New Science Out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A.I. Doyle

Contents: Preface / A.J. Piper From flax to parchment: a monastic sermon from twelfth-century Durham / Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 335: its texts and their transmission / Margaret Laing and Angus McIntosh Trial and Error: Wyclif's works in Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.16.2 / Anne Hudson Patterns of scribal activity and revisions of the text in early copies of works by John Gower / M.B. Parkes The problem of uniformity in Carthusian book production, from the Opus Pacis to the Tertia Compilatio Statutorum / Michael G. Sargent Limning and book-producing terms and signs in situ in late-medieval English manuscripts: a first listing / Kathleen L. Scott 'On the Evils of Covetousness': an unrecorded Middle English poem / Toshiyuki Takamiya Serving the needs of readers: textual division in some late-medieval English texts / George R. Keiser