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![The beginning of The Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere manuscript.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Chaucer_knight.jpg/420px-Chaucer_knight.jpg)
The Ellesmere manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, held in the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (MS EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant texts of the Tales.