Tudor Manuscripts 1485-1603
English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 Volume 15
Distributed for British Library
This volume’s publication marks the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession. Featuring articles that examine a broad range of Tudor manuscripts produced between 1485 and 1603, Volume 15 includes: an examination of various forms of regional manuscript production, including those written in northern England and Scotland; a look at the differing texts emerging from London during this period, some complex and of an unusual kind; and studies of Thomas Wyatt’s poetical manuscripts and the circulations of those romances. Contributing scholars include Jason Powell, Joyce Boro, and Cathy Shrank.
Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt’s Verse
Jason Powell
London, British Library, Add. MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?
Julia Boffey
London, British Library, Harley MS 2252: John Colyns’ ‘Boke’: Structure and Content
Carol Meale
Miscellaneity and History: Reading Sixteenth-Century Romance Manuscripts
Joyce Boro
Manuscript, Print, and the Circulation of Dramatic Texts: a Reconsideration of the Manuscript of The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom
Tamara Atkin
Scribes and Secretaries of the Percy Earls of Northumberland, with Special Reference to William Peeris and Royal MS 18 D. 11
Pat Naylor
Exhortations to the Reader: the Glossing of Douglas’s Eneados in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.3.12
Jane Griffiths
‘Manuscript, Authenticity and “evident proofs” against the Scottish Queen’
Cathy Shrank
The Authorship of James VI and I’s Amatoria: The Manuscript Evidence
Priscilla Bawcutt
The Maitland Folia and Quarto Manuscript in Context
Joanna M. Martin & Katherine A. McClune
English Manuscripts at Auction January-December 2008
A. S. G. Edwards
Notes on Contributors
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Art: Photography
History: British and Irish History
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