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The History of the “Percy Folio” (British Library Add. MS. 27879): From Manuscript to Print | Stephen Basdeo

The Percy Folio preserved some of the most important medieval and early modern poems in English literary history. This article traces its journey from Thomas Percy’s eighteenth-century recovery of the manuscript to its long-delayed publication by Furnivall, Hales, and Child in 1868.