Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations ed. by Nicole R. Rice

How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time and Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary of Key Manuscript Terminology Note on Transcriptions and Transcription SymbolsTHE FRONT PLATES: Transcriptions, Scripts, and Descriptive Analysis for Learning to Read Literary Texts on the Manuscript PageHow to Transcribe Middle English / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton-Bare Essentials 1: A Transcription Is Not an EditionIntroduction: The Order of the Plates and Scripts Most Commonly Found in Middle English Literary Texts / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton1. The Land of Cokaygne (British Library, ms Harley 913) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton2. Ihesu (Newberry Library, MS 31) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton3. The Pricke of Conscience (Newberry Library, MS 32.9) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton4. Chaucer's Cook's Tale (Hg) (National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 392D, Hengwrt MS 154) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton5. Chaucer's Cook's Tale (Cp) (Corpus Christi College, MS 198) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton6. Omnis plantacio (formerly The Clergy May Not Hold Property) (Huntington Library, MS HM 503) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton7. Hoccleve 's Chanceon to Somer and Envoy to Regiment des Princes (Huntington Library, MS HM 111) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton8. Langland, Piers Plowman (Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton9. Sir Degrevant (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6, Findern MS) / Linda Olson10. Wisdom (Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.354, Macro MS) / Linda OlsonChapter 1. Major Middle English Poets and Manuscript Studies, 1300-1450 / Kathryn Kerby-FultonA Brief Overview of Topics Covered in This ChapterI. BL MS Arundel 292, Archaism, and the Preservation of Alliterative Poetry c. 1300-c. 1450II. BL MS Harley 2253 and Principles of Compilatio, or: Why Read the Harley Lyrics in their Natural Habitat?-Bare Essentials 2: Anglicana Script and Profiling the Individual ScribeIII. Gawain and the Medieval Reader: The Importance of Manuscript Ordinatio in a Poem We Think We Know-Bare Essentials 3: Assessing Emendation in a Modern EditionIV. The Rise of English Book Production in Ricardian London: Professional Scribes and Langland's Piers Plowman-Bare Essentials 4: Some Basic Concepts of Editing, Types of Written Standard Middle English, and Scribal Handling of DialectV. Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the Canterbury TalesVI. The Scribe Speaks at Last: Hoccleve as Scribe EChapter 2. Romancing the Book: Manuscripts for Euerich Inglische / Linda Olson-Middle English Romances in the Auchinleck, Thornton, and Findern ManuscriptsI. Englishing Romance: The Auchinleck ManuscriptII. Romancing the Gentry Household: Robert Thornton's Homemade Family Library-Thornton Names in the Lincoln and London ManuscriptsIII. Courting Romance in the Provinces: The Findern ManuscriptChapter 3. The Power of Images in the Auchinleck, Vernon, Pearl, and Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts / Maidie HilmoI. Looking at Medieval ImagesII. The Auchinleck ManuscriptIII. The Vernon ManuscriptIV. The Pearl ManuscriptV. Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts and the Ushaw Prick of ConscienceVI. ConclusionChapter 4. Professional Readers at Work: Annotators, Editors, and Correctors in Middle English Literary Texts / Kathryn Kerby-FultonI. Categories of Marginalia: The Annotating and Glossing of ChaucerII. The Annotations in Manuscripts of Langland's Piers PlowmanIII. Annotations and Corrections in the Book of Margery Kempe: Cruxes, Controversies, and Solutions-Appendix on the Red Ink Annotator and Previous Annotators in BL MS Add. 61823IV. The Quiet Connoisseur: The First Annotator(s) of Julian of Norwich's Showings in the Amherst Manuscript (British Library, MS Add. 37790)Chapter 5. Illuminating Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Portraits of the Author and Selected Pilgrim Authors / Maidie HilmoI. IntroductionII. The Decoration and Borders of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere ManuscriptsIII. The Historiated Initial with an Author Portrait: A Further Development of the Hengwrt TraditionIV. The Ellesmere Traditions: Illustrated Pilgrim AuthorsV. ConclusionChapter 6. Swete Cordyall of Lytterature: Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister / Linda OlsonI. Nourishing the Spirit of Religious Women: Vernacular Texts and ManuscriptsII. Monastic Manuscripts of Chaucer: Literary Excellence under Religious Rule-The Contents of London, British Library, MS Harley 7333III. Lots of Lydgate and a Little Hoccleve: Chaucer's Successors in Monastic HandsIV. Sadde Mete for Mind and Soul: Contemplative and Visionary Texts in the CloisterV. Taking it to the Streets: Middle English Drama from the CloisterReferences Cited Illustration Credits Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula General Index

