Summary of Anthony G. Cains's Report on the Preparation of the Ellesmere Manuscript for the New Facsimile, the Repair (and History of Repair) of the Manuscript, and Its Rebinding
- Author / Editor
- Woodward, Daniel,and Maria Fredericks.
Summary of Anthony G. Cains's Report on the Preparation of the Ellesmere Manuscript for the New Facsimile, the Repair (and History of Repair) of the Manuscript, and Its Rebinding
- Published
- Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995): pp. 29-39.
- Physical Description
- 3 b&w figs.; 8 b&w photos.
- Description
- Summarizes the operations and observations attendant upon restoring, photographing, and rebinding Ellesmere during preparation of the new facsimile.
- Considers conservation necessary for the photography, new discoveries concerning the history of the manuscript and of its two bindings, repairs made during the present rebinding,and the process of rebinding the manuscript in an "early-fifteenth-century-English-style."
- Contributor
- Fredericks, Maria.
- Alternative Title
- The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.