MSS.

The needless insertions of little words in many of the 15th-century MSS.

This difficulty, in fact, is entirely cleared up by accepting the reading of the majority of the MSS.

The latter gentleman left behind him a large and valuable collection of MSS.

There is further authority; for we actually find helde for holde in five MSS.

Caxton's text is unusually good, and is often superior to that in the existing MSS.