Of The Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, Their Scribes and Readers: Essays Presented to M.B. Parkes

by Pamela Robinson (Editor), Rivkah Zim (Editor)

A collection of essays on medieval manuscripts presented to the leading palaeographer, Malcolm Parkes. The essays look at authorship, textual theory, some biographies of medieval writers and the development of the manuscript.

Foreword / Ruth J. Dean --
Introduction / Stephen Wall, Armando Petrucci and Linda Voigts [and others] --
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. 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. Testimonye of Verye Ancient Tyme? Some Manuscript Models for the Parkerian Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs / Peter J. Lucas.

324 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London.