A collection of previously published essays. Dates of original publication range from 1992 to 2007
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
The Hereford map : the handwriting and copying of the text -- Richard Frampton : a commercial scribe c. 1390-c. 1420 -- Patterns of scribal activity and revisions of the text in early copies of works by John Gower -- Archaizing hands in English manuscripts -- Latin autography manuscripts : orthography and punctuation -- Punctuation and the medieval history of texts -- Medieval punctuation and the modern editor -- Punctuation in copies of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ -- Rædan, areccan, smeagan : how the Anglo-Saxons read -- Folia librorum quaerere : medieval experience of the problems of hypertext and the index -- Stephan Batman's manuscripts -- History in books' clothing : books as evidence for cultural relations between England and the Continent in the seventh and eighth centuries -- The compilation of the Dominican lectionary -- The provision of books -- Index of manuscripts
