Assertion: ellesmere manuscript | /r/HasProperty | important source
Facets:
value: for efforts
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: It is seen as an important source for efforts to reconstruct Chaucer's original text and intentions, though John M. Manly and Edith Rickert in their Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940) noted that whoever edited the manuscript probably made substantial revisions, tried to regularise spelling, and put the individual Tales into a smoothly running order.