Assertion: ellesmere manuscript | /r/ObjectUse | used as the base text
Facets:
value: for many years
type: TEMPORAL
value: with variants
type: OTHER
value: up until this point
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Up until this point the Ellesmere manuscript had been used as the 'base text' by several editions, such as that of W. W. Skeat, with variants checked against British Library, Harley MS.
text: The lavishly illustrated Ellesmere manuscript, which for many years, following the examples of the editor Frederick Furnivall and W. W. Skeat, was used as the base text for more modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, is now thought to have been written by the same scribe, though the arrangement of the individual tales in the two manuscripts varies widely.