Summary of Anthony G. Cains's Report on the Preparation of the Ellesmere Manuscript for the New Facsimile, the Repair (and History of Repair) of the Manuscript, and Its Rebinding

Author / Editor
Woodward, Daniel,and Maria Fredericks.

Title
Summary of Anthony G. Cains's Report on the Preparation of the Ellesmere Manuscript for the New Facsimile, the Repair (and History of Repair) of the Manuscript, and Its Rebinding

Published
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995): pp. 29-39.

Physical Description
3 b&w figs.; 8 b&w photos.

Description
Summarizes the operations and observations attendant upon restoring, photographing, and rebinding Ellesmere during preparation of the new facsimile.
Considers conservation necessary for the photography, new discoveries concerning the history of the manuscript and of its two bindings, repairs made during the present rebinding,and the process of rebinding the manuscript in an "early-fifteenth-century-English-style."

Contributor
Fredericks, Maria.

Alternative Title
The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.