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The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives

The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives

Fein, Susanna
Edwards, A. S. G.
Higgins, Ann

Hardcover

Series: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles, Book 7

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1903153654
ISBN13: 9781903153659
Publisher: York Medieval Pr
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.

Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence as to London commercial book production and the demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made? what end did it serve?

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