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Chaucer
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Print shows Geoffrey Chaucer, on the far left, riding a dark horse, and 29 pilgrims departing the Tabard Inn in Southwark for a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The pilgrims are identified, from left to right, as "Reeve, Chaucer, Clerk of Oxenford, Cook, Miller, Wife of Bath, Merchant, Parson, Man of Law, Plowman, Physician, Franklin, 2 Citizens, Shipman, The Host, Sompnour, Manciple, Pardoner, Monk, Friar, a Citizen, Lady Abbess, Nun, 3 Priests, Squires Yeoman, Knight, [and] Squire."
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