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Text and Context Frank Coulson, Series Editor Collections in Context The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe Edited by Karen Fresco & Anne D. Hedeman The Ohio State University Press · Columbus Copyright © 2011 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Collections in context : the organization of knowledge and community in Europe / edited by Karen Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman. p. cm.—(Text and context) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8142-1171-7 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8142-9265-5 (cd) 1. Literature, Medieval—History and criticism. 2. Manuscripts—History. 3. Manuscripts— Collectors and collecting. 4. Manuscript design. I. Fresco, Karen Louise, 1947– II. Hedeman, Anne Dawson. III. Series: Text and context (Columbus, Ohio) PN681.C64 2011 809'.031075—dc23 2011030535 Cover design by Laurence J. Nozik Text Design by Jennifer Shoffey Forsythe Type set in Adobe Garamond Pro Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Cover illustration: John Talbot and Margaret Beauchamp presented by Saints George and Margaret to the Virgin and Child. Book of Hours. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Ms. 40-1950, fol. 7v. Photo courtesy Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Short List of Frequently Cited References ix xi xvii Introduction: Collections Rediscovered and Redefined Charlotte Bauer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1 I. Composing, Ordering, and Circulating Collections 1 Collections: Editing, Exhibitions, and e-Science Initiatives Peter Ainsworth, University of Sheffield 13 2 The Wings of Chivalry and the Order of Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 308 Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University Appendix 30 56 3 Buried Treasure: A Lost Document from the Debate on the Romance of the Rose Julia Simms Holderness, Cambridge, Massachusetts 64 4 Pages Filled with Dreams: Notes on the Reorganization of Epic Cycles in Fifteenth-Century Italy Eleonora Stoppino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 75 5 The Turk in the Trésor politique (1598/1608) or the Anthological as Political Mode Marcus Keller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 86 Contents vi II. Networks of Texts, Book Producers, and Readers: The Case of the Shrewsbury Book (British Library Ms. Royal 15 E. VI) 6 Collecting Images: The Role of the Visual in the Shrewsbury Book (BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi) Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Appendices 99 115 7 The Time of an Anthology: BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi and the Commemoration of Chivalric Culture Andrew Taylor, University of Ottawa 120 8 The Treatise Cycle of the Shrewsbury Book, BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi Craig Taylor, University of York 134 9 Christine de Pizan’s Livre des fais d’armes et de chevalerie and the Coherence of BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi Karen Fresco, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Appendices 151 173 III. Collections Building Community 10 A Livre d’Eracles within the Library of the Fifteenth-Century Flemish Bibliophile, Louis de Bruges: Paris, BnF Ms. fr. 68 in Context