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Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series): 16 - Hardcover
The late thirteenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86, contains a personal anthology of nearly 100 texts in French, English and Latin, including secular literature, devotional material, and texts with practical applications, ranging from medical care for humans and birds to games and party tricks. Many of the texts are unique to this manuscript. It contains 18 English texts, including lyrics, the earliest English Fabliau (Dame Sirith), and the beast-epic, `The Fox and the Wolf'.
The manuscript, which was assembled by a layman associated with Redmarley d'Abitot (Gloucestershire), provides and important witness to the context in which these texts were preserved and read.
The manuscript, which was assembled by a layman associated with Redmarley d'Abitot (Gloucestershire), provides and important witness to the context in which these texts were preserved and read.
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As with any facsimile, the importance of this book lies in the exposition of the manuscript itself. Here the photographs are wonderfully clear and each covers the entire page plus the fold and a portion of the facing page, allowing as much of the margin to be viewed as is possible ... The Early English Text Society and Professors Tschann and Parkes have produced a facsimile of the highest quality, a production that one may safely assure is for posterity. (Brian Merrilees, Journal of English and Germanic Philology)
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- PublisherEarly English Text Society
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0197224172
- ISBN 13 9780197224175
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages482
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