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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The contribution of insular scribes of the seventh and eighth centuries to the "grammar of legibility" -- Tachygraphy in the Middle Ages : writing techniques employed for reportationes of lectures and sermons -- The influence of the concepts of ordinatio and compilatio on the development of the book -- The date of the Oxford Manuscript of La Chanson de Roland : Bodleian Library MS Digby 23 -- The scriptorium of Wearmouth-Jarrow -- The handwriting of St. Boniface : a reassessment of the problems -- The palaeography of the Parker Manuscript of the chronicle, laws and sedulius, and historiography at Winchester in the late ninth and the tenth centuries -- A fragment of an early-tenth-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript and its significance -- On the presumed date and possible origins of the manuscript of the Orrmulum : Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 1 -- The production of copies of the Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis in the early fifteenth century / with A.I. Doyle -- A fifteenth-century scribe : Henry Mere -- Copies of Boethius in Anglo-Saxon England : a note on Vatican, Bibl. Apost., MS Vat. Lat. 3363 -- An Anglo-Saxon text at Fleury : the manuscript of the Leiden Riddle -- The literacy of the laity -- Book provision and libraries at the Medieval University of Oxford -- Fragments of medieval manuscripts. |
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- History.
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Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Books -- England -- History -- 400-1400.
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Scriptoria -- England.
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Transmission of texts.
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Paleography, English.
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Scribes -- England.
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Palaeography, history
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Palaeography
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| ISBN |
1852850507 |
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9781852850500 |
| Description |
xxii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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