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    The Merthyr Fragment,
    [15 cent., first ¼] /
    Ref:GB 210 NLW MS 21972D [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey.
    Extent:5 ff. (ff. 1-3 original medieval folios; ff. 4-5 paper fragments of [c. 1800]) : Parchment (ff. 1-3), paper (ff. 4-5) ; approx. 270 x 190 mm., written space approx. 210 x 120 mm. (all dimensions approximate, as a result of damage). Daniel Huws states that 'a series of sewing holes can be seen on all three leaves. These holes show that the manuscript was sewn only once and that the binding was on six bands'. On deposit at the the Library in 1937, the leaves were tipped into a printed copy of John Davies, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Dictionarium Duplex (London, 1632). The leaves were removed from the copy, and repaired, sometime before 1940, before being returned loose to the copy. In December 1987, the repair work of circa 1940 was removed, and the leaves encapsulated and filed. They were removed from their sleeves for digitisation in November 2013, and in March 2014 placed within individual glass panels to facilitate future handling, storage and exhibition. The file of 1987 has been retained. Condition: The leaves had decayed before they were pasted into the dictionary; many letters are rubbed away and small holes eaten in the parchment. Edges are decayed. The upper part of each leaf has been badly damaged (and f. 2 cut), so that from 10 to 15 lines are lost wholly or partly
    Language:Middle English
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  • 2
    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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  • 3
    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
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  • 4
    Papers of John Couch Adams
    'The treatise on the astrolabe of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited with notes and illustrations by Andrew Edmund Brae' (London: John Russell Smith, 1870)
    1870
    Ref:GB 275 Adams/Box 45/1
    Location:St John's College Library Special Collections, University of Cambridge
    Extent:ii, 108p, 6 leaves of plates paper
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    Papers of John Couch Adams
    'A treatise on the astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer A.D. 1391. Edited from the earliest MSS by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat' (London: Trubner & Co., 1873)
    1873
    Ref:GB 275 Adams/Box 45/3
    Location:St John's College Library Special Collections, University of Cambridge
    Extent:lxix, 119p, 7 leaves of plates paper
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  • 6
    Transcription of Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Parlement of Foules'
    1870
    Ref:GB 12 MS Add.2794
    Location:Cambridge University Library
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey c1340-1400 (poet and administrator).
    Extent:1 volume(s) 1 Volume paper paper
    Language:English
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