Hengwrt manuscript
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The Hengwrt manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. There is another early manuscript of the text, and written close in date, called the Ellesmere manuscript, and they are believed to be by the same scribe, though the Ellesmere manuscript has much more elaborate illustrations. Lynn Moody believes she has recently identified the scribe as Adam Pinkhurst, the same Adam to which Chaucer directs a poem. There is a digital facsimile of the whole Hengwrt manuscript, edited by Estelle Stubbs at part of the Canterbury Tales Project: specimen pages from this can be seen online.