Manuscript images © Cambridge University Library. Reproduction is strictly prohibited.
- You are now viewing the graphical version of the manuscript
1. The General Prologue
2. The Knight's Tale
3. The Miller's Prologue
4. The Miller's Tale
5. The Reeve's Prologue
6. The Reeve's Tale
7. The Cook's Prologue
8. The Cook's Tale
9. Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale
10. The Man of Law's Tale
11. The Wife of Bath's Prologue
12. The Wife of Bath's Tale
13. The Friar's Prologue
14. The Friar's Tale
15. The Summoner's Prologue
16. The Summoner's Tale
17. The Clerk's Tale
18. Lenvoye de Chaucer
19. Words of the Host
20. The Merchant's Prologue
21. The Merchant's Tale
22. Epilogue to the Merchant's Tale
23. The Squire's Tale
24. The Franklin's Tale
25. The Physician's Tale
26. Introduction to the Pardoner's Tale
27. The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale
28. The Shipman's Tale
29. The Prioress' Tale
30. The Tale of Sir Thopas
31. Here the Host 'stynteth' Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
32. The Tale of Melibeus
33. The Monk's Prologue
34. The Monk's Tale
35. The Nun's Priest's Prologue
36. The Nun's Priest's Tale
37. Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale
38. The Second Nun's Tale
39. The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue
40. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
The Miller's Prologue Folio 39r 1 of 2 folios
Of ielousie / or ony other tene
Thus endeth Palamon / and Emelye
And god saue al / this fair companye ¶ Amen quod Wytton;¶ A men quod Wytton ; : In the right margin.ODR
The Incipit appears on the right marging.ODR
Wh an th at th e knygħ t / had thus h is tale I tol d
Pen ink decorated ascenders use up the spece left for the incipit. The blue of the decorated letter is not the same of the blue of the paraph mark. This is evident on folio 39r. The capital is decorated using a shyning blue. A small pricking next to the first line of the prologue appears under the decorated letter and is visible from the verso of fol. 39v.ODR
In al the companye / ne was þ er e ȝong ne old
That he ne seide / it was a noble storie
And worthy for to drawen / to memorie
5
This goth a rigħ t / vnbocled is the male
Lat se now / who shal telle / a nother tale
A nota in the left margin. It is made with the same colour of ink as a dot opposite to line 6.ODR
For trewely / þ is game is wel bygonne
10
Now telletħ ȝe Sire Monke / if þ t ȝe cone
Som what / to quyte with / þ e knyghtes tale
Ale al pale is written above Ale as an interlinear insertion. The ink is lighter, but it is the same shade of brown.ODR
So þ at vn ethe / vp on his hors he sat
He nolde a valen / neither hod ne hat
15
Ne a byden noman / for his curteysie
But in pilates vois / he gan to crye
And swor by armes / and by blod & bones
A dot in a brown ink appears opposite to this line in the right margin.ODR
I can a noble tale / for the nones
With whicħ I wol now / quyte þ e knygħ tes tale
20
Oure host saw / that he was dronke of ale
And seide abyde / Robyn leue brother
Som betir man / shal telle vs first a nother
A byde / and late vs werkyn / thriftily
By goddes soule qd he / that wol nat I
25
For I wol speke / or elles go my wey
Oure host answered / telle on a dewelwey
Thow art a fool / thy wyt is ouer come
But first I make / a protestacioū
30
That I am dronke / I knowe it be my soun
And þ er fore / if that I / mysspeke or sey
Wyteth it the Ale / of Southwerk / I prey
For I wol telle / a legend / or a lyf
Bothe of a Carpenter / and of his wyf
35
How þ at a Clerk / hath set the wrygħ tes cape