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View page history| For the M MEMS Seminar "Texts and Approaches: Reading the Pre-Modern World" |
| Oxford Bodl, MS Digby 86, last quarter of c. 13th |
| Module 2: A Medieval English Book: MS Digby 86, Oxford Bodleian Library. |
| from Medium Aevum, vol 66, 1997 ("The Compilation of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86" by Marilyn Corrie): |
| Led by Ela Majocha, School of Humanities |
| In this module we explore the themes around English Medieval manuscript production and focus on one of the most famous and most important manuscripts from the 13th century: Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86. It is a trilingual manuscript of more than eighty pieces, written in English, Anglo-French (Anglo-Norman) and Latin. The manuscript is important and intriguing on many levels: almost all of it is written by one scribe, who could work in three languages the selection covers a variety of subjects, from various literary fragments to medical, confessional, prognosticatory; the English fragments represent pre-Chaucerian language and atest the genre of fabliaux (English "fable"), of the Middle English context of a unique trilingual manuscript from the last quarter of the 13th c., , last quarter of c. 13th |
| one of the most famous and most important manuscripts of the early Middle English period |
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| marginalia |
| week 1: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86, manuscript, compilation, languages, a bit of outer history if need be compilation and languages |
We will start of with an introduction to We'll delve into the world of the compiler and the speculate about who the recipient could be , a bit of outer history if need be |
| (to explain why the three lgs) there is good scholarship regarding the compilation and provenance & historical context |
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| Marilyn Corrie. "The compilation of Oxford, Bodleian Library. MS Digby 86." +Medium Aevum+ 66.2 (1997): 236-249. \[+Academic Research Library+. ProQuest. 28 Feb. 2008 <[http://www.proquest.com/]> \] NB the ProQuest DB - Cambridge Uni none other - ask you to quote it as "The compLICation of Oxford, Bodleian Library." :D |
| week 2: Historical context: |
| I'm inclined more towards palaeography and text comparison |
| week 3: intro to Middle English palaeography: explanation of terms, the succession of literary scripts, |
| week 3: Literary genres represented in the manuscript |
| For the palaeography exercise |
| transcription of a ten line fragment of "Stabat Mater" \-\- hand not too dissimilar to a sample of King Horn I've got in my file (BritLib, MS, Harley 2253) \-\- if that's the one |
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