• The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early-15th-century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. It...
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    early copy of Chaucer also known as the "Hengwrt Chaucer" or, misleadingly, the "Hengwrt Manuscript". These manuscripts remained in the Hengwrt library for...
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    Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/ CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales....
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    as the Hengwrt Chaucer. Black Book of Carmarthen Black Book of Chirk White Book of Rhydderch Book of Taliesin Beunans Meriasek Hengwrt Chaucer Peniarth...
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    scribe who wrote the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Tales. The scribe has been identified as Adam Pinkhurst, a man employed by Chaucer himself; however, the...
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer. In 2004, Linne Mooney and Simon Horobin published an essay arguing that the scribe of the Ellesmere Chaucer and Hengwrt Chaucer manuscripts...
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  • former US magazine Harry G. Nelson, half of the Roy and HG comedy duo Hengwrt Chaucer or Hg, a manuscript of the Canterbury Tales Masaki Sumitani or HG,...
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  • rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in the fifteenth century and into...
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    a version of the Laws of Hywel Dda from the mid-16th century. The Hengwrt Chaucer (c. 1400–1410), a folio volume of The Canterbury Tales, sometimes attributed...
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    copyist of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts has been identified as a scrivener named Adam Pinkhurst. Since a poem, apparently by Chaucer, identifies...
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    General Prologue is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims travelling...
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  • a period, though this was to disappear from Hengwrt before the end of the 17th century. Hengwrt Chaucer William Maurice (antiquary) The Peniarth Manuscripts...
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  • division of the German Army during World War II MS Peniarth 392D (Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript), an early-15th-century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales...
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    Squire is a fictional character in the framing narrative of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He is squire to (and son of) the Knight and is the narrator...
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  • manuscript, probably made within 20 years of Chaucer's death. Hg (Hengwrt 154 (Peniarth 392D), the Hengwrt manuscript) — Probably the oldest surviving...
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  • was previously published by David Powel's 1584 History of Cambria. Hengwrt Chaucer "In some of his manuscripts he used a Welsh orthography peculiar to...
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  • Bowden that examines historical backgrounds to characters in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales within the context of its General Prologue. Bloomfield...
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    figure in 15th-century Middle English literature, significant for promoting Chaucer as "the father of English literature", and as a poet in his own right....
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    (rediscovery of dialect humour, introducing the Hengwrt manuscript into textual criticism of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales) 1937 Beowulf: The Monsters...
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  • Norman Blake (academic) (category Chaucer scholars)
    on the Hengwrt manuscript. This edition was, at the time, not well received as Blake advocated the significance and importance of the Hengwrt manuscript...
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  • Tales, such as the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts. As well as the Tale of Gamelyn, now thought not to be by Chaucer, it also contains many peculiar...
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    unknown origin. A kite is mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Knight's Tale. The early 15th century Hengwrt manuscript contains the lines: "Ther cam a kyte...
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  • medieval metrical romances. Bown of Hamptoun (1892). In Selections from the Hengwrt manuscripts preserved in the Peniarth library (1876, 1892), Volume II,...
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  • Selections from the Hengwrt mss. preserved in the Peniarth library (1876–1892), Volume II, pp. 437–517. Selections of the Hengwrt–Peniarth manuscripts...
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    Library of Wales (Hengwrt manuscript) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61 (Corpus Troilus) London, British Library, Add MS 35286 (Chaucer, Canterbury Tales)...
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  • Rev. Robert Williams (1810–1881). Also published in Selections from the Hengwrt manuscripts preserved in the Peniarth library (1876), Volume I. The Arthurian...
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  • manuscript, the "Trinity Gower" manuscript, as the scribe of the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales and either both men or the bookseller...
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    precisely when it entered the university's possession, but it was part of the Hengwrt-Peniarth collection when William Wynne catalogued it in 1864. Written on...
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