Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th birthday

by Simon Horobin (Editor), Linne R Mooney (Editor), Ad Putter (Contribution by), Carrie Griffin (Contribution by), Eric Gerald Stanley (Contribution by)

Overview

Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators.

This exciting collection of essays is centred on late medieval English manuscripts and their texts. It offers new insights into the works of canonical literary writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Walter Hilton and Nicholas Love, as well as lesser-known texts and manuscripts. It also considers medieval books, their producers, readers, and collectors. It is thus a fitting tribute to one the foremost scholars of the history of the book, Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya, whom it honours.

Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford; Linne Mooney is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Contributors: Timothy Graham, Richard Firth Green, Carrie Griffin, Gareth Griffith, Phillipa Hardman, John Hirsh, Simon Horobin, Terry Jones, Takako Kato, Linne R. Mooney, Mary Morse, James J. Murphy, Natalia Petrovskaia, Susan Powell, Ad Putter, Michael G. Sargent, Eric Stanley, Mayumi Taguchi, Isamu Takahashi, Satoko Tokunaga, R.F. Yeager

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903153536
Publisher:	BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date:	07/17/2014
Series:	ISSN , #6
Pages:	359
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Reader in Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

List of Contributors xii

Acknowledgements xiii

Abbreviations xiv

Preface Linne R. Mooney xv

Chaucer, Gower and Langland

The Early History of the Scriveners' Company Common Paper and its So-Called 'Oaths' Richard Firth Green 1

Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 201 and its Copy of Piers Plowman Simon Horobin 21

Did John Gower Rededicate his Confessio Amantis before Henry IV's Usurpation? Terry Jones 40

Le Songe Vert, BL Add. MS 34114 (the Spalding Manuscript), Bibliothèque de la ville de Clermont, MS 249 and John Gower R. F. Yeager 75

Lyrics and Romances

Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 33: Thoughts on Reading a Work in Progress Phillipa Hardman 88

The Rawlinson Lyrics: Context, Memory and Performance John C. Hirsh 104

Linguistic Boundaries in Multilingual Miscellanies: The Case of Middle English Romance Gareth Griffith Ad Putter 116

What Six Unalike Lyrics in British Library MS Harley 2253 Have Alike in Manuscript Layout Eric Stanley 125

Devotional Writings

Evidence for the Licensing of Books from Arundel to Cromwell Susan Powell 134

Bishops, Patrons, Mystics and Manuscripts: Walter Hilton, Nicholas Love and the Arundel and Holland Connections Michael G. Sargent 159

The Choice and Arrangement of Texts in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125: A Tentative Narrative about its Material History Mayumi Taguchi 177

'Thys moche more ys oure lady mary longe': Takamiya MS 56 and the English Birth Girdle Tradition Mary Morse 199

Owners and Users of Medieval Books

Bookish Types: Some Post-Medieval Owners, Borrowers and Lenders of the Manuscripts of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy Carrie Griffin 220

Laurentius Guglielmus Traversagnus and the Genesis of Vaticana Codex Lat. 11441, with Remarks on Bodleian MS Laud Lat. 61 James J. Murphy 241

The Travels of a Quire from the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First: The Case of Rawlinson B 484, fols. 1-6 Natalia I. Petrovskaia 250

William Elstob's Planned Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Laws: A Remnant in the Takamiya Collection Timothy Graham 268

A Tribute to Proeessor Takamiya

Gutenberg Meets Digitization: The Path of a Digital Ambassador Takako Kato Satoko Tokunaga 297

A Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya Isamu Takahashi, with the assistance of Ryoko Nakano, updated by Satoko Tokunaga 306

Index of Manuscripts 319

General Index 323

Tabula Gratulatoria 333