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Manuscript name and Mosser link

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 223 [s.c. 14714]. Mosser: Ra3.

Original construction

23 of 12 (276 folios) and two of 8 (the tenth and last quires): 292 folios.

Missing folios

The first seven leaves are missing from the first quire (folios 1-7); the eighth leaf is missing from the sixth quire (folio 68); the last leaf is missing from the tenth quire (folio 116); the last leaf is missing from the eleventh quire (folio 128); the fourth leaf is missing from the thirteenth quire (folio 144); the inner five bifolia 2.11 3.10 4.9 5.8 6.7 are missing from quire 18 (folios 202-211); the sixth and last leaves of quire 25, the last folio in the manuscript (folios 290 and 292).

Added folios

After folio 96, the last leaf of the eighth quire, foliated as 96a.

Absent text corresponding to the missing folio

GP 1-712 (folios 1-7; 172 lines would have taken less than three folios); RE 403-404, L3, CO 1-18 (folio 68); ME 804-872 (folio 128); WBP 673-740 (folio 144); TM 327-798 (folios 202-211); PA 986-end, RT 1007-1012 (folio 290). Folio 291v is blank, as 292 is likely to have been. No text is missing corresponding to folio 116: 115v finishes with the end of the 'Prohemye' of CL, at line 56, marked by an elaborate rubric, with the 'Tale' commencing on the first folio of quire 11, folio 117. This suggests that the scribe planned to begin the new 'tale' with the new quire, as ME commences quire 9. In the case of ME, this meant an extra leaf (96a) had to be added to accommodate the end of SQ; in this case, a leaf has to be removed to avoid a blank leaf between the 'prohemye' and the 'tale' in CL.

Notes

The leaf added at the end of quire 8, 96a, carries up to the end of SQ on the recto, with the verso left blank, preceding L20 and ME on the first leaf of quire 9.

KT 516-601 are omitted on 25v. Bizarrely, L28 is written in the same tennis-fixture format used for TT. Also bizarrely: FK is introduced as the Merchant's Prologue.

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

Traditional (Mosser)	New CT foliation
1-5	6-10
6-13	12-19
14-17	21-24
18-19	34-35
20-21	38-39
22-35	48-61
36-44	63-71
45-52	73-80
53-85	97-129
85a	130
86-89	131-134
90-115	136-161
116-128	168-180
129-136	182-189