Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix

300 Pages·2007·11.1 MB·English

by  Martha Dana Rust (auth.)

ImaginaryWorlds in
Medieval Books

Imaginary Worlds in
Medieval Books
Exploring the Manuscript Matrix
M D R
artha ana ust
IMAGINARYWORLDSINMEDIEVALBOOKS
© Martha Dana Rust,2007.
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: The Medieval Manuscript Matrix:
AStoried Realm 1
Chapter 1 Into the Manuscript Matrix: Middle
Letters for Readers of a Middle Sort 31
Chapter 2 “Straunge” Letters and Strange Loops
in Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden. B.24 81
Chapter 3 John’s Page: AConfessio Amantis[librorum]
in Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.126 117
Afterword: ALife in Books: Habits and Habitats
of Ricardus Franciscus 165
Appendix 179
Notes 185
Bibliography 249
Index 271

List of Illustrations
I.1 Beaufort or Beauchamp Hours: London, British
Library Royal MS 2.A.XVIII, fol. 23v 2
I.2 Beaufort or Beauchamp Hours: London, British
Library Royal MS 2.A.XVIII, fol. 24 3
I.3 The Sherborne Missal: London, British Library
Addition MS 74236, p. 51 6
I.4 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16, fol. 133v 23
1.1 Glasgow, Glasgow University Library, Hunter
MS 472 (V.6.22), fol. 1 42
1.2 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson B.408,
fol. 3r 45
1.3 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 789,
fols. 155v–156r 54
1.4 Oxford, St. John’s College Library MS 94, fol. 2v 58
1.5 Book of the Fraternity of Our Lady’s Assumption
(London, Worshipful Company of Skinners
MS 31692), fol. 41 62
1.6 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 638,
fols. 203v–204 63
1.7 London, British Library Harley MS 541, fol. 228v 75
1.8 London, British Library Harley MS 541, fol. 228r 77
2.1 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden.B.24,
fol. 110r 84
2.2 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden.B.24,
fol. 111v 85
2.3 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden.B.24,
fol. 114v 86
2.4 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden.B.24,
fol. 115r 87
2.5 Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden.B.24,
fol. 1r opening initial 89