Merthyr Mawr manuscript of Canterbury Tales,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 11903D.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004924552
  • Dates of Creation
    • [20 cent., first ¼].
  • Language of Material
    • English Welsh English, Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • Contact NLW for more information.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Photostat facsimiles and photographs of the Merthyr Mawr fragment of The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, being three imperfect folios from an early fifteenth century text of the Nonnes Preestes Tale. The three folios originally contained II. [15]-94, [253]-332, and [417]-96 of the text. Among later marginal additions are couplets in strict metres by Tudur Aled.

Access Information

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Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11903D.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

Archivist's Note

November 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);

Conditions Governing Use

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Location of Originals

( The original folios are inset in a copy of J. Davies: . . . Dictionarium Duplex . . . (Londini, 1632), deposited in the National Library of Wales by the Reverend L. C. Simons, M.A., Merthyr Mawr Rectory, Glamorgan, in 1938 and now designated N.L.W. Deposited MS. 352.

Bibliography

For a fuller description of the original folios see John M. Manley and Edith Rickert: The Text of the Canterbury Tales (Chicago, 1940), vol. I, pp. 361-4.

Additional Information

Published

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