Cover illustration: Durham University Library, MS Additional 754, p. 221 (first quarter of the fifteenth century). Pore Caitif (the end of the exposition of the Creed, with the start of that of the Ten Commandments). Page size: 105 × 74 mm. Reproduced by permission of Durham University Library and Collections.
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Names: Saunders, Corinne J., 1963– editor. | Lawrie, Richard, editor. | Atkinson, Laurie, editor. | Doyle, A. I. (Anthony Ian), 1925–2018, honouree.
Title: Middle English manuscripts and their legacies : a volume in honour of Ian Doyle / edited by Corinne Saunders, Richard Lawrie ; with Laurie Atkinson.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Library of the written word, 18744-834 ; volume 102 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021039996 (print) | LCCN 2021039997 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004472143 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004472167 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: English literature--Middle English, 1100–1500—Criticism, Textual. | English literature—Middle English, 1100–1500—History and criticism. | Manuscripts, Medieval—England. | Manuscripts, English (Middle) | LCGFT: Festschriften.
Classification: LCC PR275.T45 M45 2022 (print) | LCC PR275.T45 (ebook) | DDC 820.9/001—dc23/eng/20211029
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