Chaucer’s Sir Thopas has always been read in terms of its forms: the tail-rhyme that creates the poem’s laughable music, the affiliation with romance that grounds its parody in the forms we call genre. Nor are these forms of Sir Thopas inconsequential. Christopher Cannon has recently argued that it was precisely in the forms of romance that textual objects in the thirteenth century rose above the vagaries of matter and became literary essence: through King Horn, Havelok the Dane, and the other texts that Sir Thopas spoofs, “the spirit of English romance became the spirit of English literature.”1 But if Chaucer registers this apotheosis of the literary through a knowing de-materialization of his own text, Cannon’s study of early Middle English literature asks us to return to the matter that grounds that spirit. Similarly, the material forms of Sir Thopas raise questions about how to understand the poem’s essence—that is to say, how the tail-rhyme meter or the layout of a manuscript page might be invested with literary significance. In different ways, both New Criticism and textual materialism have made it commonplace to assert that form shapes meaning, but I am equally interested here in the ways in which it fails to do so. For the material forms of Sir Thopas, specifically its manuscript layout, bear a problematic relation to its immaterial

The chapter first demonstrates that the tHenrico Perveyst of the attestation can be confidently identified with Henry Perveys, London draper, as Smithers surmised. Second, It argues that the additions to the final folio reorient the manuscript's fifteenth-century identity and meaning for Perveys and for us to that of a mercantile collection, one especially concerned with the processes of maintaining a mercantile masculine identity. Third, the chapter shows that one of the flyleaf poems, Be þou nauȝt to bolde to blame, places Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 (L) in a textual network of similar manuscript collections created or added to in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many of which were owned by mercantile men and concerned with instruction in mercantile masculine identity. Keywords: Bodleian library; Henrico Perveys; mercantile masculine identity; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc

Mapping Illuminated Manuscripts: Applying GIS concepts to Lancelot-Grail Manuscripts

Because this article introduces an unpublished and little-known Middle English text, it engages necessarily in a diverse set of enquiries. As a consequence, the article is divided into sections which consider (I) the manuscript, (II) a history of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle as it originated on the Continent, (III) the relationship of the Middle English text, as a translation, to other translations and versions - especially those found in Britain and Ireland - and (IV) the literary and thematic distinctions of the Middle English text. In anticipation of the third and fourth sections, it is worth keeping in mind that many of the events related in the Pseudo-Turpin are linked with those of the chansons deg,este of Charlemagne (the so-called `Matter of France). Received scholarly opinion has tended to suggest that when this kind of material found its way into Middle English the circumstances were forced, the results regrettable: The English Charlemagne romances ... give the impression that they were written ... by writers who were driven to this somewhat uncongenial material by [an] insatiable demand for romances.' The English Charlemagne romances are in the main undistinguished, to say the least.2 The matter of France [is] the source of nine of the dreariest and most contemptible pieces.' Some of the Middle English Charlemagne texts are indeed of questionable merit, but others, when looked at more closely, are without doubt the work of intelligent authors and translators very much engaged with their material;4 and it can be shown that the Middle English Pseudo-Turpin belongs with the better examples. More importantly, perhaps, it can also be shown that the piece reveals - albeit subtly - evidence for the proposition that much of the English matter of France emanated from a well-established and flourishing Insular textual tradition. There may be evidence, moreover, for a distinctly English tradition regarding certain moralistic parts of the chronicle. The Middle English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle is preserved uniquely in San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM zS,561. The manuscript, dating from the late fifteenth century, comprises a large collection of Middle English texts, the most voluminous of which is John Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon; that text includes alphabetical subject indexes in Latin and English and Trevisa's own `Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation' with the pendant 'Epistle' to his patron Thomas, fourth Lord Berkeley (fols 24'-3 I 9'). Also found in the manuscript are Trevisa's translations of the Dialogus inter militem et clericum (fols 1'-Ov) and Fitzralph's Defensio curatorum (fols 5--20); there is also another translation, perhaps by Trevisa, of The Beginning of the World and the End of Worlds, attributed to Methodius (fols z i'-z33. There are also some 115 Latin verses on the kings of England from Alfred to Henry VI (fol. 3zo', followed by some Latin tracts on each of the kings of England from Richard II to Edward IV (fols 320V-3 ; 3 z 5 is ruled, otherwise blank). The Pseudo-Turpin is the last item, occupying fols 326`-337. At least five scribes were at work on the whole manuscript; all use late anglicana or secretary scripts which date from the second half of the fifteenth century. Parchment is used throughout and the pages are large, measuring about 38omm x 227 mm. Margins are ample, with the area of text taking up about z6gmm x 176mm across two columns. In the portion of the manuscript preceding the PseudoTurpin there are forty lines per column. In the same portion, decoration starts out lavishly, with a number of pages rendered with gilt and coloured full foliate borders and illuminated initials, and other pages have similar but less extensive adornment; several pages, however, show decoration in various stages of incompletion, and all decoration is abandoned by fol. I 3 8'. The Pseudo-Turpin begins on a new gathering of eight bifolia, and carries over into another such gathering, the last four folios of which are lost; as a result, the text breaks off soon after beginning its twenty-sixth chapter, two words into a new phrase (`and anone . …

