Studies in the Vernon Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek, ed.
Studies in the Vernon Manuscript
- Published
- Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990.
- Physical Description
- xi, 238 pp.
- Description
- Thirteen essays by diverse hands discuss what Pearsall describes as the largest manuscript "the student of vernacular literature will ever be likely to have to deal with"--"a comprehensive programme of religious reading and instruction" (x). Five of the essays address the manuscript descriptively or codicologically; two each consider the romances included and refrain-lyrics; and four assess other literary forms or issues--homilies, Miracles of the Virgin, verse laments, and a tabular Pater Noster.
- Throughout, comparison with contemporary materials is a dominant concern.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.