An edition of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29
<p>Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 is a late 15th-century manuscript which contains a large number of excerpts from diverse religious and secular medieval texts like the Vulgate, Caxton’s print of the <em>Polychronicon</em>, de Worde’s print <em>Information for pilgrims unto t...
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| Language: | English, Middle (1100-1500) |
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| author | Gillhammer, CC |
| author2 | Wakelin, D |
| author_facet | Wakelin, D Gillhammer, CC |
| author_sort | Gillhammer, CC |
| collection | OXFORD |
| description | <p>Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 is a late 15th-century manuscript which contains a large number of excerpts from diverse religious and secular medieval texts like the Vulgate, Caxton’s print of the <em>Polychronicon</em>, de Worde’s print <em>Information for pilgrims unto the Holy Land</em>, Chaucer’s <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, Peter of Poitiers’s <em>Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi</em>, Gower’s <em>Confessio Amantis</em>, a Holy Cross legend, Jacques Legrand’s <em>Book of Good Manners</em>, and <em>Mandeville’s Travels</em>. These texts are compiled in an idiosyncratic manner, forming a seamless prose history of the world, which starts with the creation of the world and ends incompletely with a description of Hannibal’s exploits. Written by a single compiler-scribe, the manuscript offers fascinating insights into methods of compilation employed by medieval historiographers at the close of the Middle Ages. Two other manuscripts in the same hand are extant – San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 144 and London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 84 – which show similarities in design and compilatory technique.</p>
<p>To date, MS 29 has received only little critical attention. This thesis presents for the first time a full edition and comprehensive study of the text. The thesis consists of two volumes, the first of which contains an analysis of the edited text, including a complete description, investigation of sources, linguistic analysis, discussion of genre, context, and audience, as well as a commentary. The second volume contains the edited text as an appendix (excluded from the word count, according to the regulations for DPhil theses).</p>
<p>The way in which the compiler of MS 29 interacts with and selects from his source texts provides a better understanding of medieval habits of reading and writing and of the cultural climate predominant at the time of the manuscript’s production. This extensive analysis thus serves as a detailed case study, which is relevant to a wide range of late medieval texts.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c3244a71-a6fa-4646-aeb3-9902e055a2902024-01-25T12:05:17ZAn edition of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29Thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:c3244a71-a6fa-4646-aeb3-9902e055a290English literature--Middle EnglishEnglish, Middle (1100-1500)ORA Deposit2019Gillhammer, CCWakelin, D<p>Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 is a late 15th-century manuscript which contains a large number of excerpts from diverse religious and secular medieval texts like the Vulgate, Caxton’s print of the <em>Polychronicon</em>, de Worde’s print <em>Information for pilgrims unto the Holy Land</em>, Chaucer’s <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, Peter of Poitiers’s <em>Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi</em>, Gower’s <em>Confessio Amantis</em>, a Holy Cross legend, Jacques Legrand’s <em>Book of Good Manners</em>, and <em>Mandeville’s Travels</em>. These texts are compiled in an idiosyncratic manner, forming a seamless prose history of the world, which starts with the creation of the world and ends incompletely with a description of Hannibal’s exploits. Written by a single compiler-scribe, the manuscript offers fascinating insights into methods of compilation employed by medieval historiographers at the close of the Middle Ages. Two other manuscripts in the same hand are extant – San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 144 and London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 84 – which show similarities in design and compilatory technique.</p> <p>To date, MS 29 has received only little critical attention. This thesis presents for the first time a full edition and comprehensive study of the text. The thesis consists of two volumes, the first of which contains an analysis of the edited text, including a complete description, investigation of sources, linguistic analysis, discussion of genre, context, and audience, as well as a commentary. The second volume contains the edited text as an appendix (excluded from the word count, according to the regulations for DPhil theses).</p> <p>The way in which the compiler of MS 29 interacts with and selects from his source texts provides a better understanding of medieval habits of reading and writing and of the cultural climate predominant at the time of the manuscript’s production. This extensive analysis thus serves as a detailed case study, which is relevant to a wide range of late medieval texts.</p> |
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