<i>Julia Boffey</i> Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530<i>Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475–1530</i>. Julia Boffey. London: British Library, 2012. Pp. vi+246.

Book Review| April 01 2014 The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative. Edited by Kimberly K. Bell and Julie Nelson Couch. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xxi + 328; 12 illustrations. $185. Orietta Da Rold Orietta Da Rold Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2014) 113 (2): 230–232. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.113.2.0230 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Orietta Da Rold; The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 1 April 2014; 113 (2): 230–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.113.2.0230 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressThe Journal of English and Germanic Philology Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2014 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

adrienne williams boyarin, ed., The Siege of Jerusalem. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Toronto: Broadview, 2014. Pp. 198. isbn: 978-1-55481-158-8. $18.95.When it appeared in the late fourteenth century, The Siege of Jerusalem was not the first Christian text to explore and revise Josephus' account of the Flavian siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., nor was it the first to portray fictively Christianized Romans taking up a campaign as an act of vengeance against the Jews. It was, however, the first rendition to appear in alliterative long line verse, situating the violent tale within the aesthetically adorned literary and emotive context of late medieval English poetry. Because of the anti-Semitic horrors that fill The Siege of Jerusalem, it is difficult to comprehend how the poem was situated and appreciated as an effective religious production and work of art. Yet, as Boyarin is quick to point out, the work offers attentive audiences a better understanding of many of the critical issues which drive premodern scholarship, including uses of genre, textual borrowing and adaptation, Christian medieval receptions and uses of Judaism, hagiography, eschatology, historiography, reliquary culture, conversion, and crusading, to name only a few. It is, of course, not Boyarin's aim to draw attention away from the horrific treatment of the poem's Jews; the text allows a clear understanding of medieval Christian antiSemitism, especially in relation to a range of different crusading impulses that shaped the medieval period. It is in opening up such critical discussions that the translation is so useful, particularly in undergraduate classrooms where levels of familiarity with Middle English vary; the Modern English edition widens the circle of students able to engage with the important questions which the poem raises.Scholars over the past decade have been working to make the Siege more available for scholarly critique. Boyarin's Modern English text joins Ralph Hanna III and David Lawton's Middle English edition published by the Early English Text Society in 2003, the latter a useful update to the earlier, full edition by Eugen Kolbing and Mabel Day published by EETS in 1932. The Siege poem has circulated in partial, anthologized form, in Thorlac Turville-Petre's Middle English excerpt in Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages, and in full, in Michael Livingston's edition for the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series (2004), which simplified and glossed aspects of the Middle English for classroom use. Boyarin's Modern English translation of The Siege of Jerusalem is the first of its kind, and a valuable undergraduate classroom resource. Boyarin's base-text, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 656, fols. 1v-19r, represents one of the oldest of the more complete manuscripts containing the poem, and is the text used (with some justifiable reservations) by Hanna, Lawton, and Livingston. Boyarin's plan for her translation, for use alongside current editions in Middle English, maintains the divisions and lineations of those editions.While Boyarin situates her work as a supporting apparatus to the Middle English editions, it should be noted that she does not slavishly follow the poem's prior editors at every step. …

