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Peter J. Lucas.
From Author to Audience: John Capgrave and Medieval Publication.
Publisher: University College Dublin Press, 1997.
ISBN 1900621053.
ISBN-13: 9781900621052.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Betaprint, Dublin.
Size: 160×241×28mm.
Page count: xvii,333pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy’s dustjacket has a large rip on its front panel, some scuffs and ruffles elsewhere, some wear on its edges and corners; edges of the boards and spine a little rubbed, page edges a bit grubby; endpapers somewhat yellowed with age, but in other respects looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £50.00]
Weight without packaging: 823g.

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Presents a lightly revised collation of ten previously published articles.

Contents:
Capgrave’s life & works;
Capgrave as scribe;
Capgrave as ‘publisher’ — use of marginal triquetra in Latin mss.;
Capgrave as copyist of his own work;
A copyist at work under authorial scrutiny — an incident from Capgrave’s sciptorium;
William Gybbe of Wisbech, scribe & copyist of Capgrave;
Use of punctuation markers in Capgrave’s Abbreviacion of Cronicles;
Consistency & correctness in orthographic usage of Capgrave’s Abbreviation;
Continuity & change in Capgrave’s orthographic usage;
Growth & development of English literary patronage in the later Middle Ages & early Renaissance.
Appendices: Date of Capgrave’s Life of St. Norbert; Capgrave’s preface to Humfrey Duke of Gloucester; Capgrave & the Nova Legenda Anglie.

Illustrations: 27, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 3
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 21pp
Indexes: Manuscripts; General.

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