Studies in the Harley Manuscript
The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253
Edited by Susanna Fein
Hardback (Published)
(September 2000)
ISBN: 9781580440608
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This book is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature.
Studies in the Harley Manuscript is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature. In an Introduction and fifteen essays a team of scholars considers many aspects of the 140 folios of this trilingual miscellany that preserves 121 items (or 122 depending on how one counts) from which we get a strange and privileged glimpse into the rich literary heritage that existed in England prior to the flourishing of vernacular poetry in the Richardian era. As the Contents indicates, the history and composition of the manuscript are considered, as are the Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin compositions that it preserves. This is a companion volume to the three volume complete edition of Harley 2253.
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Note on the Presentation of Text from MS Harley 2253 List of Plates, Tables, Figures, and Appendices Introduction: British Library MS Harley 2253: The Lyrics, the Facsimile, and the Book Scribe and Provenance Miscellany or Anthology? The Structure of Medieval Manuscripts: MS Harley 2253, for Example An Electric Stream: The Religious Contents Authority and Resistance: The Political Verse Historicity and Complaint in Song of the Husbandman Debate Verse Dreams and Dream Love Authors, Anthologies, and Franciscan Spirituality Frankis rimes here i redd, / Communlik in ilk[a] sted...: The French Bible Stories in Harley 2253 Anthologizing Ribaldry: Five Anglo-Norman Fabliaux Evading Textual Intimacy: The French Secular Verse A Saint Geynest under Gore: Marina and the Love Lyrics of the Seventh Quire Layout, Punctuation, and Stanza Patterns in English Verse The Language of the English Poems: The Harley Scribe and His Exemplars Harley 2253, Digby 86, and the Circulation of Literature in Pre-Chaucerian England Bibliography of Works Cited Index of Items in MS Harley 2253 Index of Manuscripts General Index, Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Note on the Presentation of Text from MS Harley 2253
List of Plates, Tables, Figures, and Appendices
Introduction: British Library MS Harley 2253: The Lyrics, the Facsimile, and the Book by Susanna Fein
Scribe and Provenance by Carter Revard
Miscellany or Anthology? The Structure of Medieval Manuscripts: MS Harley 2253, for Example by Theo Stemmler
An "Electric Stream": The Religious Contents by Michael P. Kuczynski
Authority and Resistance: The Political Verse by John Scattergood
Historicity and Complaint in Song of the Husbandman by Richard Newhauser
Debate Verse by Karl Reichl
Dreams and Dream Love by Helen Phillips
Authors, Anthologies, and Franciscan Spirituality by David L. Jeffrey
"Frankis rimes here i redd, / Communlik in ilk[a] sted...": The French Bible Stories in Harley 2253 by John J. Thompson
Anthologizing Ribaldry: Five Anglo-Norman Fabliaux by Barbara Nolan
Evading Textual Intimacy: The French Secular Verse by Mary Dove
A Saint "Geynest under Gore": Marina and the Love Lyrics of the Seventh Quire by Susanna Fein
Layout, Punctuation, and Stanza Patterns in English Verse by Elizabeth Solopova
The Language of the English Poems: The Harley Scribe and His Exemplars by Frances McSparran
Harley 2253, Digby 86, and the Circulation of Literature in Pre-Chaucerian England by Marilyn Corrie
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index of Items in MS Harley 2253
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Susanna Fein is a Professor of English at Kent State University, specializing in medieval English literature, particularly Chaucer and Manuscript Studies.
- Edited by Susanna Fein
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