The Planning and Construction of the Ellesmere Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Parkes, M. B.
The Planning and Construction of the Ellesmere Manuscript
- Published
- Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 41-47.
- Description
- Codicologically, Ellesmere was constructed by methods commonly used for fifteenth-century English books, including techniques by which "the scribe and the artists accommodated their work so precisely to the format predetermined by the size and number of leaves" and made a good fit for all elements of the book.
- Parkes discusses preparation of the skins for the pages, plus "practices of the scribe" in accommodating the text, the marginalia, and the illustrations.
- Alternative Title
- The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.