Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England

Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. DANIEL W. MOSSER is Emeritus Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He has published numerous articles on fifteenth-century manuscripts and incunabula, primarily those containing Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He has collaborated on the production and maintenance of two large online reference works: The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive (with Ernest W. Sullivan II, et al.), and the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (together with Linne R. Mooney, et al.). JULIAN LUXFORD is Professor in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. SHERRY L. REAMES is Professor Emerita of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Introduction`Chaucer's Scribe', Adam, and the Hengwrt Project - Daniel W MosserThe Trinity Gower D Scribe's Two Canterbury Tales Manuscripts Revisi ted - Jacob ThaisenCorrected Mistakes in MS Gg.4.27 - Takako KatoLate Medieval Efforts at Standardization and Reform in the Sarum Lessons fo r Saints' Days - Sherry L ReamesEvolution of a Manuscript: the Pavement Hours - Amelia GroundsSinging from the Same Hymn-Sheet: Two Bridgettine Manuscripts - John Sexton, Book Reviews EditorSecundum Originale Examinatum: The Refashioning of a Benedictine His torical Manuscript - Julian LuxfordLocating Scribal Activity in Late Medieval London - Linne R MooneyWhat do the Numbers Mean? A Textual Critic's Observations on Some Patterns of Middle English Manuscript Transmission - Michael G. SargentThe Middle English Prose Brut and the Possibilities of Cultural Mapp ing - John J. ThompsonMapping Manuscripts and Readers of Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God - M ConnollyYorkshire Manuscripts of the Speculum Vitae - Ralph HannaVernacular Herbals: A Growth Industry in Late Medieval England - G R KeiserIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index

Taste alone will enable a reader to distinguish between the thirteen con¬tributions assembled here and edited superbly by Margaret Connolly and Linne Mooney. The essays are all impressive. [...] This is a meritorious book, then, brimming over with manuscript particulars, a model of the multiple, complementary approaches that major scholars are now bringing to bear on the study of Middle English literature and cultural history.