Books in the Manuscript Culture in the British Isles series

Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.

Scribes played a crucial part in the flourishing and availability of literature in English during the time of Chaucer. This book reveals for the first time who they were, where and how they worked, and the crucial role they playedin bringing this literature to a wider public.

Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators.

A range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical, codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant manuscript.

New essays on late medieval manuscripts highlight the complicated network of their production and dissemination.