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This article focuses on the Royal Manuscript 18 B II which is the earliest and most complete surviving witness to the Middle English prose "Melusine." The article discusses the single-text codex and its features including the number and placement of capitula and explores the hypothesis that the manuscript was translated from the first edition of writer Jean d'Arras's "Mélusine" printed by Adam Steinschaber in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1478.

The article focuses on Sir Thomas Fairfax's lesser-known poetical output, challenging previous assessments of its literary merit, and particularly examines the dating of his poems, presenting previously undocumented watermark evidence. It analyze watermarks, the study narrows the date range of Fairfax's poetry in this manuscript to the early-to-mid 1650s, shedding light on a relatively undocumented period of Fairfax's life and potentially revealing Andrew Marvell's influence during this time.

The article focuses on the analysis of a Catholic manuscript compilation in Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawlinson 107 D, which contains various Catholic writings, including a life of Sir Thomas More, apologetical treatises, and a ballad. The author discusses the content, dating, and historical context of the manuscript, shedding light on the importance of these texts within the English Catholic community during the 16th century.

The article focuses on John Locke bequeathed his manuscripts to his relative Peter King with descendants, the earls of Lovelace, preserved these manuscripts until 1947. It mentions systematic catalogue of the smaller deposits of Locke's manuscripts in several other repositories remains a desideratum. It also mentions he subsequently arranged for its contents to be sent to his home in Oak Spring, Virginia.

The article focuses on June of 1662 Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips accompanied her long-time friend Anne Lewis to Ireland after the latter's marriage to Marcus Trevor, Viscount Dungannon. It mentions demand for manuscript copies of her poems and translations most of which remained unprinted and increase in manuscript circulation of her poems. It also mentions print edition of Philips poems published by Richard Marriot.

The article describes five eighteenth-century manuscripts about Middle English in the Hunterian Collection of the Glasgow University Library. These manuscripts are a concordance to the poem "Vision of Piers Plowman," by William Langland, a concordance to the works of author Geoffrey Chaucer, a concordance to the book "Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft," a grammar of the book "Robert of Gloucester," and a grammar of the works of theologian John Wycliffe. Topics include the dating of the manuscripts, descriptions of the paper and watermarks used, and labels attached to the manuscripts.

The author examines the surviving manuscript "De Elementis" from Bury St Edmunds Abbey in England written around the middle of 12th-century. Topics include the identification of the author as one named Marius based on the manuscript's running head or page header, the author's suggestion that the manuscript was connected to an early 13th-century entry for a "Marius medicus" in the necrology of the church of San Matteo in Salerno, Italy, and arguments on the sources and ideas in the manuscript.

Focuses on Anthony Wood's bibliographical attachment which accompanied the legal document, identified in the Christ Church library, Oxford, England and dated 1151. Information on Wood's treatment of the documents he examined; Reference to a series of unsuccessful claims made by the canons of Saint Frideswide's against the canons of Oseney in 1151,1174 and 1200; Accusations made against the archdeacon of Oseney by the Prior of Saint Fridewside.

Focuses on several articles on John Hardyng's poem, 'Chronicle, which have appeared since 1980, describing a positive renaissance in the field. Suggestion from A.S.G. Edwards that the second version of Hardyng's 'Chronicle,' does not exist in anything like a stable form; Importance of the codicology of each manuscript of the second version of the poem.

The article focuses on the attribution controversy surrounding a manuscript poem, initially thought to be written by Laurence Sterne but later debunked. Topics include the verification process by Sterne's biographers, the poem's exclusion from Sterne's canon, and author Hubert Stogdon, an eighteenth-century dissenting religious controversialist and poet. The discussion highlights Stogdon's overlooked contributions, emphasizing the importance of figures in literary history.

The article considers the manuscript fragment of the poem "The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo" by Sir David Lyndsay. The anglicized quarto edition was published by printer John Byddell in 1538. It mentions the error in the substantive variants which is consistent with an aural misapprehension. It cites the possibility that Byddell was working from an exemplar with better readings.

The article discusses the divided opinions regarding the scribal copy of dramatist William Shakespeare's "Richard II." The article adds that scholars have been undecided as to whether the compositor's copy for the First Quarto (QI) of "Richard II (1597)," consisted of a manuscript (foul or fair) in Shakespeare's hand or was a scribal transcript in the hand of another. The stage directions in QI are authorial in character, and the text is thought to derive directly from Shakespeare's foul papers or from a non-theatrical transcript of them. The relative absence of the inconsistencies, confusions, and Shakespearian spellings associated with foul-paper texts leads to the suspicion that a transcript intervened. Furthermore, the article presents a couple of other views regarding it.

