Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England

by Mooney, Linne R.

• ISBN13: 9781903153246
• ISBN10: 1903153247
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-16
• Publisher: York Medieval Pr

Summary

"One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. The thirteen essays in this volume discuss aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late medieval England, focusing particularly on vernacular manuscripts of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries." "This binary focus on secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of production and dissemination, and considerably expands current knowledge of regional and metropolitan book production in the period before printing."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Designing the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's Early Copyists
'Chaucer's Scribe', Adam and the Hengwrt Project	p. 11
The Trinity Gower D Scribe's Two Canterbury Tales Manuscripts Revisited	p. 41
Corrected Mistakes in Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27	p. 61
Designing Devotion: Individual and Institutional
Late Medieval Efforts at Standardization and Reform in the Sarum Lessons for Saints' Days	p. 91
Evolution of a Manuscript: The Pavement Hours	p. 118
Singing from the Same Hymn-Sheet: Two Bridgettine Manuscripts	p. 139
'Secundum originale examinatum': The Refashioning of a Benedictine Historical Manuscript	p. 161
Development and Distribution: Mapping Manuscripts and Texts
Locating Scribal Activity in Late Medieval London	p. 183
What do the Numbers Mean? Observations on Some Patterns of Middle English Manuscript Transmission	p. 205
The Middle English Prose Brut and the Possibilities of Cultural Mapping	p. 245
Mapping Manuscripts and Readers of Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God	p. 261
Yorkshire Manuscripts of the Speculum Vitae	p. 279
Vernacular Herbals: A Growth Industry in Late Medieval England	p. 292
Index of Manuscripts	p. 309
General Index	p. 319
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