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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.86
 
MS Appellation:Ra4 (Manly and Rickert)
Title:Miscellany
Author:Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate
Contents:Legend of Good Women (fragment in part 3, f113r-119r) Canterbury Tales in part 4 is Clerk's Tale (f156v) and Prioress's Tale (f174v).
Language:English
Date Range:Earliest watermark is 1469 but various internal dating suggests that the texts were copied over a number of years probably up to the end of the century.
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Material:Combination in Book 1; paper in Book 2
No of Folios:1-189
Pagination:Modern foliation
Quiring:Quiring varies according to booklet.
Signatures:Few signatures
Catchwords:No catchwords
Page Size:280 x 190 (ff1-30); 284 x 206 (ff31-189)
Writing Space:30 x 140
Other Names (not owners):Lord William Howard (d. 1640) probably owned the manuscript at some stage as also Knox Ward, Clarenceux King of Arms 1726-41.
Further Information:Manly, John M., and Edith Rickert, eds. The Text of the Canterbury Tales, 1:472-5; M. C. Seymour, Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I.94-5; 150-1. Catal. Codd. Mss. Bibl. Bodl. Macray, W. D., pp. 29-31; Griffiths, J. J. ‘A Re-examination of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C.86.’ Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 219, Band 134 (1982): 381-88.
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