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Manuscript name and Mosser link

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 141 [s.c. 14635]. Mosser: Ra1.

Original construction

27 quires of 8 (216 folios), and an additional unknown number of quires at the end.

Missing folios

The first five quires (folios 1-40), quire 26 (folios 201-208), and an unknown number of quires at the end are missing. The second leaf is missing from the ninth quire (folio 66); the first four leaves from the 21st quire (folios 161-164); the inner bifolium 4.5 from the 23rd quire (folios 180-181); and the inner four leaves (two bifolio 3.6, 4.5?) from the last quire (folios 211-214). The last surviving quire breaks off at MA 36, with a catchword.

Absent text corresponding to the missing folio

GP, KT 1-1708 (folios 1-40; approx 62 lines a folio); RE 241-304 (folio 66); MO 245-411 (folios 161-164); WBP 693-820 (folios 180-181); SU 359-end, NP 1-255 (folios 201-208, c. 228+255 lines, likely including the short form of L30 with 62 lines a folio accommodating c. 500 lines); NP 385-end, L36 1-13 (folios 211-214, c. 254 lines; approx 63 lines a folio).

Notes

Abbreviation of TM on 137v; rearrangement of text in 143r-144r, including repetition of 395-415.

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

Traditional (Mosser)	New CT foliation
1-25	41-65
26-119	67-160
120-134	165-179
135-153	182-200
154-155	209-210
156-157	215-216