
A Facsimile Edition of the Vernon Manuscript (Individuals Version)
A Literary Hoard from Medieval England
Wendy Scase(Editor)
Bodleian Library (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2012
Software
DVD-ROM
978-1-85124-329-7 (ISBN)
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Description
The Vernon Manuscript is one of the greatest treasures of early English literature and the arts of the book. It contains over 350 Middle English texts, among them Piers Plowman, the Ancrene Riwle, the South English Legendary, the Prick of Conscience, and the Miracles of the Virgin. A volume of massive dimensions, carefully copied and extensively decorated for pious readers c.1390-1400, it offers an incomparable resource for students of literature, art, culture, and language. For the first time, the entire manuscript is available here in an innovative, highly accessible format. The DVD-Rom contains a full facsimile with images of each page of the manuscript, visible at high magnification, and a complete 'live' transcription of the text with hyperlinks allows for powerful global searches across the entire text. Providing a new quality of access to this remarkable resource, this new edition is aimed at specialists and students in medieval literature, manuscript studies, palaeography, art history, and the history of the book.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
123 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85124-329-7 (9781851243297)
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03/2012
Bodleian Library
€395.20
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Persons
Wendy Scase is the Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.