Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/June 2009

The beginning of The Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere manuscript.
The beginning of The Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere manuscript.

The Ellesmere manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, held in the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (MS EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant texts of the Tales.