Middle English manuscripts and their legacies : : a volume in honour of Ian Doyle / / edited by Corinne Saunders ; Richard Lawrie ; with Laurie Atkinson.

• Superior document: Library of the written word, volume 102
• TeilnehmendeR: Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-; Lawrie, Richard,; Atkinson, Laurie,; Doyle, A. I. 1925-2018,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; 102.; Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"This volume celebrates and extends the extraordinary and transformative work of Ian Doyle on medieval manuscripts and their legacies. Eighteen original contributions by eminent international scholars of manuscript studies and history of the book present new research on textual issues, manuscript preservation and circulation, manuscripts and print, and the afterlives of manuscripts. Essays adopt the multi-faceted and nuanced approaches to manuscript studies and history of the book characteristic of Ian Doyle's work, taking up topics to which his research has drawn attention, extending his studies of particular manuscripts, scribes and networks, and exploring his remarkable contributions to the field. Contributors are: Ralph Hanna, Susan Powell, Julia Boffey, David Rundle, James Willoughby, Carol Meale, Martha Driver, William Marx, Veronica O'Mara, Richard Gameson, Kathleen Scott, Margaret Connolly, Richard Beadle, A. S. G. Edwards, Elizabeth Rainey, Pamela Robinson, Toshi Takamiya, Linne Mooney, and Derek Pearsall"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Manuscript and Text -- Richard Rolle's 'Valde Intimus Socius': A Search for William Stoups / Ralph Hanna -- Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 3540: The Manuscript and Its Provenance / Susan Powell -- Chaucer in Small Parcels: Odd Texts of Chaucer's Short Poems, and Their Manuscript Contexts / Julia Boffey -- Part 2. Medieval Preservations -- Our Imperfect Knowledge: John Dygon and Joanna Greenwood versus Andrew Holes / David Rundle -- John Erghome and the Library of the Austin Friars of York / James Willoughby -- The Trevelyan Archive: An Introduction to the Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries / Carol M. Meale -- Part 3. Manuscripts in Print -- There and Back Again: Manuscripts after Printing / Martha W. Driver -- John Warrin's Book and the English Catholic Community / William Marx -- Unearthing the History of an Early Printed Sermon: John Fisher and St John's College, Cambridge / Veronica O'Mara -- Part 4. The Afterlives of Manuscripts -- 'Pope's Chaucer' / Richard Gameson -- An English Heraldic Artist: Henry VII's Man or Studio Artist? / Kathleen L. Scott -- Three Medieval Sermons and Their Victorian Printer: Charles Clark and the Dismembering of John Rylands MS English 109 / Margaret Connolly -- Bradshaw, Durham, and Doyle / Richard Beadle -- Part 5. Manuscripts and the Work of Ian Doyle -- Ian Doyle at Cambridge / A.S.G. Edwards -- Ian Doyle in Durham / Elizabeth Rainey -- Ian Doyle as a Palaeographer / Pamela Robinson -- An Homage to Ian Doyle from a Former Student / Toshiyuki Takamiya.