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Published in 1998. John Shirley's importance as a scribe of late
fourteen-and early fifteenth-century vernacular poetry (in
particular the works of Chauncer and Lydgate) has long been
recognised. Not only did Shirley bring these works to the attention
of a wider audience in his own time, but the survival of some if
his manuscripts has perpetuated these texts for future generations
of readers. Indeed, some of these poems are now only known through
his manuscripts. In this meticulously researched survey, Margaret
Connolly makes a thorough examination of all extent documents
relating to Shirley's life and carefully scrutinises the physical
characteristics of his manuscripts. In so doing she dispels many of
the false interpretations that have arisen from speculation about
the nature of Shirley's scribal activities. The book concludes that
there is no evidence to suggest that Shirley acted as a bookseller,
but plenty to indicate that he lent his books extensively. This
book's survey of volumes owned or used by Shirley provides general
insights into the availability and circulation of literary texts in
the fifteenth century. Palaeographers and those with a general
interest in the history of the book will find this studying
fascinating.
Published in 1998. John Shirley's importance as a scribe of late
fourteen-and early fifteenth-century vernacular poetry (in
particular the works of Chauncer and Lydgate) has long been
recognised. Not only did Shirley bring these works to the attention
of a wider audience in his own time, but the survival of some if
his manuscripts has perpetuated these texts for future generations
of readers. Indeed, some of these poems are now only known through
his manuscripts. In this meticulously researched survey, Margaret
Connolly makes a thorough examination of all extent documents
relating to Shirley's life and carefully scrutinises the physical
characteristics of his manuscripts. In so doing she dispels many of
the false interpretations that have arisen from speculation about
the nature of Shirley's scribal activities. The book concludes that
there is no evidence to suggest that Shirley acted as a bookseller,
but plenty to indicate that he lent his books extensively. This
book's survey of volumes owned or used by Shirley provides general
insights into the availability and circulation of literary texts in
the fifteenth century. Palaeographers and those with a general
interest in the history of the book will find this studying
fascinating.
This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval
manuscripts over a long century, 1470-1585, spanning the reigns of
Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who
owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and
professional affiliations in London. These men marked the leaves of
their books with signs of use, allowing their engagement with the
texts contained there to be reconstructed. Through detailed
research, Margaret Connolly reveals the various uses of these old
books: as a repository for family records; as a place to preserve
other texts of a favourite or important nature; as a source of
practical information for the household; and as a professional
manual for the practising lawyer. Investigation of these
family-owned books reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works
of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic
importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.
New essays on late medieval manuscripts highlight the complicated
network of their production and dissemination. One of the most
important developments in medieval English literary studies since
the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. Long regarded
as mere textual repositories, and treated superficially by editors,
manuscripts are now acknowledged as centrally important in the
study of later medieval texts. The essays collected here discuss
aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late
medieval England, with a particular focus on vernacular manuscripts
of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Those in the first half consider material evidence for scribal
decisions about design: these range from analysis of individual
codices to broader discussions of particular types of manuscripts,
both religious and secular. Later essays look at the evidence for
the production and distribution of manuscripts of specific English
texts or types of text. These include the major Middle English
poems The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman, as well as key
religious works such as Love's Mirror, Hilton's Scale of
Perfection, the Speculum Vitae and The Pricke of Conscience, all of
which survive in significant numbers of manuscripts. The comparison
of secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of
production and dissemination, and increases our knowledge of
regional and metropolitan book production in the period before
printing. Contributors: DANIEL W. MOSSER, JACOB THAISEN, TAKAKO
KATO, SHERRY L. REAMES, AMELIA GROUNDS, ALEXANDRA BARRATT, JULIAN
M. LUXFORD, LINNE R. MOONEY, MICHAEL G. SARGENT, JOHNJ. THOMPSON,
MARGARET CONNOLLY, RALPH HANNA, GEORGE R. KEISER.
Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual
culture in all its variety. Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of
Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced
the study of later medieval English book production, particularly
our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her
distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research
on Middle English manuscripts and texts. The thirteen essays
brought together here take a variety of approaches -
palaeographical, codicological, dialectal, textual, art historical
- to the study of the English medieval book and to the varied
environments (professional, administrative, mercantile,
ecclesiastical) where manuscripts were produced and used during the
period 1300-1550. Acknowledging that books and readers are no
respecters of borders, this collection's geographical scope extends
beyond England in the east to Ghent and Flanders, and in the west
to Waterford and the Dublin Pale. Contributors explore manuscripts
containing works by key writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John
Gower, John Wyclif, and Walter Hilton. Major texts whose manuscript
traditions are scrutinized include Speculum Vitae, the Scale of
Perfection, the Canterbury Tales, and Confessio Amantis, along with
a wide range of shorter works such as lyric poems, devotional
texts, and historical chronicles. London book-making activities and
the scribal cultures of other cities and monastic centres all
receive attention, as does the book production of personal
miscellanies. By considering both literary texts and the letters,
charters, and writs that medieval scribes produced, in Latin and
Anglo-French as well as English, this collection celebrates
Professor Mooney's influence on the field and presents a holistic
sense of England's pre-modern textual culture.
This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval
manuscripts over a long century, 1470-1585, spanning the reigns of
Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who
owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and
professional affiliations in London. These men marked the leaves of
their books with signs of use, allowing their engagement with the
texts contained there to be reconstructed. Through detailed
research, Margaret Connolly reveals the various uses of these old
books: as a repository for family records; as a place to preserve
other texts of a favourite or important nature; as a source of
practical information for the household; and as a professional
manual for the practising lawyer. Investigation of these
family-owned books reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works
of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic
importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.
Cambridge University Library is one of Britain's major repositories
of medieval manuscripts. Its two-letter collection (Dd-Oo) includes
just over 1,000 medieval western manuscripts, and amongst these may
be found examples of every type of Middle English prose
composition. Religious works predominate: there are several copies
of the Wycliffite Bible, various sermon cycles, and works by Love,
Hilton and Rolle; there is also a vast number of unattributed
religious works. Secular texts are represented by the works of
Chaucer, Mandeville's Travels, and no fewer than eight copies of
the Brut. The collection is also extremely rich in Middle English
prose writing in the fields of science and information, preserving
medical, gynaecological, veterinary, culinary, alchemical,
mathematical, heraldic and linguistic texts. Altogether the current
handlist covers 207 manuscripts, and indexes more than 1250
separate items. MARGARET CONNOLLY teaches in the School of English
at the University of St Andrews.
The ME Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the
thirteenth-century AN Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of
cultural and linguistic value. As a cycle of sermons addressed to a
lay audience, it offers extensive material for the study of popular
preaching in fourteenth-century England. Four of the six surviving
manuscripts exemplify that variety of fourteenth-century London
language designated "Type II" by M. L. Samuels. Only brief,
unedited extracts or quotations from the Mirror have hitherto
appeared in print; a full critical edition will not appear for many
years. This edition, based on MS Hunterian 250, Glasgow University
Library, one of the "Type II" manuscripts, aims to present a
sizeable sample of the Mirror including the Prologue and a
representative selection of sermons with the Anglo-Norman source
text given in parallel.
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