Medieval Manuscripts and Textual Criticism

✍ Scribed by Christopher Kleinhenz

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Year: 1976
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This is a collection of essays dealing with the editing, in theory and practice, of medieval manuscripts. It aims to introduce scholars to the study of medieval manuscripts and the issues pertaining to their editing. In addition, this collection serves as a reference for the theory and practice of textual criticism.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title, Copyright, and Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Book of the Middle Ages
Medieval Romance Paleography: A Brief Introduction
Secular Manuscript Illumination in France
The Introduction to the Lai de l'Ombre: Half a Century Later
The Problem of Contamination in Prose Texts
The Art of Editing Lyric Texts
Principles of Textual Emendation (with an Appendix: Lancelot's Two Steps)
Transcription Errors
Introduction to the Edition of Medieval Vernacular Documents (XIII and XIV Centuries)
Conjectural Emendation
The Value of Interpretation in Textual Criticism
On the Text of the Tristran of Bￃﾩroul
The Nature of an Edition
Glossary
Back Cover
Illustrations

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