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The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Karen Pratt /Bart Besamusca /Matthias Meyer / Ad Putter (eds) The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript Text Collections from aEuropean Perspective Edited with the Assistance of Hannah Morcos With 22 figures V&Runipress Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available online: http://dnb.d-nb.de. ISBN 978-3-7370-0754-2 You can find alternative editions of this book and additional material on our website: www.v-r.de © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Breite 6, 37079 Göttingen, Germany / www.v-r.de This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 International license, at DOI 10.14220/9783737007542. For a copy of this license go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Any use in cases other than those permitted by this license requires the prior written permission from the publisher. Cover image: A hermit at work on a manuscript; Estoire del Saint Graal, France, c. 1315±1325, London, British Library, Royal MS 14 E III, fol. 6v, © British Library Board. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Contents Acknowledgements .............................. 9 Karen Pratt /Bart Besamusca/Matthias Meyer /AdPutter Introduction.................................. 11 Bart Besamusca (Utrecht University) The Patronand the Implied Readership of The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 76 E5 ............................. 41 Gerard Bouwmeester (Utrecht University) Size Does Not Matter:OnCharacterising Medieval Multi-Text Codices .. 57 Margaret Connolly(University of St Andrews) What John Shirley Said About Adam:Authorship and Attribution in Cambridge, Trinity College,MSR.3.20 .................... 81 Paolo Divizia (Masaryk University, Brno) Texts and Transmission in Late Medieval and Early RenaissanceItalian 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 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 6 Contents 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) CodifyingGenre: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 aStory?Rubrics – Headings – Titles .............203 Hannah Morcos (King’sCollege 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 Miscellaniesinthe Manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde ..............................241 Karen Pratt (King’sCollege 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 calenderand 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 eenseigner’:The Contents of Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.1.1 ....................................327 Rachel Sweet (King’sCollege London) No Text is an Island:The Chastelaine de Vergi’sExemplarity in Context .347 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Contents 7 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 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Acknowledgements This publication has resulted from the project ‘The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from aEuropean Perspective’ (www.dynamicsof themedievalmanuscript.eu), which wasfinancially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) and the European Community FP7 2007–2013. The editors would like to thank all of the contributors to this volume, as well as the participants at our final conference at the University of Utrecht and other academic colleagues, dialogue with whom contributed greatly to our re- search. We would also like to acknowledge the help and support of librarians throughout Europe who enabled us and our contributors to carry out detailed research both in situ and on digitised manuscripts and catalogues prepared by experts in the digital humanities. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 Karen Pratt /Bart Besamusca /Matthias Meyer /AdPutter Introduction This volume of essays stems from an international conference held in Utrecht in 2013, which rounded off the three-year HERA-funded project ‘The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from aEuropean Perspective’.1 The four principal investigators, Bart Besamusca (Middle Dutch),Matthias Meyer (Middle High German), Karen Pratt (Old French), and Ad Putter (Middle Eng- lish) undertook to study collections of texts within their manuscript contexts,2 inspired by the pioneering work of Keith Busby, Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse NarrativeinManuscript (Busby2002).3 Our premise wasthat, al- though modern scholars havetended to read medieval literary works in relatively fixed modern critical editions, medievalreaders had avery different experience, for most works were available in multi-text codices, compiled and organised in a variety of differentways. This textual phenomenon proved to be an excellent example of cultural dynamics (one of the HERA research themes for 2010–13), which, when approached from acomparative,European perspective, enabledus to trace common cultural trends in book production and reception, while also uncovering specific regional and local characteristics. Multi-text codices were also fertile ground for analysing the mechanisms by which cultural identities were formed and shared, at community, ‘national’,and European levels.4 1This publication has resulted from the project ‘TheDynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from aEuropean Perspective’ (www.dynamicsofthemedievalmanuscript.eu), which wasfinancially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) and the European Community FP7 2007–2013. 2Our doctoral and post-doctoral researchers were Gerard Bouwmeester, DaniëlErmens, Gareth Griffith, Hannah Morcos, Rachel Sweet, and Nicola Zotz. We benefited hugely from the gui- dance of our project advisers Olivier Collet, Richard Trachsler, Florian Kragl, and Paul Wackers. 3Also influential on our initial thinking was The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (Nichols and Wenzel (eds) 1996). 4Weare using the term ‘national’ loosely to refer to people linked through ashared linguistic culture; see also note 9below. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107545 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007542 12 Karen Pratt et al. The focus of our research wasmedieval short verse narratives (works of up to 1,500 lines, including such genres as courtly lays, bawdy fabliaux,moral fables, brief romances, saints’ lives, and proverbial material). These short texts, which before the advent of print were rarely copied in single-text manuscripts (or at least haverarely survived in them), are intrinsically dynamic, since they move easily between manuscripts, shiftpositions within different codices, and migrate from one linguistic context to another. This rich body of material
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