Richard Call, the Pastons and the Manuscript Context of Robin Hood and the Potter (Cambridge University Library Ee. 4.35.1), with an Appendix on Dialect Analysis

Scribal Intrusion in the Texts of Gamelyn One of most important steps in the process of editing a manuscript is the identification and correction of the mistakes made by the scribe or scribes involved in its copying process in order to obtain the best text. In some cases, the changes introduced by the scribe, or by the editor who was supervising his work, can easily be noticed because we find out "physical" elements throughout the folio, such as dots under a word as a sign of expunction or carets indicating that a missing word is being added. However, there are many instances of scribal intrusion where only a detailed analysis of the text itself, or even the comparison of different manuscripts, can lead us to the identification of a modified reading. For instance, orthographical changes due to the dialectal provenance of the copyist, or altered lines with a regular aspect. The purpose of this article is to analyse the scribal amendments that appear in some of the earliest copies of The tale of Gamelyn: Corpus Christi College Oxford MS 198 (Cp), Christ Church Oxford MS 152 (Ch), Fitzwilliam Museum McClean 181 (Fi), British Library MS Harley 7334 (Ha4), Bodleian Library MS Hatton Donat. 1 (Ht), British Library MS Lansdowne 851 (La), Lichfield Cathedral MS 29 (Lc), Cambridge University Library Mm. 2.5 (Mm), Petworth House MS 7 (Pw) and British Library MS Royal 18 C.II (Ry2).

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Reseña de Edurne Garrido-Anes (2020) A Middle English Version of the Circa Instans, Middle English Texts Series, 59. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, pp. 209. ISBN 978-3-8253-4766-6

Revista de Lengua para Fines Específicos 21 1 ◽

10.20420/rlfe.2021.396 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 189-192

Author(s):

María José Esteve-Ramos

Keyword(s):

Middle English ◽

Medieval England ◽

Natural Consequence ◽

English Version ◽

English Edition ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Cambridge University ◽

University Library ◽

Late Medieval England ◽

Scholarly Attention

Medical and scientific manuscripts have been the interest of scholarly attention in recent decades and as a natural consequence, editions of unstudied material have flourished (Alonso-Almeida, 2014 or Marqués-Aguado, T. et alii, 2008, among others). This book is a Middle English edition of one of the most popular works circulating in the late medieval England, known as Circa Instans. This book presents a revised edition of the text found in CUL MS Es 1.13. ff 1r-91v, housed in the Cambridge University Library.

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A Previously Unpublished Letter of Introduction by an Andalusi Karaite (T-S 8J41.7)

Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos Sección Hebreo ◽

10.30827/meahhebreo.v70.22581 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 70 ◽

pp. 193-207

Author(s):

José Martínez Delgado ◽

Amir Ashur

Keyword(s):

Research Unit ◽

Religious Group ◽

First Person ◽

Cambridge University ◽

University Library ◽

Unpublished Letter ◽

Cairo Genizah

The document published in this article is a letter of introduction written by a Karaite Andalusi Jew upon his arrival to Egypt, on his route to Jerusalem. The text, which was deposited in the Cairo Genizah, is currently held at Cambridge University Library in the Taylor-Schechter Collection (Genizah Research Unit). Although undated, the text has the distinction of being the only known letter written by an Andalusi who presents himself as a Karaite, and is thus a first-person confirmation of the presence of this religious group in al-Andalus.

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Lancelot of the Laik and the Literary Manuscript Miscellany in 15th- and 16th-century Scotland

Insular Books ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197265833.003.0012 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Emily Wingfield

Keyword(s):

English Translation ◽

16Th Century ◽

British Isles ◽

Cambridge University ◽

University Library ◽

Scottish Parliament ◽

New Arcadia ◽

Selection Of ◽

Manuscript Copy

This chapter begins by introducing the most significant features of Scottish literary manuscript miscellanies, such as: their relatively late date, in comparison with surviving miscellanies from elsewhere in the British Isles; their copying by scribes who also functioned as notary publics, writers to the signet, and merchants; their links to some of Scotland’s most prominent book-owning families; and their inclusion of material derived from print and from south of the border. The remainder of the chapter offers a necessarily brief case study of one particular Older Scots literary manuscript miscellany (Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.1.5) in which the Older Scots romance, Lancelot of the Laik, is placed alongside a selection of Scottish courtesy texts and legal material, a series of English and Scottish prophecies, several acts of the Scottish parliament, an English translation of Christine de Pisan’s Livre du Corps de Policie, and the only surviving manuscript copy of Sir Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia.

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