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Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts

Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts

Fein, Susanna
Johnston, Michael
Smith, Dav

Hardcover

Series: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles, Book 5

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1903153514
ISBN13: 9781903153512
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Published: Apr 17 2014
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397- c.1465) copied the contents of two important manuscripts, Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 (the Lincoln manuscript), and London, British Library, MS Additional 31042 (the London manuscript) in the middle decades of the fifteenth century. Viewed in combination, his books comprise a rare repository of varied English and Latin literary, religious and medical texts that survived the dissolution of the monasteries, when so many other medieval books were destroyed. Residing in the texts he copied and used are many indicators of what this gentleman scribe of the North Riding read, how he practised his religion, and what worldly values he held for himself and his family.

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