Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The Ellesmere Chaucer is a beautiful and elaborately decorated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Created between 1400 and 1410, it contains what is believed to be a portrait of Chaucer as well as miniature paintings of twenty-two of the fictional pilgrims who tell stories in order to enliven the journey from London to Canterbury. The manuscript is in excellent condition partly because it was undisturbed for about three centuries in the library of Sir Thomas Egerton (later Baron Ellesmere) and his family. See Digital Scriptorium for full description.
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A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
656664
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A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess; and other stories.
623356
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First illustrated edition of Tasso's epic poem, a fictionalized retelling of the First Crusade in which Christian knights battle Muslims for the liberation of Jerusalem.
143579
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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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A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
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