John Shirley: Book Production in the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9781138324794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 247 str.

Margaret Connolly

Opis

Published in 1998. John Shirley’s importance as a scribe of late fourteen-and early fifteenth-century vernacular poetry (in particular the works of Chauncer and Lydgate) has long been recognised. Not only did Shirley bring these works to the attention of a wider audience in his own time, but the survival of some if his manuscripts has perpetuated these texts for future generations of readers. Indeed, some of these poems are now only known through his manuscripts.

Spis treści

1. John Shirley: Biography  2. ‘Pis Litell Book’: MS BL Additional 16165  3. John Shirley, Esquire, of London  4. MS Trinity College Cambridge R.3.20, its Patterns and Progeny  5. Books Connected with John Shirley  6. Translations: ‘His Symple Warke’  7. His Last Anthology: MS Bodley Ashmole 59  8. Afterwards: The Lost Manuscripts and Shirley’s Successors  9. Conclusion.