The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective

Acknowledgements  9

Karen Pratt / Bart Besamusca / Matthias Meyer / Ad Putter
Introduction  11

Bart Besamusca (Utrecht University)
The Patron and the Implied Readership of The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 76 E 5  41
Gerard Bouwmeester (Utrecht University)
Size Does Not Matter: On Characterising Medieval Multi-Text Codices  57

Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews)
What John Shirley Said About Adam: Authorship and Attribution in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20  81

Paolo Divizia (Masaryk University, Brno)
Texts and Transmission in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Multi-Text Codices  101

Daniël Ermens (Utrecht University)
Views on the Oudenaarde Verse Book 111

Karl G. Johansson (University of Oslo)
The Hauksbók: An Example of Medieval Modes of Collecting and Compilation 131

Kate Koppy (Marymount University)
The Findern Codex and the Blog In the Middle: Understanding Middle English Vernacular Manuscripts through the Lens of Social Media in the Twenty-First Century  147

Florian Kragl (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Codifying Genre: The Dresdener Heldenbuch 165

Kathy M. Krause (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 378 and the Gendered Visages of Allegorical Narrative  179

Matthias Meyer (Universität Wien) /
Nicola Zotz (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich)
How to Name a Story? Rubrics–Headings–Titles   203

Hannah Morcos (King’s College London)
Sens in Dialogue: The Manuscript Contexts of the Fables Pierre Aufons  217

Tamara Pérez-Fernández (University of Valladolid)
Shared Exemplars and the Creation of Miscellanies in the Manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde 241

Karen Pratt (King’s College London)
The Dynamics of the European Short Narrative in its Manuscript Context: The Case of Pyramus and Thisbe  257

Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham)
‘Looke this calender and then proced’: Tables of Contents in Medieval English Manuscripts  287

John Scattergood (Trinity College Dublin)
London, British Library, MS Harley 913 and Colonial Ireland in the Early Fourteenth Century  307

Thea Summerfield (Utrecht University)
‘Aprendre e enseigner’: The Contents of Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.1.1  327

Rachel Sweet (King’s College London)
No Text is an Island: The Chastelaine de Vergi’s Exemplarity in Context   347

Dieuwke van der Poel / Cécile de Morrée (Utrecht University)
Authorial and Editorial Roles in Song Manuscripts of the Devotio Moderna 367

Contributors’ Biographies  389 

Index of Manuscripts  395