Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms /

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms / / Jessica Brantley.

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the...

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Brantley, Jessica,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Material Texts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction
  • The Anatomy of the Medieval Manuscript
  • 1. The Writing Surface
  • 2. Writing
  • 3. Decoration and Illustration
  • 4. Bindings and the Shape of the Book
  • 5. A Template for Manuscript Description
  • Case Studies: A Selection of English Literary Manuscripts
  • Introduction
  • Literature: The Moore Bede (Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People and Other Items) Cambridge, University Library MS Kk.5.16
  • Afterlives: The Nowell Codex (Beowulf and Other Items) London, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xv, ff. 94r–209v
  • Ownership St. Albans Psalter Hildesheim, Dombibliothek Hildesheim MS St. God. 1
  • Language: Orrm, The Orrmulum Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Junius 1
  • Miscellaneity: Trilingual Miscellany London, British Library MS Harley 2253
  • Geography: Roman d’Alexandre and Other Items Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 264
  • Authorship: The Gawain Manuscript (Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) London, British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x/2
  • Writing: The Ellesmere Chaucer (Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales) San Marino, CA, Huntington Library MS EL 26 C 9
  • Editing: William Langland, Piers Plowman; John Mandeville, Mandeville’s Travels; Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; and Other Items San Marino, CA, Huntington Library MS HM 114
  • Mediation: The Book of Margery Kempe London, British Library MS Additional 61823
  • Performance: N-Town Plays London, British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D.viii
  • GLOSSARY
  • PRIMARY WORKS CITED
  • SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER R EADING
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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