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The second of the two-volume set describes the 56 extant copies and the fragments of otherwise lost copies of the 14th-century Middle English opus. The most recent complete catalogue was published in 1940. Since then knowledge about them has increased considerably because of paleographical analyses,

An edition of the earliest and most important English translation of the French text of Mandeville's Travels, the widely influential collection of travellers' tales. This volume also contains a full commentary with new information about the sources. Its name derives from the loss of the second quire in the Insular manuscript, or its antecedent, from which it was translated. Despite this loss, the Defective Version established itself as the dom...