Le Morte d’Arthur: Credo ReferenceBeside Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Le Morte Darthur is perhaps the most enduringly popular of all English texts written in the Middle Ages, and it is certainly the most famous of all English treatments of Arthurian legend. Only one manuscript of the text survives (the “Winchester Manuscript”), copied sometime before 1483, after Malory's death in 1471, but the first printer in England, William Caxton, produced an edition in 1485, which formed the basis of nearly all subsequent editions that were to appear through the first half of the 20th century.