Cotton Nero A.x. (article 3) is the only known manuscript containing the poems Pearl, Cleanness, Patience , and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . The goals of the project are first to make available high-quality digital photographs of the entire manuscript; second to transcribe the entire manuscript at the highest possible level of accuracy and detail; and finally to produce editions of each of the individual poems in which the digital facsimiles and the new transcriptions serve as a basis for a new critica
This site will grow with the project. Currently, we provide a full transcription of the manuscript together with a description of the transcription scheme, an on-line bibliography of works about the manuscript or any of the poems contained in it, and a diplomatic edition of Cleanness . The high definition manuscript images are freely available at gawain.ucalgary.ca .
This is a temporary front page for gawain-ms.ca, the Cotton Nero A.x. Project site. Content will be added and linked here over the next few days.