Title Medieval English manuscripts and literary forms / Jessica Brantley

Edition First edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Series Material texts Material texts. Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Reading Medieval Books: Manuscript Studies in the Twenty-First Century -- Reading Medieval Texts: Chaucer's "Adam Scriveyn" -- The Anatomy of the Medieval Manuscript. 1. The Writing Surface -- 1.1. Earlier Supports: Stone, Wax, Papyrus -- 1.2. Parchment -- 1.3. Paper -- 2. Writing -- 2.1. Pricking and Ruling -- 2.2. Writing Instruments -- 2.3. Scripts -- 2.4. Abbreviation -- Color Plates -- 2.5. Punctuation -- 2.6. Musical Notation -- 2.7. Correction -- 2.8. Annotation -- 2.9. Editing -- 3. Decoration and Illustration. 3.1. Rubrication -- 3.2. Line Fillers -- 3.3. Borders and Marginalia -- 3.4. Initials -- 3.5. Illustrations -- 3.6. Diagrams and Maps -- 4. Bindings and the Shape of the Book. 4.1. Roll -- 4.2. Codex -- 5. A Template for Manuscript Description -- Case Studies: A Selection of English Literary Manuscripts. I. Literature : The Moore Bede (Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People and Other Items), Cambridge, University Library MS Kk.5.16 -- II. Afterlives: The Nowell Codex (Beowulf and Other Items), London, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xv, ff. 94r-209v -- III. Ownership : St. Albans Psalter, Hildesheim, Dombibliothek Hildesheim MS St. God. 1 -- IV. Language : Orrm, The Orrmulum, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Junius 1 -- V. Miscellaneity : Trilingual Miscellany, London, British Library MS Harley 2253 -- VI. Geography : Roman d'Alexandre and Other Items, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 264 -- VII. Authorship : The Gawain Manuscript (Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), London, British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x/2 -- VIII. Writing : The Ellesmere Chaucer (Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales), San Marino, CA, Huntington Library MS EL 26 C 9 -- IX. Editing : William Langland, Piers Plowman -- John Mandeville, Mandeville's Travels -- Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde -- and Other Items, San Marino, CA, Huntington Library MS HM 114 -- X. Mediation: The Book of Margery Kempe, London, British Library MS Additional 61823 -- XI. Illustration : Illustrated Carthusian Miscellany, London, British Library MS Additional 37049 -- XII. Performance : N-Town Plays, London, British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D.viii Summary "In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen case studies of particularly significant literary witnesses, including the Beowulf manuscript, the St. Albans Psalter, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe. Practical discussions of parchment, scripts, decoration, illustration, and bindings mix with consideration of such conceptual categories as ownership, authorship, language, miscellaneity, geography, writing, editing, mediation, illustration, and performance--as well as of the status of the literary itself. Each case study includes an essay orienting the reader to particularly productive categories of analysis and a selected bibliography for further research. Because a high-quality digital surrogate exists for each of the selected manuscripts, fully and freely available online, readers can gain access to the artifacts in their entirety, enabling further individual exploration and facilitating the book's classroom use. Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms aims to inspire a broad group of readers with some of the excitement of literary manuscript studies in the twenty-first century. The interpretative frameworks surrounding each object will assist everyone in thinking through the implications of manuscript culture more generally, not only for the deeper study of the literature of the Middle Ages, but also for a better understanding of book cultures of any era, including our own."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Beowulf Book of Margery Kempe Canterbury Tales England case study codex decoration handbook history of the book illuminated manuscript illumination illustration introduction literary form manuscript marginalia media studies medieval literature paleography parchment philology scribe script survey teaching toolkit Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Manuscripts, Medieval -- England Manuscripts, English (Middle) Books -- England -- History -- 400-1450 English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Manuscripts English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Manuscripts English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. Books English literature -- Middle English English literature -- Middle English -- Manuscripts English literature -- Old English English literature -- Old English -- Manuscripts Manuscripts, English (Middle) Manuscripts, Medieval England Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812298451 0812298454

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