Manuscript and Print in London c.1475-1530
Distributed for British Library
246 pages
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8 color plates, 75 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2012
What perceptions did people have of printed material after its introduction into England? How did these perceptions determine their own practices in dealing with books and documents—both as producers and consumers? In Manuscript and Print in London c.1475–1530, Julia Boffey explores the evolving relationship of Londoners with handwritten manuscripts and printed material after William Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476. Drawing from a wide range of surviving materials from the period, Boffey approaches textual production from the points of view of readers and writers, investigating the choices they made and shedding light on the different ways that both adapted to the availability of the new technology. Copiously illustrated with images from manuscripts and printed books, this volume will break new ground in the growing area of scholarship on print culture and the history of the book.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on conventions
Abbreviations
List of colour plates
List of figures
Introduction
Colour plates
Note on conventions
Abbreviations
List of colour plates
List of figures
Introduction
Colour plates
Chapter 1: London books, in manuscript and print, c.1500
Introduction: two London books
Books made and books used in London
London texts and London authors
Textual transmission: within, into, and out of London
Afterlives
Chapter 2: Manuscript and print in combination
Introduction: some arbitrary assemblages
Manuscripts and printers
Printed books in the hands of scribes and manuscript compilers
Manuscript additions to printed text
Enhancement and decoration
Binding and storage
Hybridity
Chapter 3: London-specific material in manuscript and print
Introduction: manuscript or print? choice of form
London-specific materials
Works relating to ceremonies and public events
The spoken word: sermons and orations
Comic satires
Covert circulation of political satire and commentary
Prison writing, sedition, and heresy
Chapter 4: London readers in a time of change
Introduction
Sources of supply and prices
Books in institutional libraries
Reading in London’s religious houses: the London Charterhouse
Women readers and printed books: Syon and the Minoresses
Company networks: Caxton and fellow-mercers
Some London drapers and their books
Chapter 5: Robert Fabyan: reading and compiling in manuscript and print
Introduction: Fabyan’s life
Two chronicles: compilation and copying
Fabyan’s reading
The further circulation of the ‘concordance of stories’
Pynson’s edition of the ‘New Chronicles’ and the manuscript copies
New features in the printed ‘New Chronicles’
Was Fabyan involved in the printed edition?
Fabyan’s textual afterlife
Afterword
Bibliography
Index of manuscripts
Index of printed books
General index
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