Leeds Studies in English

New Series XLI

2010

Essays in Honour of Oliver Pickering

Edited by

Janet Burton, William Marx, and Veronica O’Mara

Leeds Studies in English School of English University of Leeds 2010 Oliver Pickering: Publications

1. Medieval period

‘A Newe Lessoun off Crystys Ressurrectoun: A Second Manuscript, and its Use of La Estorie del Evangelie’, English Philological Studies, 13 (1972), 43–48.

‘An Unrecognized Extract from the South English Legendary’, Notes and Queries, 217 (1972), 407.

‘Some Similarities between Queen Mary’s Psalter and the Northern Passion’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 35 (1972), 135–44.

‘The Temporale Narratives of the South English Legendary’, Anglia, 91 (1973), 425–55.

‘An Unpublished Middle English Resurrection Poem’, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 74 (1973), 269–82.

(ed.), The South English Nativity of Mary and Christ, Middle English Texts, 1 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1975). 117 pp.

‘Three South English Legendary Nativity Poems’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 8 (1975), 105–19.

‘The Expository Temporale Poems of the South English Legendary’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 10 (1978), 1–17.

‘A Middle English Poem on the Eucharist and Other Poems by the Same Author’, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 215 (1978), 281–310.

‘Notes on the Sentence of Cursing in Middle English; or, A Case for the Index of Middle English Prose’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 12: Essays in Honour of A. C. Cawley (1981), 229–44.

‘A Newly-Discovered Manuscript of the South English Legendary’ [with Manfred Görlach], Anglia, 100 (1982), 109–23.

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‘A Third Text of ‘Say me viit in þe brom’’, English Studies, 63 (1982), 20–22.

‘Devotional Elements in Two Early Middle English Lives of Christ’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 14: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Salter (1983), 152–66.

(ed.), The South English Ministry and Passion, Middle English Texts, 16 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1984). 256 pp.

‘The Southern Passion and the Ministry and Passion: The Work of a Middle English Reviser’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 15 (1984), 33–56.

‘An Early Middle English Verse Inscription from Shrewsbury’, Anglia, 106 (1988), 411–14.

‘A Middle English Prose Miracle of the Virgin, with Hidden Verses’, Medium Aevum, 57 (1988), 219–39.

The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist VI: A Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Libraries and Archives [with Susan Powell] (Cambridge: Brewer, 1989). xviii, 81 pp.

‘The Present Popularity of Middle English Manuscript Studies: Some Recent Work Re- viewed’, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 226 (1989), 99–106.

‘Brotherton Collection MS 501: A Middle English Anthology Reconsidered’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 21 (1990), 141–65.

‘A Sermon-Related Latin Manuscript in Leeds University Library’, Medieval Sermon Studies, 28 (1991), 61–64.

‘The “Defence of Women” from the Southern Passion: A New Edition’, in The South English Legendary: A Critical Assessment, ed. by Klaus P. Jankofsky (Tübingen: Francke, 1992), pp. 154–76.

‘Manuscript Replacement of Leaves in a Copy of Thielmann Kerver’s Printed Sarum Hours of 1497’, Scriptorium, 46 (1992), 62–66.

‘Newly-Discovered Secular Lyrics from Later Thirteenth-Century Cheshire’, Review of Eng- lish Studies, n.s. 43 (1992), 157–80.

‘A Chronicle in Yorkshire: An Addendum to Handlist VI of the Index of Middle English Prose’, Notes and Queries, 238 (1993), 305–07.

‘Irish Saints in Twelfth-Century Shropshire? Middle English and Latin Evidence’, Anglia, 112 (1994), 115–22.

234 Publications ‘The Outspoken South English Legendary Poet’, in Late-Medieval Religious Texts and their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A. I. Doyle, ed. by A. J. Minnis (Cambridge: Brewer, 1994), pp. 21–37.

‘The Computerisation of the Index of Middle English Prose: The Way Forward?’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 27 (1996), 163–71.

‘The South English Legendary: Teaching or Preaching?’, Poetica, 45 (Spring 1996), 1–14.

(ed.), Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry (Cambridge: Brewer, 1997). xi, 227 pp.

‘Middle English Metaphysical Verse? Imagery and Style in Some Fourteenth-Century Rel- igious Poems’, in Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry, pp. 85–104.

‘The Crusades in Leeds University Library’s Genealogical History Roll’, in From Clermont to Jerusalem: The Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095–1500, ed. by Alan V. Murray (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 251–66.

‘Poetic Style and Poetic Affiliation in the Castle of Perseverance’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29: Essays in Honour of Peter Meredith (1998), 275–91.

‘The Enduring Popularity of Thirteenth-Century Verse: The Estorie del Evangelie and the Vernon Manuscript’, in Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake, ed. by Geoffrey Lester (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 317–33.

The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XIII: Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, including those formerly in Sion College Library [with V. M. O’Mara] (Cambridge: Brewer, 1999). xxviii, 133 pp.

‘A New Manuscript Fragment of the Northern Homily Cycle’, Journal of the Early Book Society, 4 (2001), 267–80.

‘South English Legendary Style in Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle’, Medium Aevum, 70 (2001), 1–18.

