Most of the essays were first presented at the Fifth Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscripts in the Digital Age, held at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania on November 16-17, 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index
The poems of "Ch" : taxonomizing literary tradition / Elizaveta Strakhov -- Worlds in books / Alfred Hiatt -- Poetry's place in scholastic taxonomies of knowledge / Mary Franklin-Brown -- Manuscripts of Latin translations of scientific texts from Arabic / Charles Burnett -- Reading step by step : pictorial allegory and pastoral care in Piers Plowman / Katharine Breen -- "Life" lessons in Anna Eybin's Book of Saints (ca. 1465-1482) / Sara S. Poor
