Table of Contents

Foreword
Winning and Wasting in Wynnere and Wastoure and Piers Plowman - John A. Burrow
The Reference Work in the Fifteenth Century: John Whethamstede's Granarium - Alfred Hiatt
Pageants Reconsidered - Martha W. Driver
Codicology, Localization and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108 - Orietta Da Rold
The Fillers of the Auchinleck Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the West Midlands - Susanna Fein
Tanner 190 Revisited - Nicolas Barker
Early Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Toshiyuki Takamiya
Early Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Richard Linenthal
The Two Issues of More's Book against Luther - A I Doyle
Trinity College MS 516: A Clerical Historian's Personal Miscellany - John Scattergood
Katherine de la Pole and East Anglian Manuscript Production in the Fifteenth Century: An Unrecognized Patron? - Carol Meale
Past Ownership: Evidence of Book Ownership by English Merchants in the Later Middle Ages - Kathleen Scott
From Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of some of Poggio's Latin Facetiae - Lotte Hellinga
Love in the 1530s - John J. Thompson
Editorial Glossing and Reader Resistance in a Copy of Robert Crowley's Piers Plowman - Jane Griffiths
Beaupré Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century - Simon Horobin
A. S. G. Edwards: List of Publications
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

About the Author

The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

Reviews

[O]ffers a compendium of much of the research going on in Middle English manuscript and bibliographical studies and will be invaluable to scholars at all levels.
*JEGP*

These essays bring new findings to the table and deserve to be widely read by students of medieval books.
*ARCHIV*

An excellent volume that everyone working in early book studies will want to read, and from which those who do not normally engage with manuscript and print studies would learn a great deal.
*JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY*

[The essays] are generous, rigorous, richly detailed and replete with fascinating discoveries about medieval books.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*

It is precisely this sort of research that can offer clinching evidence for arguments about premodern books and the texts contained in them. It is vital that there remains a publishing space for this level of evidence.
*THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW*