Rediscovered manuscript fragments of The Prick of Conscience in the library of Queens’ College, Cambridge
This article describes and discusses nine previously unrecorded fragments of a lost copy of The Prick of Conscience. I combine close examination of the fragments themselves with quantitative data gathered from more than ninety other copies of the poem to reconstruct the manuscript they represent in...
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Cambridge Bibliographical Society
2015
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| Summary: | This article describes and discusses nine previously unrecorded fragments of a lost copy of The Prick of Conscience. I combine close examination of the fragments themselves with quantitative data gathered from more than ninety other copies of the poem to reconstruct the manuscript they represent in a somewhat experimental exercise in reconstructive codicology. I also bring out these fragments' implications for the debate over the sheer size of the corpus of surviving copies. A transcription of the text on the fragments is included in an appendix. |
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