New science out of old books : studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A.I. Doyle
- Title
- New science out of old books : studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A.I. Doyle / edited by Richard Beadle and A.J. Piper.
- Published by
- Aldershot, Hants., England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 1995.
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- Description
- xi, 455 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 25 cm
- Summary
- This international collection of original studies of late-medieval English manuscripts and early-modern printed books celebrates the life-long work of A.I. Doyle, formerly keeper of Rare Books at Durham University Library and Emeritus Reader in Bibliography. The broad character of Doyle's research interests is reflected in the wide range of areas covered by these essays, from late-medieval book production, textual transmission and reception, to the part books played in the lives of English people from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. New Science out of Old Books brings together these varied interests in a body of scholarship which not only honours but continues to extend the research of one of the leading authorities on medieval English books. It is illustrated with over 60 plates, the majority showing hitherto unreproduced features of manuscripts and early printed books, and concludes with a bibliography of Doyle's own writings.
- Subject
- Doyle, A. I. 1925-2018
- Doyle, A. I. 1925-2018
- Doyle, A. I. 1925-
- 1100-1500
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Criticism, Textual
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern > England > Criticism, Textual
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England
- Early printed books > England > Bibliography
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Paleography, English
- Paleography
- Rare books
- Paleography
- Manuscripts as Topic > history
- Literature, Medieval > history
- Rare Books
- Printing > history
- paleography
- Rare books
- Early printed books
- English literature > Middle English
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Paleography, English
- Engelse handschriften
- Oude drukken
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern > Criticism, Textual
- Manuscripts, English (Middle) > History
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Great Britain > History
- Bibliography > Great Britain > Early printed books
- England
- Genre/Form
- Bibliographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Festschriften.
- Contents
- Preface / A.J. Piper -- 1. From flax to parchment: a monastic sermon from twelfth-century Durham / Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse -- 2. Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 335: its texts and their transmission / Margaret Laing and Angus McIntosh -- 3. Trial and Error: Wyclif's works in Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.16.2 / Anne Hudson -- 4. Patterns of scribal activity and revisions of the text in early copies of works by John Gower / M.B. Parkes -- 5. The problem of uniformity in Carthusian book production, from the Opus Pacis to the Tertia Compilatio Statutorum / Michael G. Sargent -- 6. Limning and book-producing terms and signs in situ in late-medieval English manuscripts: a first listing / Kathleen L. Scott -- 7. 'On the Evils of Covetousness': an unrecorded Middle English poem / Toshiyuki Takamiya -- 8. Serving the needs of readers: textual division in some late-medieval English texts / George R. Keiser.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.