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Manuscript name and Mosser link

London, British Library Harley MS 1239. Mosser: Ha1.

Original construction

Fourteen regular quires of eight: 112 folios.

Missing folios

Folios 4 and 5 are missing from quire 1; folio 88 from quire 11; the bifolium 107.110 from quire 14.

Added folios

None.

Absent text corresponding to the missing folios

ML 677-800 (folio 88; a blank folio is bound in its place); FK 415-533 (folio 107); FK 745-846 (folio 110).

Notes

The manuscript begins with a full text of Troilus and Criseyde, folios 1r-64v. The Knight's Tale begins a new quire on 65r (commencing at KT 35), and is followed with another four of the Canterbury Tales. ML starts on 82v (=80v; not 88r as DWM asserts); WBT on 91r (DWM 88r); CL (with L13 following) on 94r; FK on 104r at line 81. A six-line passage is inserted between the end of CL and line 81 of FK, by way of introducing FK.

Note the absence of some linking text: KT begins at 35; L7 is missing; WBT and not WBP; CL begins at 57.

Concordance of the traditional foliation (as reported by Mosser) and the new foliation

Traditional (Mosser)	New CT foliation
63-85	65-87
86-103	89-106
104	108