The article examines the horticultural notes from the Middle Ages appended to a Wycliffite Bible kept by the Bridwell Library in England. Topics discussed include the ways in which the notes show the attempts of medieval English horticulturists to connect science and religion, the manuscripts believed to be the sources of the Bridwell texts and the evidence presented by the author to support the claim that the Bridwell scribe who transcribed the texts was a gardener as well as a scribe.

The article focuses on an 18th-century incomplete concordance to William Langland's 14th-century poem "Piers Plowman," known as "Hunterian 311." The author provides a description of the manuscript, including the type of paper it is written on and its binding, dates its origin between 1714 and 1801 due to a coat of arms watermark used, and explains that it is currently housed at the University of Glasgow, Scotland Library. The author also claims that the document suggests an 18th-century interest in bibliographical and linguistic aspects of medieval literature.

The article presents information about the papers related to poet and ambassador Sir Richard Fanshawe. These papers are a miscellaneous collection of letters, papers, and literary notes originating from the Sir Richard Fanshawe. There are a number of papers which bear fair copies of Latin verses and composition by Sir Richard, which can only be assumed to have composed a collection of his later Latin poems, but the chaos of the manuscripts precludes any further consideration. They have however, been so thoroughly disarranged that the papers are now in a hopeless state of discomfiting.

The article offers information related to the autobiographical writings of Alice Wandesford Thornton. It examined that The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts (CELM) from 1450 to 1700 classify text as untraced. It also mentions information on inscription on the flyleaf of the first manuscript in the British Library.

The article examines the actor and playwright, Charles Macklin's major blow in which much of his property was lost in a shipwreck off the Irish coast, including his books and personal manuscripts. It mentions that the subsequent accounts of Macklin's life and career have produced no further details of the event and the ship has never been identified along with errors been propagated. It further discusses the impact of the loss on the leading account of Macklin's life.

The article offers information related to the rise and fall of superscript abbreviations for the first-person singular pronoun in the West Midlands between 1250 and 1500. It mentions that Paleography has been defined as dating and localizing manuscripts by establishing patterns in the development of characteristic letter forms and abbreviations. It also mentions that Dialectology helps by identifying spelling patterns, and identifies variation in script styles.

The author discusses the glosses in several Anglo-Norman texts in the manuscript British Library Additional MS 59839. He mentions the English glosses to "Prophecies de Merlin" and "Urbain le courtois," the later dating of the glosses, and how the usage of manuscripts has changed over the centuries.

Identifies the copyist and original owner of a manuscript text of playwright Ben Jonson's 'Entertainment of the King and Queen at the Theobalds.' Importance of the discovery to the establishment of a critical text that pays attention to the manuscript witnesses; Circumstances of the manuscripts' original circulation; Identification of John Kaye as the owner of the manuscript.

The author focuses on the manuscript in which the "Turpines Story" is found. The author discusses the manuscript's binding and addresses the difficulty of collating the pages in the manuscript. According to the author, there is a previously unnoticed quire of the manuscript, which he calls "41bis." The author discusses the folios of the manuscript in more detail.

The article focuses on the development of a manuscript of the works of Worcester Cathedral provenance, which contains a short fragment of alliterative verse on the state of learning in England, and a verse address of a soul to its body. The original manuscript was dismembered at some point and its leaves used in the binding of another manuscript, where they remained until their discovery by author Thomas Phillipps in 1837. The manuscript in its current state, rebound and interleaved with paper, yields nothing further about the fragments' condition when Phillipps found them.

The article presents information on British Library MS Harley 78 and the manuscripts of John Shirley. British Library MS Harley 78 is an assembly of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts brought together by John Stow and well known for its inclusion of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and many other authors. It further inform that folios 80-83 contain a short advisory a prose treatise and is followed by a copy of Chaucer's "Complaint Unto Pity" and the "Complaint to His Lady" rewritten in the hand of the fifteenth-century at scribe and bibliophile John Shirley.

A list of full manuscripts, fragment manuscripts and excerpts from Ranulf Higden's "Polychronicon," discovered as of December 2016, is presented.

The article focuses on several draft poems by Joseph Wharton at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Snippets of poetry, isolated couplets and extensive passages comprise the manuscripts. The occupation of Warton with the divine is said to be demonstrated by his draft material. The possibility that the passages of poetry were produced prior to the publication of the first edition of Warton's collection "Odes on Various Subjects." The writing practice of Warton is said to be indicated in the text.

The article focuses on hlafordes and (hry) re, the words in line 3179a of the epic poem "Beowulf" that present complications in the manuscript context. It analyzes what previous scholars have reported as present in the manuscript. It provides new details on the history of the restoration, (hry) re. Several scholars have reported on the manuscript reading in question since 1845 including Richard Paul Wülckler who found hlafor legible. The author believes that scholars who would like to read hlafordes must depend on evidence before 1845 to supply s.

