Of the making of books : medieval manuscripts, their scribes and readers : essays presented to M.B. Parkes /

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Imprint:Aldershot, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub. Co., c1997.
Description:xiii, 324 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2756728
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Other authors / contributors:Parkes, M. B. (Malcolm Beckwith)
Robinson, Pamela.
Zim, Rivkah.
ISBN:185928079X (hb : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-306) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ruth J. Dean
  • Introduction / Stephen Wall, Armando Petrucci and Linda Voigts [et al.]
  • 1. Origin and Provenance of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: the Case of Cotton Tiberius A.III / Helmut Gneuss
  • 2. Mixed Blessings: a Twelfth-Century Manuscript from Waverley / Jean F. Preston
  • 3. 'Quaderni simul ligati': Recherches sur les manuscrits en cahiers / Jean Vezin
  • 4. A Twelfth-Century Scriptrix from Nunnaminster / P. R. Robinson
  • 5. Stephen Dodesham of Witham and Sheen / A. I. Doyle
  • 6. Geoffrey Spirleng (c.1426-c.1494): a Scribe of the Canterbury Tales in his Time / Richard Beadle
  • 7. A Testimonye of Verye Ancient Tyme? Some Manuscript Models for the Parkerian Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs / Peter J. Lucas
  • 8. The Patristic Content of English Book Collections in the Eleventh Century: Towards a Continental Perspective / Teresa Webber
  • 9. Medieval Hypertext: Image and Text from York Minster / Vincent Gillespie
  • 10. History and Legend at Kirkstall in the Fifteenth Century / Jeanne E. Krochalis
  • 11. The Author's Two Bodies? Authority and Fallibility in Late-Medieval Textual Theory / A. J. Minnis
  • 12. 'Mind in Character': Ancient and Medieval Ideas about the Status of the Autograph as an Expression of Personality / David Ganz
  • A Bibliography of the Published Writings of M. B. Parkes / Rivkah Zim.