Opening up Middle English Manuscripts : Literary and Visual Approaches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.

Contributor:

Hilmo, Maidie.

Olson, Linda.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Glossary of Key Manuscript Terminology

Note on Transcriptions and Transcription Symbols

THE FRONT PLATES: Transcriptions, Scripts, and Descriptive Analysis for Learning to Read Literary Texts on the Manuscript Page

How to Transcribe Middle English

Introduction: The Order of the Plates and Scripts Most Commonly Found in Middle English Literary Texts

Introduction

1. The Land of Cokaygne

2. “Ihesu Swete”

3. The Pricke of Conscience

4. Chaucer’s “Cook’s Tale

5. Chaucer’s “Cook’s Tale”

6. Omnis plantacio (formerly The Clergy May Not Hold Property)

7. Hoccleve ‘s “Chanceon to Somer” and Envoy to Regiment des Princes

8. Langland, Piers Plowman

9. Sir Degrevant

10. Wisdom

Chapter 1. Major Middle English Poets and Manuscript Studies, 1300–1450

Chapter 2. Romancing the Book: Manuscripts for “Euerich Inglische”

Chapter 3. The Power of Images in the Auchinleck, Vernon, Pearl, and Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts

Chapter 4. Professional Readers at Work: Annotators, Editors, and Correctors in Middle English Literary Texts

Chapter 5. Illuminating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Portraits of the Author and Selected Pilgrim Authors

Chapter 6. “Swete Cordyall” of “Lytterature”: Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister

References Cited

Illustration Credits

Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula

General Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501779954

1501779958

OCLC:

1427667073