Although the Middle English texts broadly categorized as ‘devotional literature’ have received considerable scholarly attention in recent years, much work remains to be done on the cultural meanings and textual transformations of vernacular religious writing during the later medieval period and into the sixteenth century. During these years, popular (but still little-studied) late medieval works such as the Pore Caitif circulated in varied forms amid changing circumstances: the expansion of audiences for Middle English texts, the emergence and persecution of Lollardy, attempts at ecclesiastical censorship, the advent of printing, and the Henrician Reformation. How did Middle English religious texts answer changing cultural and practical needs and the requirements of orthodoxy? How did older texts find new readers; how did these readers alter and deploy them? This collection capitalizes on widespread current interest in these questions, gathering original essays that analyse the many forms, meanings, and legacies of Middle English religious writing.

List of Figures ... x Acknowledgments ... xi List of Abbreviations ... xiii List of Authors ... xvii Introduction: Reading Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 as a Whole Book ... 1 Kimberly K. Bell and Julie Nelson Couch PART ONE THE MANUSCRIPT AND ITS PROVENANCE I. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: Contents, Construction, and Circulation ... 21 A. S. G. Edwards II. Talk in the Camps: On the Dating of the South English Legendary, Havelok the Dane, and King Horn in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 ... 31 Thomas R. Liszka III. Very Like a Whale?: Physical Features and the Whole Book in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 ... 51 Murray J. Evans IV. Her Y Spelle: The Evocation of Minstrel Performance in a Hagiographical Context ... 71 Andrew Taylor V. Miscellaneous Masculinities and a Possible Fifteenth-Century Owner of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 ... 87 Christina M. Fitzgerald PART TWO THE MANUSCRIPT AND ITS TEXTS VI. A Text for Its Time: The Sanctorale of the Early South English Legendary ... 117 Diane Speed VII. The Audience and Function of the Apocryphal Infancy of Jesus Christ in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 ... 137 Daniel T. Kline VIII. The Eschatological Cluster-Sayings of St. Bernard, Vision of St. Paul, and Dispute Between the Body and the Soul-in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 ... 157 J. Justin Brent IX. Genre, Bodies, and Power in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: King Horn, Havelok, and the South English Legendary ... 177 Andrew Lynch X. The Early South English Legendary and Difference: Race, Place, Language, and Belief ... 197 Robert Mills XI. The Magic of Englishness in St. Kenelm and Havelok the Dane ... 223 Julie Nelson Couch XII. holie mannes liues: England and its Saints in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108's King Horn and South English Legendary ... 251 Kimberly K. Bell XIII. Somer Soneday: Kingship, Sainthood, and Fortune in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 ... 275 Susanna Fein Epilogue: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 and Other English Manuscripts ... 299 A. S. G. Edwards Bibliography ... 303 Index of Manuscripts ... 323 General Index ... 325 Figures following 329

Imagining structures from the ekphrastic descriptions of the Jerusalem Temple and Temple Mount in I Kings and Ezekiel is an ancient meditation discipline, which was adopted from Jewish practices into early Christian monasticism. Though it could take various forms, ‘imagining/remembering Jerusalem’ was often practised as a devotional exercise throughout the European Middle Ages. Drawings of such an imagined character are significant to late medieval exegesis of these and related scriptural materials, particularly those associated with the commentaries of Nicholas of Lyra and the collection of visual meditations known as the Speculum theologie. This chapter queries a late medieval illuminated manuscript (Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc. 156) that, in the fifteenth century, formed part of the library of St John's Hospital in Exeter, to suggest that its materials were acquired and used for scriptural study and sermon composition by scholars of the hospital and its associated school.