‘The South English Legendary, Confession, and Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.1’, in Of dyuersitie & chaunge of langage: Essays Presented to Manfred Görlach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, ed. by Katja Lenz and Ruth Möhlig (Heidelberg: Winter, 2002), pp. 379–89.

‘Brotherton Collection MS 18 and its Riddling Middle English Verses’, in The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, ed. by Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo Press, 2004), pp. 223–32.

235 Publications ‘Saints’ Lives’, in A Companion to Middle English Prose, ed. by A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: Brewer: 2004), pp. 249–70.

‘A Neglected Copy of John Mirk’s Mary Magdalene Sermon’ [with Susan Powell], Medieval Sermon Studies, 49 (2005), 59–68.

‘Stanzaic Verse in the Auchinleck Manuscript: The Alphabetical Praise of Women’, in Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood, ed. by Anne Marie D’Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 287–304.

‘Two English-Language Documents from Pre-Dissolution Marrick Priory, ’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 37: Essays for Joyce Hill on her Sixtieth Birthday (2006), 415–26.

‘The Medieval Manuscripts in Leeds University Library’ [with Katja Airaksinen], Bulletin of International Medieval Research, 14 (2008), 3–23.

‘Two Pynson Editions of the Life of St Katherine of Alexandria’, The Library, 7th series, 9 (2008), 471–78.

‘The Make-Up of John Audelay’s Counsel of Conscience’, in My Wyl and my Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay, ed. by Susanna Fein (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2009), pp. 112–37.

‘Black Humour in the South English Legendary’, in Rethinking the South English Legendaries, ed. by Heather Blurton and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Manchester and New : Manchester University Press, 2011), pp. 427–42.

‘Outspoken Style in the South English Legendary and Robert of Gloucester’, in Rethinking the South English Legendaries, ed. by Heather Blurton and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011), pp. 106–45.

2. Later periods, and miscellaneous

‘Poems by Peregrine Tyzack (1706–1770)’, Notes and Queries, 221 (1976), 497–500.

Sir Michael Sadler: A Bibliography of his Published Works, Leeds Studies in Adult and Continuing Education (Leeds: University of Leeds, Department of Adult and Continuing Education, 1982). xviii, 78 pp.

‘Teaching ESTC to Undergraduates: An Experiment at the University of Leeds’, Factotum, 24 (August 1987), 10–14.

‘An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset’, Notes and Queries, 235 (1990), 296–97.

‘An Early Manuscript Fragment of Sir William Temple’s Poetry’, Swift Studies, 6 (1991),

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‘The Re-Emergence of the Engineering Reports of John Grundy of Spalding (1719–83)’, Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology, 60 (1991, for 1988–89), 137–43.

‘BCMSV: A Database of Manuscript English Verse in Leeds University Library’, English Manuscript Studies, 1100–1700, 3 (1992), 258–67.

‘Creating the BCMSV Database: Cataloguing and Indexing Earlier English Verse’, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 24 (1992), 211–16.

‘Henry Hall of Hereford’s Poetical Tributes to Henry Purcell’, The Library, 6th series, 16 (1994), 18–29.

‘Two Tudor Poems in a Latin Book of Hours’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 25 (1994), 159–66.

‘The BCMSV Database: A Progress Report and a Case Study’, Library Review, 44 (1995), 24–31.

A Guide to the Research Collections of Member Libraries [of the] Consortium of University Research Libraries (Leeds: CURL, 1996). x, 82 pp., plates.

‘Thomas Fitzgerald’s Criticism of Gulliver’s Travels’, in Swift: The Enigmatic Dean. Festschrift for Hermann Josef Real, ed. by Rudolf Freiburg, Arno Löffler, and Wolfgang Zach (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1998), pp. 213–20.

‘Henry Hall of Hereford and Henry Purcell: A Postscript’, The Library, 7th series, 3 (2002), 194–98.

‘Hall, Henry (c. 1656–1707)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

‘Learning Secretary Hand: An Interactive Tutorial’ [with Andrew Booth and David Lindley], in Teaching, Technology, Textuality: Approaches to New Media, ed. by Michael Hanrahan and Deborah L. Madsen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 162–75.

‘Dean Anthony Higgin as Book Collector: A Preliminary Investigation’, Annual Report of the Friends of Cathedral, 2007, pp. 9–14.

(ed.), Supporting English Studies? Reflections on the Changing Academic Library, Issues in English, 9 (Leicester: English Association, 2008). vi, 32 pp.

‘The Realities of Change: An Optimistic Library View’, in Supporting English Studies?, pp. 13–21.

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Dictionary entries on the Brotherton Library, Chetham’s Library, the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Lambeth Palace Library, and Sion College Library, in The Oxford Companion to the Book, ed. by Michael Suarez and Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

3. Editorships

Middle English Texts (Heidelberg: Winter). Assistant Editor, vols 1–15 (1975–83); Joint General Editor, vols 16–35 (1984–2004).

The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 6th series, vol. 21 (1999), 7th series, vols 1–9 (2000–08).

4. Book reviews

Some sixty book reviews, 1976 to date, variously for Anglia, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Bulletin of International Medieval Research, CILIP Rare Books Newsletter, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of the Early Book Society, Leeds Studies in English, The Library, Medieval Sermon Studies, Medium Aevum, Modern Language Review, Northern History, Notes and Queries, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and Variants.

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