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Philip E. Bennett and Graham A. Runnals, eds.
The Editor and the Text.
Published Edinburgh U.P./Modern Humanities Research Association, 1990.
ISBN 0748601546.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Redwood Press, Melksham.
Size: 142x221x18mm.
Page count: xiv,175pp.
Main language: 3 essays in French, the rest in English; quotations given without translation; Tony Hunt's essay gives an Anglo-Norman text without translation.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is somewhat scuffed and yellowed with age, some wear on its edges and corners; a little wear on the boards and spine, page edges a bit dusty, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 389g.

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The essays are dedicated to Anthony J. Holden.

Contents:
Ménard, Problèmes de paléographie et de philologie dans l’édition des textes français du Moyen Age;
Corley, Editing Le Bel Inconnu & other single manuscript texts;
Marshall, Transmission of the lyric Lais in Old French Chansonnier T;
Varty, Variants & their presentation in scholarly editions of Roman de Renart;
Lodge, Syntactic variable & the authorship of Renart II-Va;
Van Emden, Cambridge ms. of the Rhymed Roland;
Kennedy, Editing Christine de Pizan's Epistre à la reine;
Laidlaw, How long is the Livre du chemin de long estude?;
Runnalls, Towards a typology of medieval French play mss.;
Roques, 'Jeter de la poudre aux yeux';
Bennett, Toponymy & text in Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne;
Baumgartner, Del Graal cui l’an servoit — variations sur un pronom;
Hunt, An Anglo-Norman medical treatise.

Notes: infrequent, end of chapter
Tables: 7
Illustrations: 2, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: writings of Anthony J. Holden; individual essays give references at the end
Index: yes

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