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Uniform Title Beryn.

Title The tale of Beryn [microform] : with a prologue of the merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a tapster at Canterbury / re-edited from the Duke of Northumberland's unique ms. by F.J. Furnivall & W.G. Stone ; with English abstract of French original and Asiatic versions of the tale, by W.A. Clouston ; plans of Canterbury in 1588, and the road thither from London in 1675, &c.

Imprint

London : Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trubner & Co., 1887.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets	LEL 10098.	---	Available

Description	xii, 238 (i.e. 240) p. : 3 plans (2 fold.) ; 23 cm.
Series	Chaucer Society. Publications. 2d ser., no. 17,24
	Chaucer Society. [Publications] Second series ; no. 17, 24.
	Library of English literature ; LEL 10098.
Note	At head of title: Supplementary Canterbury tales, 1.
	Issued in two parts, 1876-87; includes notes by F.J. Vipan.
	A continuation of the Canterbury tales, "obviously by a later hand," first printed by Urry in the 1721 Chaucer, as the "Merchant's second tale," and included in several later editions; but from the first generally regarded as spurious. The tale is identical with the first part of a French prose romance: L'histoire du chavalier Berinus. The English abstract of the original has title: The merchant and the rogues. It is a free translation from the abstract by Bricaire de la Dixmerie in "Melanges tires d'une grande bibliotheque," Paris, t. VIII, p. 225-227.
	Reissued in 1909 with new t.p. as Extra series, no. 5, Early English Text Society.
	Master microform held by: LrI.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 10098).
Subject	Canterbury (England)
	Canterbury (England) -- Description -- Maps.
Added Author	Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
	Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896.
	Boswell-Stone, Walter George, 1845-1904.
	Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
Added Title	Berinus.
	Merchant's second tale [microform]
	Pardoner and the tapster [microform]