172 Reviews ingredient of self-preservation, which the whole political nation sought in 1640. Glyn Party Department of History Victoria Univeristy of Wellington Gabriel, Astrick L., The Paris studium: Robert of Sorbonne and his legacy: interuniversity exchange between the German, Cracow and Louvain universities and that of Paris in the late medieval and humanistic period. Selected studies (Texts and studies in the history of medieval education, No. XIX), Notre D a m e and Frankfurt am Main, United States subcomission for the history of universities and verlag Joseph Knecht, 1992; cloth; pp. 541; 33 plates; R.R.P. US$79.00. This handsomely produced volume is conceived as a homage to the author himself, reprinting, with updated information and bibliography, articles mainly published in the seventies and eighties. Thefirstone, however, on Robert de Sorbonne, saw the light of day in 1953. All the articles have been updated in one way or the other, in all cases bibliographical additions being included. Sometimes there is additional text. Recent discoveries by other scholars m a y have been inserted, new information added or illustrations replaced or even, in one case, reproduced for thefirsttime. Since the articles are all of a high quality, relate to the same basic area of study, the early life and influence of the university of Paris, and have been hitherto scattered through several journals, it was an excellent idea to gather them together in the one volume. The volume has all the trappings of a hommage volume. It is printed on afinequality glossy paper, is well bound and provided with an attractive dust cover, and offers intotalthirty-three plates, all black and white except for No. X X X which reproduces in colour the introductory page of the records of the Rectoratus of Henricus Stromer. The reader is well served by a full bibliography of works cited in the course of the nine articles or 'chapters' as weU as a section listing manuscripts and archival material, incunabula, and printed rare books mentioned in the articles. Access to information in the pages of the book is facilitated by a separate name and subject index. James J. John traces in his preface the cursus honorum of Gabriel, following his peripatetic path from Hungary to Paris to Canada to,finally,the university of Notre D a m e in Indiana, where Gabriel has completed the best part of bis Reviews 173 influential and extensive work on medieval education. Following the preface, the reader finds a Tabula gratulatoria and a List ofpublications of Astrik L Gabriel, in chronological order from 1934 to 1992. It is worth noting that a previous collection of Gabriel's articles appeared in 1969 under thetideGarlandia: studies in the history of the mediaeval university. In every way this earliertitlemay be considered a companion volume to the present one: same publication house, similar types of articles. The titles of the 'chapters' are, in each case, closely descriptive of the content: T. The spiritual portrait of Robert of Sorbonne'; 'U. "Via antiqua" and "via moderna" and the migration of Paris students and masters to the German universities in the fifteenth century'; TIL The house of poor German students at the medieval univeristy of Paris'; 'IV. Intellectual contacts between the university of Louvain and Paris during the fifteenth century'; 'V. Scholarly bonds of the university of Cracow with Paris schools in the late medieval period'; 'VI. German receptors, "reformators", and proctors at the university of Paris, (1495-1525)'; 'VII. Georgius Wolff (t 1499). Printer. Officer of the English-German nation at the university of Paris. His social, professional and academic connections'; 'VIII. The academic career of Gervasius Wain from Memmingen (ca. 1490-1554), rector of the university of Paris, envoy of Francois Ier to the German princes'; and 'IX. Franciscus Ossmanus from Alkmaar, proctor, receptor, (treasurer) and 'reformator' of the natio Alemanniae at Paris studium (15151524 )'. In the Table of Contents at the beginning of the book there is a more detaUed breakdown into subsections, so that the reader may more easUy locate at a glance the sort of information sought. Gabriel's style seems sometimes a litde too rhetorical, even fustian, especially in the article of Robert of Sorbonne. Sentences such...

The successful preservation of digital assets requires maintenance, continuity of service, and proactive stewardship.1 An ongoing challenge for Bodleian Libraries (of Oxford University) and Cambridge University Library (CUL) has been taking outputs from time-bound digital preservation projects and turning them into ongoing uninterrupted services. This is not a challenge which is specific to Bodleian Libraries and CUL, but it has been recognized as a difficult transition for many organizations to make. The Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge (DPOC) project (2016–2018) is a collaboration between Bodleian Libraries and CUL which is supported and funded by The Polonsky Foundation. Bodleian Libraries and CUL have historically strong ties, and have previously collaborated on digital preservation projects. Both organizations also have experience creating digital preservation resources, for which stewardship at the end of projects has been transferred over to staff within the libraries for maintenance. However, siloed preservation activities have so far not translated into institution-wide, ongoing programmatic digital preservation activities.

<i>Emma Lipton,</i> Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature<i>Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature</i>. EmmaLipton. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Pp. ix+246.