The tale of Beryn,
with a prologue of the merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a tapster at Canterbury.
Re-edited from the Duke of Northumberland's unique ms. by F. J. Furnivall & W. G. Stone. With English abstract of French original and Asiatic versions of the tale, by W. A. Clouston; plans of Canterbury in 1588, and the road thither from London in 1675, &c.
Description
- Related Names
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Bricaire de La Dixmerie, Nicolas, 1731-1791.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894.
Boswell-Stone, W. G. (Walter George), 1845-1904.
Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896.
Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, ed.
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London, Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1887.
- Note
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Reissued in 1909 with new t.-p. as Extra series, no. 5. Early English Text Society.
A continuation of the Canterbury tales, "obviously by a later hand," first printed by Urry in the 1721 Chaucer, as the "Merchant's second tale," and included in several later editions; but from the first generally regarded as spurious. The tale is identical with the first part of a French prose romance: L'histoire du chavalier Berinus. The English abstract of the original has title: The merchant and the rogues. It is a free translation from the abstract by Bricaire de la Dixmerie in "Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque," Paris, t. VIII, p. 225-227.
Issued in two parts, 1876-87; includes notes by F. J. Vipan.
At head of title: Supplementary Canterbury tales. 1.
- Physical Description
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xii, 238 (i.e. 240) p.
3 plans (2 fold.)
23 cm.
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