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The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector
Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya
Edited by Takami Matsuda
Edited by Richard A. Linenthal
Edited by John Scahill


Essays focus on the study of English medieval manuscripts and early printed books. Many concern items in Professor Takamiya's own collection, often providing the first published accounts of these. The subjects range from Saint Jerome to Tolkien, with particular concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious and historical writings of the late middle ages. There are essays examining the work of early printers such as Caxton and de Worde, and of bibliophiles and antiquarians in modern times. Befitting a tribute to a bibliophile, this volume has been handsomely designed by Lida Kindersley of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge, and is extensively illustrated with black-and-white and colour plates. The volume as a whole constitutes a substantial body of research on medieval English literature, and early books and manuscripts. Contributors DEREK BREWER, ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK, CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL, PIERO BOITANI, YOKO WADA, JILL MANN, HELEN COOPER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, N.F. BLAKE, DEREK PEARSALL, M.B. PARKES, RALPH HANNA, MICHAEL G. SARGENT, LINDA EHRSAM VOIGTS, KATHLEEN L. SCOTT, LINNE R. MOONEY, DANIEL W. MOSSER, NICOLAS BARKER, P.R. ROBINSON, OLIVER PICKERING, TAKAMI MATSUDA, JULIA BOFFEY, A.I. DOYLE, JOHN SCAHILL, RICHARD BARBER, P.J.C. FIELD, LOTTE HELLINGA, PAUL NEEDHAM, EDWARD DONALD KENNEDY, JEREMY J. SMITH, MARTHA W. DRIVER, TSUYOSHI MUKAI, RICHARD A. LINENTHAL, RICHARD BEADLE, KRISTIAN JENSEN, JOHN THOMPSON, BONNIE WHEELER, PATRICK ZUTSHI, DAVID MCKITTERICK, RUTH MORSE, ISAMU TAKAHASHI

 

DETAILS

4 colour illustrations
78 b/w illustrations
512 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
13 digit ISBN: 9781843840206
Binding: Hardback
First published: 25/Nov/2004
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Subject: Medieval Literature

BIC class: CSBB

STATUS: Out of stock
Details updated on 18/11/2008

Contents
1   Toshiyuki Takamiya in Cambridge
Derek S Brewer
2   Takamiya MS 58 and the Transmission of Jerome's Letter Ep. 106 in the Early Middle Ages
Rosamond D McKitterick
3   Phillipps Fragments in Tokyo
Christopher de Hamel
4   A New Dante
Piero Boitani
5   `Seven Sins' and Indulgences Restored: Towards a Reconstruction of London, British Library, MS Harley 913
Yoko Wada
6   Newly Identified Quotations in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale
Jill Mann
7   Textual Variation and the Alliterative Tradition: Canterbury Tales I.2602-2619, the D Group and Takamiya MS 32
Helen Cooper
8   Gower in the Delamere Chaucer Manuscript
A S G Edwards
9   Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale
Norman Blake
10   The Organisation of the Latin Apparatus in Gower's Confessio Amantis: The Scribes and their Problems
Derek Pearsall
11   Richard Frampton: A Commercial Scribe c. 1390 - c. 1420
M B Parkes
12   Takamiya MS 15: Some Liminal Observations
Ralph Hanna
13   The Holland- Takamiya Manuscript of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ
Michael G Sargent
14   Takamiya MS 60 and the Middle English Text of Bernard of Gordon's De Pronosticis
Linda Ehrsam Voigts
15   The Illustrations of the Takamiya Polychronicon
Kathleen L Scott
16   Hooked-G Scribes and Takamiya Manuscripts [with Daniel W. Mosser]
Linne R Mooney
16   Hooked-G Scribes and Takamiya Manuscripts [with Linne R. Mooney]
Daniel W Mosser
17   Johannes de Caritate, 'The Privyte Of Privyteis'
Nicolas Barker
18   A `Prik of concience cheyned': the Parish Library of St Margaret's , New Fish Street, London, 1472
P R Robinson
19   Brotherton Collection MS 18 and its Riddling Middle English Verses
Oliver S Pickering
20   A Pictoral Compendium in British Library MS Additional 37049
Takami Matsuda
21   Conflations of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost in Manuscript and Print
Julia Boffey
22   A Letter Written by Thomas Betson, Brother of Syon Abbey
A I Doyle
23   The Keio Copy of the Roger of St Albans Chronicle
John Scahill
24   Sir Thomas Malory and the Holy Blood of the Hailes
Richard W Barber
25   De Worde and Malory
P J C Field
26   Compositors' Practice: Resetting of Texts in Caxton's Printing- House
Lotte Hellinga
27   The Canterbury Tales and the Rosary: A Mirror of Caxton's Devotions?
Paul Needham
28   The Chronicle of Scotland in a Part and the Chronicle of John Hardyng
Edward Donald Kennedy
29   Marginal glosses in Sir John Cheke's translation of the Bible
Jeremy J Smith
30   Morgan MS M.956 and an Important Early Collector
Martha W Driver
31   An Appropriation of the Book of St Albans by the Gentleman's Academie: Some Bibliographical Considerations
Tsuyoshi Mukai
32   `Whole shyppes full' of Manuscripts: A Sixteenth-Century Vellum Wrapper
Richard Linenthal
33   The Manuscripts of James Cobbes of Bury St Edmunds (c. 1602-1685)
Richard Beadle
34   An Unrecorded London Sale of the Gutenberg Bible
Kristian Jensen
35   Bishop Thomas Percy's Contributions to Langland Scholarship: Two Annotated Piers Plowman Prints in Belfast
John Thompson
36   Leaning on Chaucer
Bonnie Wheeler
37   Henry Bradshaw and the Book of Deer
Patrick N R Zutshi
38   Sir Walter Greg and Medieval English Manuscripts: A Note
David McKitterick
39   Lords of the Ring: Tolkein, Beowulf, and the memory of Song
Ruth Morse
40   A Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya
Isamu Takahashi

Reviews
[A] beautifully produced and scholarly volume [that] approaches infallibility: not only its recipients but the editors, contributors, and all involved in its preparation and production should feel honoured by it. THE LIBRARY
Physically splendid [with] an astonishingly large number of plates. A feast of a festschrift, a banquet of a book that should not be missed. RICARDIAN



 

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