Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World.
- Author / Editor
- De Hamel, Christopher.
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World.
- Published
- [London]: Allen Lane, 2016; New York: Penguin, 2017.
- Physical Description
- vii, 632 pp.
- Description
- Discusses twelve notable medieval manuscripts, recounting personal encounters with each in its library setting, emphasizing aesthetic appreciation, illustrations, and the exigencies of provenances, while including codicological descriptions and textual comments. Chapter 10, "The Hengwrt Chaucer: c. 1400, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 392 D" (pp. 426-65), explores the Sammelbände composition of the codex, posits the likelihood of a two-stage construction, and questions whether Adam Pinkhurst was its scribe and the possibility that Pinkhurst is named in Adam. The chapter includes nineteen color illustrations; its notes (pp. 573-610) are capacious.
- Alternative Title
- The Hengwrt Chaucer: c. 1400, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 392 D.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Adam Scriveyn