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Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range of secular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence as to London commercial book production and the demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made? what end did it serve? |
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9781903153659
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2016-01-01
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York Medieval Press
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Permalink | https://oaks.kent.edu/facultybooks/94 |
The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives
Fein, S. (2016). The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives (1–). York Medieval Press. https://oaks.kent.edu/node/1771
Fein, Susanna. 2016. “The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives”. York Medieval Press. https://oaks.kent.edu/node/1771.
Fein, Susanna. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives. York Medieval Press, 1 Jan. 2016, https://oaks.kent.edu/node/1771.