The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya

New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing. This acclaimed study of English medieval manuscripts and early printed books - many items from Professor Takamiya's own collection - quickly sold out in hardcover. The subjects range from Saint Jerome to Tolkien, with particular concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious and historical writings of the late middle ages. There are essays examining the work of early printers such as Caxton and de Worde, and of bibliophiles and antiquarians in modern times. Befitting a tribute to a bibliophile, this volume has been handsomely designed by Lida Kindersley of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge, and is extensively illustrated. The volume as a whole constitutes a substantial body of research on medieval English literature, and early books and manuscripts. Contributors: Richard Barber, Nicolas Barker, Richard Beadle, N.F. Blake, Julia Boffey, Piero Boitani, Derek Brewer, Helen Cooper, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, A.S.G. Edwards, P.J.C. Field, Christopher de Hamel, Ralph Hanna, Lotte Hellinga, Kristian Jensen, Edward Donald Kennedy, Richard A. Linenthal, Jill Mann, Takami Matsuda, David McKitterick, Rosamond McKitterick, Linne R. Mooney, Ruth Morse, Daniel W. Mosser, Tsuyoshi Mukai, Paul Needham, M.B. Parkes, Derek Pearsall, Oliver Pickering, P.R. Robinson, Michael G. Sargent, John Scahill, Kathleen L. Scott, Jeremy J. Smith, Isamu Takahashi, John J. Thompson, Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Yoko Wada, Bonnie Wheeler, Patrick Zutshi.

Table of Contents:
Toshiyuki Takamiya in Cambridge - Derek Brewer Takamiya MS 58 and the Transmission of Jerome's Letter Ep. 106 in the Early Middle Ages - Rosamond D McKitterick Phillipps Fragments in Tokyo - Christopher de Hamel A New Dante - Piero Boitani `Seven Sins' and Indulgences Restored: Towards a Reconstruction of London, British Library, MS Harley 913 - Yoko Wada Newly Identified Quotations in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale - Jill Mann Textual Variation and the Alliterative Tradition: Canterbury Tales I.2602-2619, the D Group and Takamiya MS 32 - Helen Cooper Gower in the Delamere Chaucer Manuscript - A S G Edwards Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale - Norman Blake The Organisation of the Latin Apparatus in Gower's Confessio Amantis: The Scribes and their Problems - Derek Pearsall Richard Frampton: A Commercial Scribe c. 1390 - c. 1420 - M B Parkes Takamiya MS 15: Some Liminal Observations - The Holland- Takamiya Manuscript of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ - Michael G Sargent Takamiya MS 60 and the Middle English Text of Bernard of Gordon's De Pronosticis - Linda Ehrsam Voigts The Illustrations of the Takamiya Polychronicon - Kathleen L Scott Hooked-G Scribes and Takamiya Manuscripts [with Daniel W. Mosser] - Linne R Mooney Johannes de Caritate, 'The Privyte Of Privyteis' - Nicolas Barker A `Prik of concience cheyned': the Parish Library of St Margaret's , New Fish Street, London, 1472 - P R Robinson Brotherton Collection MS 18 and its Riddling Middle English Verses - Oliver S Pickering A Pictoral Compendium in British Library MS Additional 37049 - Takami Matsuda Conflations of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost in Manuscript and Print - Julia Boffey A Letter Written by Thomas Betson, Brother of Syon Abbey - A I Doyle The Keio Copy of the Roger of St Albans Chronicle - John Scahill Sir Thomas Malory and the Holy Blood of the Hailes - Richard Barber De Worde and Malory - P J C Field Compositors' Practice: Resetting of Texts in Caxton's Printing- House - Lotte Hellinga The Canterbury Tales and the Rosary: A Mirror of Caxton's Devotions? - Paul Needham The Chronicle of Scotland in a Part and the Chronicle of John Hardyng - Edward Donald Kennedy Marginal glosses in Sir John Cheke's translation of the Bible - Jeremy J Smith Morgan MS M.956 and an Important Early Collector - Martha W Driver An Appropriation of the Book of St Albans by the Gentleman's Academie: Some Bibliographical Considerations - Tsuyoshi Mukai `Whole shyppes full' of Manuscripts: A Sixteenth-Century Vellum Wrapper - Richard Linenthal The Manuscripts of James Cobbes of Bury St Edmunds (c. 1602-1685) - Richard Beadle An Unrecorded London Sale of the Gutenberg Bible - Kristian Jensen Bishop Thomas Percy's Contributions to Langland Scholarship: Two Annotated Piers Plowman Prints in Belfast - John J. Thompson Leaning on Chaucer - Bonnie Wheeler Henry Bradshaw and the Book of Deer - Patrick N R Zutshi Sir Walter Greg and Medieval English Manuscripts: A Note - David McKitterick Lords of the Ring: Tolkein, Beowulf, and the memory of Song - Ruth Morse A Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya - Isamu Takahashi

About the Author :
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. 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. Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020). JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.

Review :
[A] beautifully produced and scholarly volume [that] approaches infallibility: not only its recipients but the editors, contributors, and all involved in its preparation and production should feel honoured by it. Physically splendid [with] an astonishingly large number of plates. A feast of a festschrift, a banquet of a book that should not be missed.