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Until now, he was known only as Adam, a worker whose somewhat sloppy habits often annoyed his master. Through handwriting analysis, an American academic working at Cambridge University has identified the mysterious scribe who wrote the earliest and most authoritative copies of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” as Adam Pinkhurst, the son of a southern English landowner.
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