Makers and Users of Medieval Books

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. JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus) of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin.

• ForewordWinning and Wasting in Wynnere and Wastoure and Piers Plowman - John A. BurrowThe Reference Work in the Fifteenth Century: John Whethamstede's Granarium - Alfred HiattPageants Reconsidered - Martha W. DriverCodicology, Localization and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108 - Orietta Da RoldThe Fillers of the Auchinleck Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the West Midlands - Susanna FeinTanner 190 Revisited - Nicolas BarkerEarly Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Toshiyuki TakamiyaEarly Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Richard LinenthalThe Two Issues of More's Book against Luther - A I DoyleTrinity College MS 516: A Clerical Historian's Personal Miscellany - John ScattergoodKatherine de la Pole and East Anglian Manuscript Production in the Fifteenth Century: An Unrecognized Patron? - Carol MealePast Ownership: Evidence of Book Ownership by English Merchants in the Later Middle Ages - Kathleen ScottFrom Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of some of Poggio's Latin Facetiae - Lotte HellingaLove in the 1530s - John J. ThompsonEditorial Glossing and Reader Resistance in a Copy of Robert Crowley's Piers Plowman - Jane GriffithsBeaupré Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century - Simon HorobinA. S. G. Edwards: List of PublicationsIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral IndexTabula Gratulatoria

[O]ffers a compendium of much of the research going on in Middle English manuscript and bibliographical studies and will be invaluable to scholars at all levels.