Excerpt from The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale From the Canterbury Tales The first record of. The name of Geoffrey Chaucer was dis covered in 1866, by Mr. E. A. Bond, the present Keeper of the mss. In the British Museum, on two parchment leaves which had, some three or four centuries ago, been pasted down to the covers of an ancient manuscript, purchased a few years before 1866 by the British Museum, and now known as the Additional ms. 1 32. These leaves are fragments of a Household Account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.