Representing the Middle English Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, A. S. G.
Representing the Middle English Manuscript
- Published
- Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 65-79.
- Description
- Edwards surveys attempts to "historicize" the representation of Middle English texts, from black letter type to computer transcription, focusing on the nineteenth-century efforts of Frederic Madden. Includes recurrent references representing the manuscripts and texts of Chaucer's works, praising Urry's 1721 attempt to describe his manuscripts, lamenting the paucity of facsimile pages in modern editions of Chaucer, and identifying the potential for full-color computer facsimiles.
- Alternative Title
- New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.