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Felicity Riddy, ed.
Prestige, Authority and Power in Late-Medieval Manuscripts and Texts.
York Medieval Press/Boydell Press, 2000.
York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series.
ISBN 0952973464.
Hardback, stitch bound.
161x241x20mm.
viii,200pp inc.19 monochrome illustrations, plus a frontispiece and a foldout reproduction of the Troilus frontispiece (Cambridge CCC MS61), both in colour.
English.
Very good (unused) condition.This item £27.50
[Publisher's price £55.00/$90.00]
650g.
A selection of papers from the 1994 York Manuscripts Conference. Contents:
[BML/SP1]
Reynolds, Inventing authority - glossing, literacy & the classical text;
Ghosh, Mss of Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus & Wycliffite notions of 'authority';
Harris, Patronage & dating of Longleat MS 24, a prestige copy of the Pupilla Oculi illuminated by the master of the Troilus frontispiece;
Scott, Limner-power - a book artist in England c. 1420;
Thompson, A poet's contacts with the great & the good - Hoccleve's texts & mss;
Meale, Politics of book ownership - The Hopton family & Bodleian Digby MS 185;
Dutton, Piety, politics & persona - Harley MS 4012 & Anne Harling;
Erler, The Abbess of Malling's gift ms (1520);
Carley, "Plutarch's" Life of Agesilaus - a new year's gift to Thomas Cromwell by Henry Parker, Lord Morley;
Carlson, Mss after printing - affinity, dissent & display in the texts of Wyatt's Psalms.
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