The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts

Texts, Owners and Readers
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-903153-34-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 206 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 315 mm, Gewicht: 1256 g

Reihe: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles

A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue.

The Willoughby family, from Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, built up an extensive medieval library, including the notable Wollaton Antiphonal; theirs is the largest surviving library gathered by a gentry family of the period, the product of a single acquisitive burst, beginning around 1460 and mainly completed at about the time of the Dissolution in 1540. The manuscripts remain unique because of the very substantial core which survives more or less in situ, together with a huge collection of family archives, at the University of Nottingham, just a few miles from their original home.

This book focuses upon the ten manuscripts now in the Wollaton Library Collection as well asthe famous Antiphonal. Essays explore the history of the library and the Willoughby family, the books of Sir Thomas Chaworth, the art and function of the Antiphonal, the works of pastoral instruction, the decoration of the Frenchmanuscripts (including the earliest fully illustrated manuscript of romances), the Confessio Amantis, and the conservation of the collection. The essays are followed by a full catalogue of the Wollaton Library Collection aswell as of manuscripts and early printed books now dispersed as far afield as Tokyo and New York.

Contributors: Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones, Thorlac Turville-Petre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanna, Ralph

Turville-Petre, Thorlac

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stones, Alison

Bovey, Alixe

Pearsall, Derek

Johnston, Dorothy

Cole, Gavin

Hanna, Ralph

Lutton, Rob

Turville-Petre, Thorlac

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
The History of a Family Collection - Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre
Sir Thomas Chaworth's Books - Thorlac Turville-Petre and Gavin Cole
The Wollaton Antiphonal: Kinship and Commemoration - Alixe Bovey
Two French Manuscripts: WLC/LM/6 and WLC/LM/7 - Alison Stones
The Wollaton Hall Gower Manuscript (WLC/LM/8) Considered in the Context of Other Manuscripts of the Confessio Amantis - Derek Pearsall
Vice, Virtue and Contemplation: The Willoughbys' Religious Books and Devotional Interests - Rob Lutton
Minding and Mending: Issues in Curating the Medieval Manuscripts - Dorothy Johnston
Catalogue - Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre
Illustrations
Index to Manuscripts

Über Autor(innen)

Pearsall, Derek
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.