Andrew Taylor, Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers.(Book Review)

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(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). 300 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3642-4. $55.00/38.50 [pounds sterling].

This book examines three manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in different monastic environments: Bodleian Library, MS Digby 23 (the Chanson de Roland), British Library, MS Harley 978 (a variegated collection of texts), and BL, MS Royal 10.E.4 (the Smithfield Decretals). What Andrew Taylor appears to be attempting is to recover such evidence as there is of these manuscripts' earliest readers and their forms of engagement with ...

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