Pearl Manuscript
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The Pearl Manuscript, also known as the Gawain manuscript, is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern England in the late 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century. It is one
The Green Knight at Camelot, folio 94v, and the beginning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, folio 95r
The tempting of Sir Gawain by Bertilak's wife, folio 129r
The dreamer sees the maiden, folio 42r.
Pearl's dreamer sleeps, folio 41r.
Pearl (poem)
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Pearl is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the po
Pearl Manuscript
…illustrations. It contains the only surviving copies of four of the masterpieces of medieval English literature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience. It has been described as "one of the greatest manuscript treasures for medieval literature", and "the most famous of all…
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