Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th birthday (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles)

This Exciting Collection Of Essays Is Centred On Late Medieval English Manuscripts And Their Texts. It Offers New Insights Into The Works Of Canonical Literary Writers, Including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Walter Hilton And Nicholas Love, As Well As Lesser-known Texts And Manuscripts. It Also Considers Medieval Books, Their Producers, Readers, And Collectors. It Is Thus A Fitting Tribute To One The Foremost Scholars Of The History Of The Book, Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya, Whom It Honours.--page [4] Of Cover. Chaucer, Gower And Langland -- Lyrics And Romances -- Devotional Writings -- Owners And Users Of Medieval Books -- A Tribute To Professor Takamiya. Edited By Simon Horobin & Linne Mooney. Includes Bibliography Of Toshiyuki Takamiya's Works (pages 306-317). Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Frontcover 1 Contents 8 List of Illustrations 10 List of Contributors 13 List of Abbreviations 15 Preface 16 Chaucer, Gower and Langland 22 The Early History of the Scriveners’ Company Common Paper and its So-Called ‘Oaths’ 22 Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 201 and its Copy of Piers Plowman 42 Did John Gower Rededicate his Confessio Amantis before Henry IV’s Usurpation? 61 Le Songe Vert, BL Add. MS 34114 (the Spalding Manuscript), Bibliothèque de la ville de Clermont, MS 249 and John Gower 96 Lyrics and Romances 109 Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 33: Thoughts on Reading a Work in Progress 109 The Rawlinson Lyrics: Context, Memory and Performance 125 Linguistic Boundaries in Multilingual Miscellanies: The Case of Middle English Romance 137 What Six Unalike Lyrics in MS Harley 2253 Have Alike in Manuscript Layout 146 Devotional Writings 155 Evidence for the Licensing of Books from Arundel to Cromwell 155 Bishops, Patrons, Mystics and Manuscripts: Walter Hilton, Nicholas Love and the Arundel and Holland Connections 180 The Choice and Arrangement of Texts in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125: A Tentative Narrative about its Material History 198 ‘Thys moche more ys oure lady mary longe’: Takamiya MS 56 and the English Birth Girdle Tradition 220 Owners and Users of Medieval Books 241 Bookish Types: Some Post-Medieval Owners, Borrowers and Lenders of the Manuscripts of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy 241 Laurentius Guglielmus Traversagnus and the Genesis of Vaticana Codex Lat. 11441, with Remarks on Bodleian MS Laud Lat. 61 262 The Travels of a Quire from the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First: The Case of Rawlinson B 484, fols. 1–6 271 William Elstob’s Planned Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Laws: A Remnant in the Takamiya Collection 289 A Tribute to Professor Takamiya 318 Gutenberg Meets Digitization: The Path of a Digital Ambassador 318 A Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya 327 Index of Manuscripts 340 General Index 344 Tabula Gratulatoria 354 Backcover 362 Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators.This exciting collection of essays is centred on late medieval English manuscripts and their texts. It offers new insights into the works of canonical literary writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Walter Hilton and Nicholas Love, as well as lesser-known texts and manuscripts. It also considers medieval books, their producers, readers, and collectors. It is thus a fitting tribute to one the foremost scholars of the history of the book, Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya, whom it honours. Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford; Linne Mooney is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Contributors: Timothy Graham, Richard Firth Green, Carrie Griffin, Gareth Griffith, Phillipa Hardman, John Hirsh, Simon Horobin, Terry Jones, Takako Kato, Linne R. Mooney, Mary Morse, James J. Murphy, Natalia Petrovskaia, Susan Powell, Ad Putter, Michael G. Sargent, Eric Stanley, Mayumi Taguchi, Isamu Takahashi, Satoko Tokunaga, R.F. Yeager