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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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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Book/Text | Use in library | Z107 .M37 1992 | Off-site |
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- 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