Medieval Book and a Modern Collector

A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. 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. Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020). JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.

• Toshiyuki Takamiya in Cambridge - Derek BrewerTakamiya MS 58 and the Transmission of Jerome's Letter Ep. 106 in the Early Middle Ages - Rosamond D McKitterickPhillipps Fragments in Tokyo - Christopher de HamelA New Dante - Piero Boitani`Seven Sins' and Indulgences Restored: Towards a Reconstruction of London, British Library, MS Harley 913 - Yoko WadaNewly Identified Quotations in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale - Jill MannTextual Variation and the Alliterative Tradition: Canterbury Tales I.2602-2619, the D Group and Takamiya MS 32 - Helen CooperGower in the Delamere Chaucer Manuscript - A S G EdwardsChaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale - Norman BlakeThe Organisation of the Latin Apparatus in Gower's Confessio Amantis: The Scribes and their Problems - Derek PearsallRichard Frampton: A Commercial Scribe c. 1390 - c. 1420 - M B ParkesTakamiya MS 15: Some Liminal Observations - The Holland- Takamiya Manuscript of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ - Michael G SargentTakamiya MS 60 and the Middle English Text of Bernard of Gordon's De Pronosticis - Linda Ehrsam VoigtsThe Illustrations of the Takamiya Polychronicon - Kathleen L ScottHooked-G Scribes and Takamiya Manuscripts [with Daniel W. Mosser] - Linne R MooneyJohannes de Caritate, 'The Privyte Of Privyteis' - Nicolas BarkerA `Prik of concience cheyned': the Parish Library of St Margaret's , New Fish Street, London, 1472 - P R RobinsonBrotherton Collection MS 18 and its Riddling Middle English Verses - Oliver S PickeringA Pictoral Compendium in British Library MS Additional 37049 - Takami MatsudaConflations of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost in Manuscript and Print - Julia BoffeyA Letter Written by Thomas Betson, Brother of Syon Abbey - A I DoyleThe Keio Copy of the Roger of St Albans Chronicle - John ScahillSir Thomas Malory and the Holy Blood of the Hailes - Richard BarberDe Worde and Malory - P J C FieldCompositors' Practice: Resetting of Texts in Caxton's Printing- House - Lotte HellingaThe Canterbury Tales and the Rosary: A Mirror of Caxton's Devotions? - Paul NeedhamThe Chronicle of Scotland in a Part and the Chronicle of John Hardyng - Edward Donald KennedyMarginal glosses in Sir John Cheke's translation of the Bible - Jeremy J SmithMorgan MS M.956 and an Important Early Collector - Martha W DriverAn Appropriation of the Book of St Albans by the Gentleman's Academie: Some Bibliographical Considerations - Tsuyoshi Mukai`Whole shyppes full' of Manuscripts: A Sixteenth-Century Vellum Wrapper - Richard LinenthalThe Manuscripts of James Cobbes of Bury St Edmunds (c. 1602-1685) - Richard BeadleAn Unrecorded London Sale of the Gutenberg Bible - Kristian JensenBishop Thomas Percy's Contributions to Langland Scholarship: Two Annotated Piers Plowman Prints in Belfast - John J. ThompsonLeaning on Chaucer - Bonnie WheelerHenry Bradshaw and the Book of Deer - Patrick N R ZutshiSir Walter Greg and Medieval English Manuscripts: A Note - David McKitterickLords of the Ring: Tolkein, Beowulf, and the memory of Song - Ruth MorseA Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya - Isamu Takahashi

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