As forThe Canterbury Tales, the archive boasts at least 23 editions.
That is a really wonderful detail because there arent that many surviving portraits of him, he tellsThe Guardian.
Medieval manuscripts of Chaucer’s other notable works are also available.
The opening of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, with a portrait of the author:Lansdowne MS 851, f. 2r
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To learn more, visit theBritish Library’s website.
A 16th-century portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a rosary and stylus:Add MS 5141, f. 1r
The opening of Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, showing printed and handwritten versions of the text side-by-side:Add MS 9832, ff. 3v-4r
A woodcut of the pilgrims from William Caxton’s 1483 edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales:G.11586, f. 20 c4
The opening of ‘The Knight’s Tale’, from Thomas Speght’s 1598 edition of the collected works of Geoffrey Chaucer:Add MS 42518, f. 29r
The opening of Walter Stevins’ revised edition of Chaucer’s ‘Treatise on the Astrolabe’:Sloane MS 261, f. 1r*
