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    Canterbury Tales Fragment
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 63
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey.
    Extent:1 volume. iv + 2 + iv folios. Dimensions: 272 x 195 mm. A bifolium, leaves 2 and 7 in a quire, if the quire was of 8 leaves. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: quarter-bound in brown morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, for the John Rylands Library
    Language:Middle English
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    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other works
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 113
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey,Brode John.
    Extent:1 volume. v + 190 + ii folios, foliated 1-197 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 297 x 210 mm. Collation: 1-7 24, 8 22. There is a strip of vellum down the gutter in the middle of each quire. Medium: paper, except f. 5, conjoint with the pastedown, and ff. 196-7, a conjoint pair, of which 197 was formerly a pastedown. Binding: medieval binding of brown leather over wooden boards; six bands; five bosses on each cover, now missing; two clasps, missing
    Language:Middle English