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Interpreting MS Digby 86. A trilingual book from thirteenth-century Worcestershire /

Extravagantly heterogeneous in its contents, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 is an utterly singular production. On its last folio, the scribe signs off with a self-portrait - a cartoonishly-drawn male head wearing a close-fitted hood - and an inscription: "scripsi librum in anno et iii me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fein, Susanna (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: York : York Medieval Press, 2019.
Colección:Manuscript culture in the British Isles ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Digital Facsimiles of Frequently Cited Manuscripts; The Contents of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86; Note on the Presentation of MS Digby 86 Texts; Introduction; 1 Fellow Travellers with Saint Nicholas; 2 Anglo-Norman Religious Instruction in MS Digby 86: Echoes of Lateran IV; 3 Latin and Vernacular Prayers in MS Digby 86; 4 Science, Medicine, Prognostication: MS Digby 86 as a Household Almanac; 5 Literary Therapeutics: Experimental Knowledge in MS Digby 86
  • 6 Petrus Alfonsi, the Disciplina clericalis and Le Romaunz Peres Aunfour of MS Digby 867 Misogyny in MS Digby 86; 8 Gender Trouble? Fabliau and Debate in MS Digby 86; 9 The Middle English Poetry of MS Digby 86; 10 MS Digby 86 and Thirteenth-Century Scribal Poetics; 11 The Scarlet Letter: Experimentation, Design and Copying Practice in the Coloured Capitals of MS Digby 86; 12 Below Malvern: MS Digby 86, the Grimhills and the Underhills in their Regional and Social Context; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts Cited; General Index