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The marks in the fields : essays on the uses of manuscripts

Title
The marks in the fields : essays on the uses of manuscripts / edited by Rodney G. Dennis with Elizabeth Falsey.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library : Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Dennis, Rodney G.
  • Falsey, Elizabeth A.
  • Houghton Library, issuing body.
Description
ix, 200 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
This is a collection of brief essays from a group of international scholars, illustrating the evidentiary usefulness of manuscripts as well as their complexities. Early and recent manuscripts from the collections of the Houghton Library illuminate the subject.
Subject
  • Houghton Library > Exhibitions
  • Houghton Library
  • Manuscripts > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History > Exhibitions
  • Transmission of texts > Exhibitions
  • Criticism, Textual > Exhibitions
  • Criticism, Textual
  • Manuscripts
  • Transmission of texts
  • Handschrift
  • Ausstellung
  • Handschriften
  • Tekstgeschiedenis
  • Manuscritos
  • Geschichte 500-1500
  • Cambridge (Mass., 1992)
  • Massachusetts > Cambridge
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
Note
  • Catalogue to accompany the exhibition in honor of the Houghton Library's 50th birthday.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / Richard Wendorf -- 1. A Note about Jean Mabillon (MS Typ 592) / Rodney G. Dennis -- 2. Motets Recovered from a Binding (fMS Typ 122) / Margaret Bent -- 3. An Aristotelian Excursion (MS Lat 39, MS Typ 233, MS Gr 17) / R.J. Tarrant -- 4. A New Work by John Wyclif? (fMS Lat 338) / Seminar in the Auxiliary Disciplines of Medieval Studies -- 5. Reading Keats in Manuscript (MS Keats 2.27) / Helen Vendler -- 6. A Variant in Trakl's Trompeten (fMS Ger 171.1) / Bernard Boschenstein -- 7. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistles I-III (fMS Eng 233.1) / Richard Wendorf -- 8. The Two Versions of Henry James's The American (fMS Am 1237) / Rodney G. Dennis -- 9. Attributions in a Manuscript of Imitatio Christi (MS Lat 246) / James E. Walsh -- 10. Thomas Chatterton Three Poems (fMS Eng 1279 (2)) / Elizabeth Falsey -- 11. On the Faneuil Hall Resolutions of 5 November 1845 (bMS Am 1704.13 (130)) / David Herbert Donald -- 12. Non-Authorial Revisions in the Page-Proofs for Evangeline (*AC85.L8605.847ea) / Richard Marius -- 13. Manuscript Evidence: A Case of Authorship Vindicated (bMS Am 1883 (1336)) / Richard S. Kennedy -- 14. The Master of the Harvard Hannibal (MS Richardson 32) / Roger S. Wieck -- 15. La Bible historiale de Charles V (fMS Typ 555) / Francois Avril -- 16. A Psalter from St. Riquier (MS Typ 311) / Paul Meyvaert and Michel Huglo -- 17. Buying and Selling a Manuscript of De Civitate Dei (fMS Typ 728) / Rodney G. Dennis -- 18. Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance (MS Typ 50) / James Hankins -- 19. Boswell's Life of Johnson: The Houghton Manuscript Leaves (*78M-48 (1)) / Mary Hyde Eccles -- 20. The Provenance of the Harvard Shelley Manuscripts (MS Eng 258.2) / Donald H. Reiman -- 21. The Gillman-Harvard Manuscript of The Death of Wallenstein (fMS Eng 947.6) / Walter Grossmann -- 22. The Travels of the Trotsky Archive (bMS Russian 13) / Douglas W. Bryant -- 23. A Twelfth-Century Manuscript in Reshaped Boards (MS Typ 194) / Rodney G. Dennis -- 24. Discard or Masterpiece? Mallarme's Le "Livre" (MS Fr 270) / Barbara Johnson -- 25. St. Bonaventure, Commentary on the Second Book of Peter Lombard's Sentences (MS Lat 265) / Laura Light -- 26. Dickinson's Fascicles (bMS Am 1118) / Sharon Cameron -- 27. On R.W. Emerson's 2 March 1835 Letter to Lydia Jackson (bMS Am 1280.226 (1773)) / Lawrence Buell -- 28. Ashbery and Popeye (Ashbery papers: AM 6) / Helen Vendler -- 29. Rearranging the Manuscript of Jubilate Agno (fMS Eng 719) / W.H. Bond -- 30. Elizabeth Bishop, The Map (*87EB-70) / Christopher Ricks -- 31. Heightened and Un-heightened Neumes: an Eleventh-Century Missal Fragment (Hofer bequest: uncatalogued) / David G. Hughes -- 32. Lamartine's Graziella and Le Premier Regret (MS Fr 107.1 and MS Fr 107.2) / Jean Bruneau -- 33. Henry James, The Awkward Age (*EC9.B3927.Z913j) / Roger E. Stoddard -- 34. The Billy Budd Manuscript (MS Am 1888 (363)) / Warner Berthoff -- 35. Ostracon Harvardianum 2 (Ostraca 2) / Gerald M. Browne -- Concordance of Shelf Marks.
ISBN
  • 0914630075
  • 9780914630074
LCCN
92052723
OCLC
  • on1221169891
  • 26140385
  • SCSB-1952771
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library