The making of the Vernon manuscript : the production and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. 1 / edited by Wendy Scase.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scase, Wendy, editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Texts and transitions ; v. 6.

Texts and transitions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernon manuscript.

Manuscripts, English (Middle).

Manuscripts, Medieval--England.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Literary patrons.

History.

Manuscripts--Editing.

Didactic literature, English (Middle).

England.

Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.

Christian literature, English (Middle).

Didactic literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, English.

Manuscripts--Editing--History--To 1500.

Manuscripts.

Literary patrons--England--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

xl, 331 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2013]

Summary:

This volume addresses important questions in late medieval book production and the history of the medieval book through original and substantial studies of one of the most remarkable surviving examples. The Vernon Manuscript, carefully copied and lavishly decorated around 1390-1400 for pious users, is famous as the largest and arguably the most important Middle English anthology. Its sheer size and conservation concerns mean that up to now it has been little studied as a book. The essays in this volume exploit for the first time the mass of new data generated by the Vernon Manuscript Project. Specialists in art history, bibliography, codicology, historical linguistics, and palaeography have been commissioned to interrogate this material from their various disciplinary perspectives. The result is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary volume that sheds new light on an iconic medieval book and on a transitional period of innovation and experimentation in vernacular book production. Book jacket.

Contents:

Codicology, palaeography, and provenance / A.I. Doyle

The scribes of the Vernon manuscript / Simon Horobin

Mapping the language of the Vernon manuscript / Jeremy J. Smith

Editorial politics in the Vernon manuscript / Ryan Perry

Rubrics, opening numbering, and the Vernon table of contents / Wendy Scase

Border artists of the Vernon manuscript / Rebecca Farnham

The miniatures in the Vernon manuscript / Alison Stones

The artistic origins of the Vernon manuscript / Lynda Dennison

The artists of the Vernon initials / Wendy Scase

Division of artists' hands/decoration types

Patronage symbolism and sowlehele ; Some Vernon analogues and their patrons ; The patronage of the Vernon manuscript / Wendy Scase.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782503530468

250353046X

OCLC:

847542485

Publisher Number:

99955160443