Piers Plowman
A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Douce 104
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1992
D.S. Brewer (Verlag)
978-0-85991-345-4 (ISBN)
D.S. Brewer (Verlag)
978-0-85991-345-4 (ISBN)
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Facsimile edition of the C-Text of Piers Plowman with fascinating marginal illustrations from a 15c reader.
William Langland's Piers Plowmanis one of the most important poems of the English Middle Ages. It is also a poem that gains in an exceptional way from the study of its manuscript sources, and it has played a vital part in debates about textual criticism and editing. The copy of Piers Plowmanwhich forms the only contents of Bodleian Library MS Douce 104 is a version of the C-Text, and has its part to play in the debate. The present facsimileis the first of either of the two longer versions of the poem to appear for over fifty years.
Douce 104 has a unique and more particular claim on our attention. It contains 72 marginal illustrations which provide a record of the response to the poem of an early fifteenth-century reader of exceptional intelligence and literary understanding - a wonderful opportunity to examine an authentic near-contemporary reaction to one of the greatest poems of the English middle ages.DEREK PEARSALLis Guiney Professor of English at Harvard University. KATHLEEN SCOTTteaches at Michigan State University.
William Langland's Piers Plowmanis one of the most important poems of the English Middle Ages. It is also a poem that gains in an exceptional way from the study of its manuscript sources, and it has played a vital part in debates about textual criticism and editing. The copy of Piers Plowmanwhich forms the only contents of Bodleian Library MS Douce 104 is a version of the C-Text, and has its part to play in the debate. The present facsimileis the first of either of the two longer versions of the poem to appear for over fifty years.
Douce 104 has a unique and more particular claim on our attention. It contains 72 marginal illustrations which provide a record of the response to the poem of an early fifteenth-century reader of exceptional intelligence and literary understanding - a wonderful opportunity to examine an authentic near-contemporary reaction to one of the greatest poems of the English middle ages.DEREK PEARSALLis Guiney Professor of English at Harvard University. KATHLEEN SCOTTteaches at Michigan State University.
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
The illustrations of MS Douce 104, Kathleen Scott; Appendices: The manuscripts of "Piers Plowman", Derek Pearsall; MS Douce 104 - decorative analysis, Kathleen Scott; a preliminary list of late 14th and 15th century English manuscripts with marginal illustrations, Kathleen Scott.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.10.1992 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 62 colour. 5 b/w. |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85991-345-7 / 0859913457 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85991-345-4 / 9780859913454 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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