REUSING MANUSCRIPTS IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENG. This item is unavailable.REUSING MANUSCRIPTS IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENG

During the "long fifteenth century", the market for books in England flourished. To meet demand, alongside the creation of new books, medieval manuscripts were also repaired, recycled and re-used. Drawing on the codicological evidence gathered from an extensive survey of extant manuscript collections, in conjunction with historical accounts, recipes and literary texts, this monograph presents detailed case studies exploring parchment production and recycling, the re-use of margins, and second-hand exchanges of books.

HANNAH RYLEY is Lecturer in Early Medieval English at Balliol College, Oxford; she also teaches for the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.