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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
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Contents
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Short List of Frequently Cited References
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Introduction: Collections Rediscovered and Redefined
Charlotte Bauer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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I. Composing, Ordering, and Circulating Collections
1 Collections: Editing, Exhibitions, and e-Science Initiatives
Peter Ainsworth, University of Sheffield
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2 The Wings of Chivalry and the Order of Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 308
Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University
Appendix
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3 Buried Treasure: A Lost Document from the Debate on the Romance of the Rose
Julia Simms Holderness, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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4 Pages Filled with Dreams: Notes on the Reorganization of Epic Cycles in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Eleonora Stoppino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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5 The Turk in the Trésor politique (1598/1608) or the Anthological as Political Mode
Marcus Keller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Contents
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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
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7 The Time of an Anthology: BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi and the Commemoration of Chivalric Culture
Andrew Taylor, University of Ottawa
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8 The Treatise Cycle of the Shrewsbury Book, BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi
Craig Taylor, University of York
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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
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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