A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts
A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-119-06731-3 (ISBN)
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Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.
Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance
Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
Increases accessibility through a rubric organized around archival and manuscript studies; the provenance of texts and the authority of editions; and studies of genre, religion and literary history
Announces the recovery of archival documents, which in some instances are over four hundred years old
Places translations of Milton's Latin, Greek, and Italian alongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wide audience of students and scholars
Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s
Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance
Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
Increases accessibility through a rubric organized around archival and manuscript studies; the provenance of texts and the authority of editions; and studies of genre, religion and literary history
Announces the recovery of archival documents, which in some instances are over four hundred years old
Places translations of Milton's Latin, Greek, and Italian alongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wide audience of students and scholars
Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s
Reviews / Votes
"At a time when so much literary theory seems to disdain engagement with textual artifacts, this volume reminds us of the critical importance of the forensic analysis of modes of literary production and transmission by asserting that literature is always a handicraft, a thing made to be possessed and repossessed."-Stephen W. Brown, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Journal, 2016
"A valuable set of essays by major scholars analyzing reading, writing, and transmission practices as they pertain to Early Modern English manuscripts and printed books. The essays illustrate general principles by close examination of a particular text, including several by Milton and Shakespeare."
-Barbara Lewalski, Harvard University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Annotated edition
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
613 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-06731-3 (9781119067313)
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Edward Jones
A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts
A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
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A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts
A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
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Edward Jones
A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts
A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
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08/2015
Wiley-Blackwell
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Edward Jones is a Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and the Editor of Milton Quarterly. His research interests centre on seventeenth-century archival records created by the English state, church, and parish and how such documents inform the life and writings of John Milton. Book-length publications include Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 and , Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642. A selection of his essays can be found in RES, JEGP, A Concise Companion to Milton, The Oxford Handbook of Milton, and Milton in Context.
Content
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction xv
Edward Jones
Part I Manuscript Studies 1
1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3
Elaine Treharne
2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21
Sarah Knight
3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41
William Poole
4 Young Milton in His Letters 66
John K. Hale
5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87
Edward Jones
6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106
Cedric C. Brown
Part II Printed Books 129
7 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131
Neil Harris
8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150
Karen L. Edwards
9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171
Thomas N. Corns
10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188
Jameela Lares
Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207
11 Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209
John Creaser
12 Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229
N.H. Keeble
13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249
Martin Dzelzainis
14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266
Sharon Achinstein
15 Hands On 294
Neil Forsyth
16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Mueller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322
Pascale Aebischer
By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346
Andrew McNeillie
Index 354
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction xv
Edward Jones
Part I Manuscript Studies 1
1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3
Elaine Treharne
2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21
Sarah Knight
3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41
William Poole
4 Young Milton in His Letters 66
John K. Hale
5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87
Edward Jones
6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106
Cedric C. Brown
Part II Printed Books 129
7 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131
Neil Harris
8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150
Karen L. Edwards
9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171
Thomas N. Corns
10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188
Jameela Lares
Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207
11 Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209
John Creaser
12 Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229
N.H. Keeble
13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249
Martin Dzelzainis
14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266
Sharon Achinstein
15 Hands On 294
Neil Forsyth
16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Mueller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322
Pascale Aebischer
By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346
Andrew McNeillie
Index 354