British Library - includes Jane Austen's Bath, Chaucer's Kent and Scott's Highlands.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Linne Mooney, Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, has discovered that Chaucer's scribe, immortalised in verse for his carelessness, was Adam Pinkhurst, the son of a Dorking landowner, and, far from being despised by the writer, he was Chaucer's favourite scribe, and responsible for the immortal line at the end of The Cook's Tale, "Of this tale Chaucer wrote no more."
'The scrivener's tale: how Chaucer's sloppy copyist was unmasked after 600 years' by John Ezard. The Guardian, Tuesday 20 July 2004.
'The scrivener's tale: how Chaucer's sloppy copyist was unmasked after 600 years' by John Ezard. The Guardian, Tuesday 20 July 2004.
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