id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1881 Pearl (poem) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2894 271 72 The original manuscript is known in academic circles as Cotton Nero A.x, following a naming system used by one of its owners, Robert Cotton, a collector of Medieval English texts.[2] Before the manuscript came into Cotton's possession, it was in the library of Henry Savile of Bank in Yorkshire.[3] Little is known about its previous ownership, and until 1824, when the manuscript was introduced to the academic community in a second edition of Thomas Warton's History edited by Richard Price, it was almost entirely unknown.[4][5] Now held in the British Library, it has been dated to the late 14th century, so the poet was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, though it is highly unlikely that they ever met.[6] The three other works found in the same manuscript as Pearl (commonly known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness or Purity) are often considered to be written by the same author. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1881.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1881.txt