Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 is a manuscript of great significance for both the English and Scottish late medieval literary traditions. The last of the great Chaucerian manuscript anthologies, it contains texts of Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and The Parliament of Fowlsalongside shorter works and various pieces of Chauceriana, and offers substantial evidence of the Scottish reception of Chaucer; it is also amongthe earliest Scottish literary anthologies, with the unique surviving copies of The Kingis Quair and The Quare of Jealousy. The complex history of the manuscript's production and decoration and sheds an interesting light on some of the processes by which anthologies were compiled.
Access to MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 has for some time been restricted because of its fragile condition, a factor which has made its systematic study more difficult; moreover, the production of a facsimile has brought to light featuresof its construction and history not previously apparent. These, together with questions of literary and historical context, are addressed in the Introduction to the facsimile; the Appendix, supplied by Dr BRUCE BARKER-BENFIELDof the Bodleian Library, provides technical notes and a collation chart. This new facsimile makes the manuscript generally available to a scholarly audience for the first time.
Dr JULIA BOFFEY teaches in the Department of English, Queen Mary and Westfield College; Professor A.S.G. EDWARDS teaches in the Department of English at the University of Victoria.
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Important facsimile... [Its] availability will surely lead to work being done on the poems in it. Poems by Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Clanvowe, as well as The Quare of Ielusyand shorter pieces in stanza form make this a major compilation... Oursis the age of good facsimiles, of which this is an example... it should ensure that the manuscript itself will last another five hundred years because it is now rasonable to deny access to it almost always. NOTES & QUERIESA major scholarly event. RARE BOOKS NEWSLETTER Excellent facsimile. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES A facsimile of major importance to the study of the Chaucer tradition and of late-medieval Scottish literary activity, made doubly valuable by the authors' scrupulous investigates of its history. * MLR *
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Höhe: 280 mm
Breite: 200 mm
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978-0-85991-476-5 (9780859914765)
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JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. A. S. G. Edwards has taught at various universities in North America and England and currently holds honorary professorships at the University of Kent, University College, London, and King's College, London.
