Middle English manuscripts and their legacies : a volume in honour of Ian Doyle
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Middle English manuscripts and their legacies : a volume in honour of Ian Doyle
(Library of the written word, v. 102 . The manuscript world ; v. 14)
Brill, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Corinne Saunders and Richard Lawrie
part 1: Manuscript and Text
1 Richard Rolle's 'Valde Intimus Socius': A Search for William Stoups
Ralph Hanna
2 Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 3540: The Manuscript and Its Provenance
Susan Powell
3 Chaucer in Small Parcels: Odd Texts of Chaucer's Short Poems, and Their Manuscript Contexts
Julia Boffey
part 2: Medieval Preservations
4 Our Imperfect Knowledge: John Dygon and Joanna Greenwood versus Andrew Holes
David Rundle
5 John Erghome and the Library of the Austin Friars of York
James Willoughby
6 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
7 There and Back Again: Manuscripts after Printing
Martha W. Driver
8 John Warrin's Book and the English Catholic Community
William Marx
9 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
10 'Pope's Chaucer'
Richard Gameson
11 An English Heraldic Artist: Henry VII's Man or Studio Artist?
Kathleen L. Scott
12 Three Medieval Sermons and Their Victorian Printer: Charles Clark and the Dismembering of John Rylands MS English 109
Margaret Connolly
13 Bradshaw, Durham, and Doyle
Richard Beadle
part 5: Manuscripts and the Work of Ian Doyle
14 Ian Doyle at Cambridge
A.S.G. Edwards
15 Ian Doyle in Durham
Elizabeth Rainey
16 Ian Doyle as a Palaeographer
Pamela Robinson
17 An Homage to Ian Doyle from a Former Student
Toshiyuki Takamiya
Afterword
Linne Mooney and Derek Pearsall
A List of the Publications of A.I. Doyle
Elizabeth Rainey with the assistance of A.S.G. Edwards
Index
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