Sir Thomas Malory : The Morte Darthur

Malory completed his Morte Darthur before March 1470. The manuscript is lost, but the two most important surviving witnesses to its text were both produced shortly afterwards: Caxton's edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have existed around 1480 but lost until 1934. All major modern scholarly editions have favoured one of these to the point of preserving corrigible error. The present edition is based on the Winchester manuscript, but treats it merely as the most important single piece of evidence for what Malory intended, and the default text unless other readings are more probable.