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.
Beryn.; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, editor.; Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896. Merchant and the rogues : French original and three Asiatic versions of the Tale of Beryn.; Boswell-Stone, W. G. (Walter George), 1845-1904, editor.; Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894, editor.; Bricaire de La Dixmerie, Nicolas, 1731-1791, translator.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Pardoner's tale.
1887
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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.
Author
Beryn.
Uniform Title
Histoire du Chevalier Berinus. English (Middle English)
Alternate Title
Merchant's second tale.
Berinus (Romances)
Berinus (Romances)
Portion of Title
Merry adventure of the pardoner with a tapster at Canterbury
Published
London : Publisht for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & Company, 1887.
Language
English
Language Note
English and Middle English.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded)) : illustrations, maps, folded plan.
Note
Issued in two parts, 1876-87; includes notes by F.J. Vipan.
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. 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.
Reissued in 1909 with new title page as Extra series, no. 5, Early English Text Society.
Pages 200a and 200b inserted after p. 200.
Includes index.
"Correction."--Page xii, 1st count.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
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. 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.
Reissued in 1909 with new title page as Extra series, no. 5, Early English Text Society.
Pages 200a and 200b inserted after p. 200.
Includes index.
"Correction."--Page xii, 1st count.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, editor.
Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896. Merchant and the rogues : French original and three Asiatic versions of the Tale of Beryn.
Boswell-Stone, W. G. (Walter George), 1845-1904, editor.
Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894, editor.
Bricaire de La Dixmerie, Nicolas, 1731-1791, translator.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Pardoner's tale.
Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896. Merchant and the rogues : French original and three Asiatic versions of the Tale of Beryn.
Boswell-Stone, W. G. (Walter George), 1845-1904, editor.
Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894, editor.
Bricaire de La Dixmerie, Nicolas, 1731-1791, translator.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Pardoner's tale.
Series
Supplementary Canterbury tales
Chaucer Society publications. Second series ; 17, 24.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
Chaucer Society publications. Second series ; 17, 24.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
Includes
Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896. Merchant and the rogues : French original and three Asiatic versions of the Tale of Beryn.
Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894, editor.
Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894, editor.
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Prologue : The merry adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury
The tale of Beryn
The merchant and the rogues : English abstract of the French original and Asiatic versions of the Tale of Beryn / by W.C. Clouston.
The tale of Beryn
The merchant and the rogues : English abstract of the French original and Asiatic versions of the Tale of Beryn / by W.C. Clouston.