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A FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE VERNON MANUSCRIPT
A LITERARY HOARD FROM MEDIEVAL ENGLAND |
| By: |
Wendy Scase (Editor), Nick Kennedy |
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DVD-ROM |
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£238.80 |
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| ISBN 10: |
185124333X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781851243334 |
| Publisher: |
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY |
| Pub. date: |
15 June, 2011 |
| Series: |
Bodleian Digital Texts 3 |
| Description: |
For the first time, the entire Vernon Manuscript is available here in an innovative, highly accessible format. The DVD-Rom contains a full facsimile with images of each page of the manuscript, visible at high magnification, and a complete `live' transcription of the text with hyperlinks allows for powerful global searches across the entire text. |
| Synopsis: |
The Vernon Manuscript is one of the greatest treasures of early English literature and the arts of the book. It contains over 350 Middle English texts, among them Piers Plowman, the Ancrene Riwle, the South English Legendary, the Prick of Conscience, and the Miracles of the Virgin. A volume of massive dimensions, carefully copied and extensively decorated for pious readers c.1390-1400, it offers an incomparable resource for students of literature, art, culture, and language.For the first time, the entire manuscript is available here in an innovative, highly accessible format. The DVD-Rom contains a full facsimile with images of each page of the manuscript, visible at high magnification, and a complete `live' transcription of the text with hyperlinks allows for powerful global searches across the entire text.Providing a new quality of access to this remarkable resource, this new edition is aimed at specialists and students in medieval literature, manuscript studies, palaeography, art history, and the history of the book. |
| Illustrations: |
col. Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Bodleian Library |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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