Image: Chauser knight from prologue
Description: Woodcut from 15th century. From General Prologue page of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The text reads (approximately): And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan As woodcuts were expensive, the same image was reused to illustrate Knight's Tale in an edition printed by Richard Pynson in London, 1492. Scans from University of Glasgow.
Title: Chauser knight from prologue
Credit: Scan from Stephen Turnbull Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights, published by Osprey in 2003, page 15.
Author: Unknown 15th century artist
Permission: Public domain
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