SUSANNA FEIN is Professor Emerita of English at Kent State University. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. CATHY HUME is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor Emerita of English at Kent State University.

• Introduction. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives - Susanna FeinThe Auchinleck Manuscript Forty Years On - Derek PearsallCodicology and Translation in the Early Sections of the Auchinleck Manuscript - A S G EdwardsThe Auchinleck Adam and Eve: An Exemplary Family Story - Cathy HumeA Failure to Communicate: Multilingualism in the Prologue to Of Arthour and of Merlin - Patrick ButlerScribe 3's Literary Project: Pedagogies of Reading in Auchinleck's Booklet 3 - Emily RundeAbsent Presence: Auchinleck and Kyng Alisaunder - Venetia BridgesSir Tristrem, a Few Fragments and the Northern Identity of the Auchinleck Manuscript - Ann HigginsThe Invention of King Richard - Marisa LibbonAuchinleck and Chaucer - Helen PhillipsEndings in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Siobhain Bly CalkinParaphs, Piecework and Presentation: The Production Methods of Auchinleck Revisited - Timothy A. ShonkScribal Corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Miceal F VaughanAuchinleck 'Scribe 6' and Some Corollary Issues - Ralph HannaBibliography

A weighty and significant publication.. It constitutes essential reading, not only for any serious student of the Auchinleck Ms. and its texts, but also for those interested in medieval romance and in any aspect of medieval ms. culture. It is also an example of an all-too-rare phenomenon: a volume of essays which is, through their interaction and skillful curation, significantly more than the sum of its parts.