The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts

Orietta Da Rold is University Lecturer in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. Her publications include The Dd Manuscript: A Digital Edition of Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.4.24 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (2013) and she has just completed a project entitled From Pulp to Fictions: Paper in Medieval England. Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Robert K. Packard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University, California, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, and the English Association. A qualified archivist, she has published more than thirty books, and sixty articles in early medieval literature and the history of text technologies.

Introduction. The matter of manuscripts and methodologies Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne; Part I. How Do We Study the Manuscript?: 1. Describing and cataloguing medieval English manuscripts: a checklist Richard Beadle and Ralph Hanna; 2. Reading a manuscript description Donald Scragg; 3. Reading and understanding scripts Julia Crick and Dan Wakelin; 4. Working with images in manuscripts Beatrice Kitzinger; 5. The sum of the book: structural codicology and medieval manuscript culture Ryan Perry; Part II. Why Do We Study the Manuscript?: 6. Networks of writers and readers Elaine Treharne and Orietta Da Rold; 7. The written word: literacy across languages Jane Gilbert and Sara Harris; 8. The Wycliffite Bible Elizabeth Solopova; 9. Editing medieval manuscripts for modern audiences Helen Fulton; 10. Where were books made and kept? Tessa Webber; Part III. Where Do We Study the Manuscript?: 11. Charming the snake: accessing and disciplining the medieval manuscript Sian Echard and Andrew Prescott; 12. The curation and display of digital medieval manuscripts Suzanne Paul; 13. The trade A. S. G. Edwards; Further reading; Index.