The tale of Beryn
Subtitle: with a prologue of the merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a tapster at Canterbury
By: 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.
Contributors: Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.; Clouston, W. A. 1843-1896.; Boswell-Stone, W. G. 1845-1904.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Series: Chaucer Society. Publications -- 2d ser., no. 17,24; Publications (Chaucer Society (London, England)) -- no. 17, 24.; Library of English literature -- LEL 10098.
Publisher: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & Co.
Published: 1887
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Canterbury (England); Canterbury (England) -- Description and travel -- Maps
Other titles: Merchant's second tale; Pardoner and the tapster; Berinus.
Work titles: Beryn.
Notes: 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 "Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque," 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.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 10098).