Interpreting MS Digby 86 : a trilingual book from thirteenth-century Worcestershire / edited by Susanna Fein.

A range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical, codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant manuscript.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Fein, Susanna, 1950- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2019.
Series:Manuscript culture in the British Isles ; 9.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Digital Facsimiles of Frequently Cited Manuscripts; The Contents of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86; Note on the Presentation of MS Digby 86 Texts; Introduction; 1 Fellow Travellers with Saint Nicholas; 2 Anglo-Norman Religious Instruction in MS Digby 86: Echoes of Lateran IV; 3 Latin and Vernacular Prayers in MS Digby 86; 4 Science, Medicine, Prognostication: MS Digby 86 as a Household Almanac; 5 Literary Therapeutics: Experimental Knowledge in MS Digby 86
  • 6 Petrus Alfonsi, the Disciplina clericalis and Le Romaunz Peres Aunfour of MS Digby 867 Misogyny in MS Digby 86; 8 Gender Trouble? Fabliau and Debate in MS Digby 86; 9 The Middle English Poetry of MS Digby 86; 10 MS Digby 86 and Thirteenth-Century Scribal Poetics; 11 The Scarlet Letter: Experimentation, Design and Copying Practice in the Coloured Capitals of MS Digby 86; 12 Below Malvern: MS Digby 86, the Grimhills and the Underhills in their Regional and Social Context; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts Cited; General Index