"The 'Hengwrt Chaucer' (Peniarth MS 392D) is undoubtedly one of the greatest treasures of the National Library of Wales and one of the best known outside Wales. The Welsh associations of this early and important manuscript of the Canterbury Tales reflect a common phenomenon in Welsh cultural history. From the later Middle Ages onwards English manuscripts were read, owned, copied and much prized in Wales and by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it is common to find evidence of Welsh ownership of manuscripts in English."
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