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A collection of essays on medieval manuscripts presented to the leading palaeographer, Malcolm Parkes. The essays look at authorship, textual theory, some biographies of medieval writers and the development of the manuscript.
Contents
Part I Of the making of books and of their provenancesprovenance of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts - the case of Cotton Tiberius A.III, Helmut Gneuss; mixed blessings - a 12th century manuscript from Waverley, Jean F. Preston; "Quaderni simul ligati" - recherches sur les manuscrits en cahiers, Jean Vezin. Part II Scribes and scripts: a 12th century scriptix from Nunnaminster, P.R. Robinson; Stephen Dodesham of Witham and Sheen, A.I. Doyle; Geoffrey Spirling (c.1426 - c.1494) - a scribe of the "Canterbury Tales" in his time, Richard Beadle; A testimonye of verye ancient tyme? - Some manuscript models for the Parkerian Anglo-Saxon type-designs, Peter J. Lucas. Part III Readers as makers of text and traditions: the patristic content of English book collections in the 11th century - towards a continental perspective, Theresa Webber; medieval hypertext - image and text from York Minster, Vincent Gillespie; history and legend a Kirkstall in the 15th century, Jeanne E. Krochalis. Part IV Ideas of authors and authorities: the author's two bodies? Authority and fallibility in late-medieval textual theory, A.J. Minnis; "Mind in Character" - ancient and medieval ideas about the status os the autographs as an expression of personality, David Ganz.
