The Ellesmere Miniatures as Illustrations of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Stevens, Martin.

Title
The Ellesmere Miniatures as Illustrations of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Studies in Iconography 7-8 (1981-82): 113-34.

Description
The Ellesmere miniatures recreate the word pictures by Chaucer in the text, but the only miniature that is truly lifelike is that of Chaucer himself.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.