Vernacular Manuscript Culture 1000-1500

Erik Kwakkel teaches at Leiden University, where he directs the research project ‘Turning over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance’.

• Contents List of Figures and Plates Preface Abbreviations Vernacular Manuscript Culture 1000-1500: An Introduction / Erik Kwakkel Worcester and Wales: Copies of the Regula pastoralis in the Early Middle Ages / Kathryn A. Lowe Manuscripts of the Earliest Middle High German Prayers, c. 1150-1250 / Nigel F. Palmer Rubricating History in Late Medieval France / Godfried Croenen Codifying the Law: Frisian Legal Manuscripts around 1300 / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Saga Manuscripts / Sheryl McDonald Werronen Thick Quires in Italy / J.P. Gumbert (†) Notes on Contributors Colour Plates Index of Manuscripts General Index

“This is a very important, very timely publication […] This book represents an important step in bringing the manuscript traditions of various vernaculars into dialogue with one another. It is much needed in the current scholarly field.” – Michael Johnston, Associate Professor English, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University, USA.