The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historical Documents

Author / Editor
Hallam, Elizabeth, and Andrew Prescott, eds.

Title
The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historical Documents

Published
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Physical Description
x, 150 pp.; color illus.

Description
Photographic reproductions of records from British cultural history, arranged chronologically from the departure of the Romans to late-modern multi-culturalism. Reproduces in color (p. 31) three images that pertain to Chaucer: a page from the Hengwrt manuscript (beginning of SumT), a portrait of the Chaucer from an historiated initial in British Library MS Lansdowne 851, and the 1385 petition "requesting permission for Chaucer to appoint a deputy" as customs officer (Public Records Office C 81/1394/87).

Contributor
Prescott, Andrew, ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Life