Latin and vernacular : studies in late-medieval texts and manuscripts / edited by A.J. Minnis
1989, 1st edition. Cambridge [England] ; Wolfeboro, N.H., USA : D.S. Brewer. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425900
ISBN: 0859912868
Physical description; 155 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; "Collection of new essays which are expansions and elaborations of papers read at the York Manuscripts Conference held in July 1987"--Editor's pref. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; 'Compilatio' and the Wife of Bath: Latin backgrounds, Ricardian texts / Ralph Hanna III--Gower's Latin in the 'Confessio Amantis' / Derek Pearsall--English and Latin versions of FitzRalph's sermons / T. P. Dolan--The evolution of the 'Speculum Christiani' / Vincent Gillespie--Four middle English translations of John of Arderne / Peter Murray Jones--The character of the 'Carecter': ambiguous sigils in scientific and medical texts / Linda Ehsram Voigts--Books, owners and makers in fifteenth-century Yorkshire: the evidence from some wills and extant manuscripts / J. B. Friedman--The European circulation of three Latin spiritual texts / A. I. Doyle. Subjects; 1100 - 1500. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) England Yorkshire ; Congresses. Manuscripts, English (Middle) England Yorkshire ; Congresses. Latin literature, Medieval and modern England Yorkshire Criticism, Textual ; Congresses. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 Criticism, Textual ; Congresses.
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