1st Edition
John Shirley Book Production in the Noble Household in Fifteenth-century England
By Margaret Connolly
Copyright 1998
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
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.
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Connolly, Margaret
