Prestige, authority, and power in late medieval manuscripts and texts / edited by Felicity Riddy
2000. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : York Medieval Press. Good copy only, in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some damage to front board. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #443739
ISBN: 0952973464
Physical description: vii, 199 pages : illustrations (some color). Series: York Manuscripts Conferences: proceedings series ; 4. Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Plates; Introduction; Inventing Authority: Glossing, Literacy and the Classical Text; Manuscripts of Nicholas Love's The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ and Wycliffite Notions of Àuthority'; The Patronage and Dating of Longleat House MS 24, a Prestige Copy of the Pupilla Oculi Illuminated by the Master of the Troilus Frontispiece; Limner-Power: A Book Artist in England c. 1420; A Poet's Contacts with the Great and the Good: Further Consideration of Thomas Hoccleve's Texts and Manuscripts. Subjects: Manuscripts, English Social aspects History. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) Social aspects England. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism.
Price: €35.00