Manuscript Evidence for the Use of Medieval English Scientific and Utilitarian Texts

Mooney, Linne R.; Green, Richard Firth

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“…We also have experienced a surge in work that looks at nonliterary textual genres, such as scientific and medical works that, more often than not, are found in miscellaneous contexts: work by Keiser (1999), for instance, refocuses miscellany volumes that seem to be random collections of mainly scientific and utilitarian texts, examining the kind of milieu in which they are produced to argue for planning and organization, while scholars such as Mooney (2004) have argued that evidence of the use of scientific and utilitarian manuscripts offers a way of understanding how and why such collections were compiled. Meanwhile, volumes such as Taavitsainen and Pahta (2004) collect some case studies of scientific/utilitarian miscellanies that privilege considerations of audience and unity.…”

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Anthologies and Miscellanies

Griffin

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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This entry focuses mainly on the later medieval period, from c. 1350 onward, when commercial and domestic book production flourished and when vernacular texts began to circulate alongside works in French, Latin, and other languages in manuscript volumes that might be described as anthologies or miscellanies. It discusses some of the history of scholarly debate around how to describe manuscripts that are multi‐text and some of the new directions in scholarly work on these volumes, as well as examining in brief some of the most notable anthologies and miscellanies that are extant from the period.

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