Middle English Manuscripts and their Legacies

Corinne Saunders, D.Phil. (1991), Oxford, is Professor of Medieval Literature and co-directs the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. Her publications include Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance (2010) and Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020). Richard Lawrie, Ph.D (2013), Durham University, served as Vice-Master and Senior Tutor of University College, Durham, and was previously Secretary of the Senior Common Room of University College, a role in which he worked closely with Ian Doyle. He has taught in the departments of History and Education at Durham. Laurie Atkinson is a PhD student in the Department of English Studies, Durham University, preparing for examination. He has published on Thomas Hoccleve, Stephen Hawes, and William Dunbar, and is now developing a postdoctoral research project on early English print.

Acknowledgements


List of Plates


Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors


Introduction


 Corinne Saunders and Richard Lawrie





part 1: Manuscript and Text


1 Richard Rolle’s ‘Valde Intimus Socius’: A Search for William Stoups


 Ralph Hanna





2 Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 3540: The Manuscript and Its Provenance


 Susan Powell





3 Chaucer in Small Parcels: Odd Texts of Chaucer’s Short Poems, and Their Manuscript Contexts


 Julia Boffey





part 2: Medieval Preservations


4 Our Imperfect Knowledge: John Dygon and Joanna Greenwood versus Andrew Holes


 David Rundle





5 John Erghome and the Library of the Austin Friars of York


 James Willoughby





6 The Trevelyan Archive: An Introduction to the Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries


 Carol M. Meale





part 3: Manuscripts in Print


7 There and Back Again: Manuscripts after Printing


 Martha W. Driver





8 John Warrin’s Book and the English Catholic Community


 William Marx





9 Unearthing the History of an Early Printed Sermon: John Fisher and St John’s College, Cambridge


 Veronica O’Mara





part 4: The Afterlives of Manuscripts


10 ‘Pope’s Chaucer’


 Richard Gameson





11 An English Heraldic Artist: Henry VII’s Man or Studio Artist?


 Kathleen L. Scott





12 Three Medieval Sermons and Their Victorian Printer: Charles Clark and the Dismembering of John Rylands MS English 109


 Margaret Connolly





13 Bradshaw, Durham, and Doyle


 Richard Beadle





part 5: Manuscripts and the Work of Ian Doyle


14 Ian Doyle at Cambridge


 A.S.G. Edwards





15 Ian Doyle in Durham


 Elizabeth Rainey





16 Ian Doyle as a Palaeographer


 Pamela Robinson





17 An Homage to Ian Doyle from a Former Student


 Toshiyuki Takamiya





Afterword


 Linne Mooney and Derek Pearsall





A List of the Publications of A.I. Doyle


 Elizabeth Rainey with the assistance of A.S.G. Edwards





Index