MINIATURIST, English
(active c. 1400 in London)

Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

c. 1400
Manuscript (Ms. 61)
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

This miniature forms the frontispiece to a manuscript of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde of the very beginning of the fifteenth century. It shows Chaucer himself in a pulpit in the centre reciting his verse in the open air to a party of aristocrats sitting and standing in a glade beside a fantastic Gothic castle.