Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London by Arthur Bahr (review)

The Manuscripts of Solomon and Saturn: CCCC 41, CCCC 422, BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv

“…Codicological readings are indeed an area of promise in recent research, from Andy Orchard's (1995) study of the Beowulf manuscript to Arthur Bahr's (2013) Fragments and Assemblages (the latter a study of compilations from the later Middle Ages). Again and again, scholars returning to the context of a manuscript discover not the chaos or ineptitude that they were taught governed-sadly-many a medieval collection, but instead a rich, profoundly local, often idiosyncratic logic.…”