paper-covered boards, paper cover label
1989 · Woodbridge
by Pickering, O.S.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989. paper-covered boards, paper cover label. Index of Middle English Prose. small 4to. paper-covered boards, paper cover label. xviii, 81+(1) pages. Handlist VI. First edition. This volume contains indexes to a university library, a monastic library, two cathedral libraries, a diocesan library and three record offices. Outstanding among the manuscripts are two Wycliffite New Testaments and John Mirk's popular sermon collectionThe Festial. TheIndex to Middle English Prose is an international collaborative project to locate, identify and record all extant Middle English prose texts composed between c.1200 and c.1500, in both manuscript and printed form in medieval and post-medieval versions. The series of Handlists, each recording the holdings of a major library or group of libraries and compiled by scholars, includes detailed descriptions of each prose item with identifications, categorizations and full bibliographical data as well as a series of indexes including listing of opening and closing lines, authors, titles, subject matter and rubrics. (Inventory #: 62563)