Journal of the Early Book Society For the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History

by Driver, Martha W.; Blake, N.F; Boffey, Julia; Conlan, J.P; Hieatt, Constance B.; Kelly, Stephen; King, Pamela M.; Hussey, Stanley; Leo, Domenic J.; Marx, William; Mullaly, Evelyn; Nichols, Ann Eljenholm; Orth, Myra Dickman; Phillips, Helen; Powell, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780944473351
• ISBN10: 0944473350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-11
• Publisher: University Publishing Association

Summary

The annual Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History is published by Pace University Press. The greater part of each volume is devoted to four or five substantial essays on the history of the book, with emphasis on the period of transmission from manuscript to print.

Table of Contents

Articles
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 21608 And the Middle English Prose Brut	1	(16)
William Marx
Dedicating Women: MS Culture in the French Renaissance, The Cases of Catherine d'Amboise and Anne de Graville	17	(31)
Myra Dickman Orth
What Caxton Did to the Festival	48	(29)
Susan Powell
Noble Boke of Festes Ryalle and Cokery and its Relationship to Two Analogous Manuscripts	77	(18)
Constance B. Hieatt
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales	95	(27)
N.F. Blake
Editing for the Millennium	122	(12)
Stanley Hussey
Note bene
Brief Notes on Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Oon of Foure: The Marginalia of Bodley 978	134	(6)
Ann Eljenholm Nichols
The Pastedowns in Coventry Record Office Accession 11/2, the Coventry Weavers' Pageant	140	(3)
Pamela M. King
Descriptive Reviews
Julia Boffey
Richard Beadle
A. J. Piper
The Politics of Fifteenth-Century England: John Vale's Book	143	(6)
Julia Boffey
Joyce Coleman, Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France	149	(2)
J. P. Conlan
John B. Friedman, Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages	151	(2)
J. P. Conlan
Mary-Jo Arn, Medieval Food and Drink	153	(1)
Evelyn Mullaly
Roger Wieck, Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art	154	(3)
Domenic J. Leo
Mary-Jo Arn, Fortune's Stabilnes: Charles of Orleans's English. Book of Love. A Critical Edition	157	(4)
Helen Phillips
Burt Kimmelman, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona	161	(2)
Stephen Kelly
Notes on Libraries and Collections	163	(3)
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
The John Rylands Library, Manchester
Archbiship Marsh's Library, Dublin
Martha W. Driver
About the Authors	166