Details additional manuscripts from arch-druid William Stukeley, acquired by the Library at the Masonic Temple in Longacre, in London, England. Includes an exegesis of the first Book of Genesis, dated 1717; `The Order of the Pillars of Solomon's Temple Demonstrated'; `Tabula Isiaca, The iergolyphocs of the Egyptians.'

The article presents a note of literary history and analysis commenting on the discovery and characteristics of a manuscript of 18th-century English poetry by Anne Hunter. Details are given outlining Hunter's professional life as a lyric poet, the contents of the manuscript, and discussion of her popular reception in her era.

The article argues that the transcription manuscript (MS Eng 1660) of several 17th century texts of English plays including "Mankind," "Nice Wanton," and "Gammer Gurtons Needle," gifted by scholar John Matthews Manly to Harvard University’s Houghton Library attributed to Mrs. Agnes Furnivall, reportedly the wife of 19th century textual scholar Frederick James Furnivall. In actuality, Agnes was Frederick's second cousin by marriage. Born Agnes Parker Ackroyd, she married Penn Furnivall in 1873 and identified herself as an artist and illustrator who transcribed documents for supplementary income.

The article examines the emendation of the text of the "LawIne 17" manuscript and arguments over the precise meaning of the law. Topics discussed include the passage punctuated by Felix Liebermann, the literal rendering of the text by Anya Adair, the lack of clarity on the wording of the text, and the problem with the emendation of the text by Adair.

The article focuses on the correspondence of Samuel Richardson with Lady Bradshaigh, a Lancashire gentlewoman of wit and sentiment who wrote to him during the publication of "Clarissa" (1747-8) to press for a happy ending. Yet the interest of the correspondence lies as much in the way that it parodies the novels as in the way that it describes them. Much survives in the Forster Manuscripts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, but many letters are missing, and many more exist only in the notoriously corrupt text pieced together. John A. Wood has suggested that as many as two-thirds of the letters may be lost.

The article invites correspondences which may lead to the whereabouts of one of the manuscripts of the 1408 Middle English prose translation of Vegetius' "De Re Militari." The author states that any information will be gratefully received, and will be acknowledged in the forthcoming edition. Information is also wanted as to the present whereabouts of Ashburnham M.S. Barrois, a French commentary on the Penitential Psalms and whereabouts of "The Dairy of Jeffrey Boys of Gray's Inn, 1671."

The author presents a transcription of the anonymous Middle English poem "Short Charter of Christ." He discusses the discovery of the poem in MS Rowlinson poet. 26 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, the theme of redemption, and the textual transmission of the poem.

The article provides information on two Middle English medical charms in verse that appear in the British Library MS (manuscript) Sloane 2187. Details are presented on the metrical and rhyming patterns of the charms, referred to as Longinus and Job. The article goes on to discuss the popularity of charms in later-medieval England.

The article discusses that preserved among the papers of the late author Raymond Richards are several fragments of literary interest which have obviously been collected as autographs of the famous. With these is a small slip in the small, finely formed handwriting of the novelist Samuel Richardson. At some time a few minor tears in the clipping had been covered over with gummed paper, then gummed paper had been placed over all the (presumably) less interesting side to preserve it. Much of this paper cannot be moved without causing irreparable damage to an already fragile scrap of paper.

The article reports that in her description of Cambridge University Library, Pamela R. Robinson mentions three different watermarks and endeavors to date these roughly. When checking her description against the manuscript itself, it has been discovered that she had apparently failed to notice a fourth watermark and that she had created the impression that the other watermarks and the manuscript itself originated in the earth sixteenth century. A recent examination suggests an earlier date of origin. The watermarks of Ff.2.38 are bull's head with Saint Andrew's cross above, Lamb Paschal, hand with crown, and hand with flower. This paper may be set into the decade between 1470 and 1480. A beta-radiography of the Lamb Paschal shows that this watermark, which is not mentioned in Miss Robinson's description, has to be identified as Briquet No. 22. This paper was produced between 1479 and 1483.

The article discusses the handwritten manuscript detailing the first British diplomatic mission to China overseen by George Macartney, first earl Macartney, held by the Royal Geographical Society in London, England. It is titled "Journal of a Voyage to the East Indies and an historical narrative of Lord Macartney’s Embassy to the Court of Pekin, including a correct description of the manners and customs of the Chinese, collected from personal observation, by a member of the Embassy," with a note attributing authorship to Stephen Else, Esquire, later Captain and Paymaster of the Royal Sherwood Foresters, or North Militia. It argues that the majority of the manuscript is plagiarized by other accounts by authors including William Winterbotham, Aeneas Anderson, and Charles Caleb Colton.

The article presents information related to an autograph of the novelist Samuel Richardson. Several fragments of literary interest are preserved among the papers of the late writer Raymond Richards. These have obviously been collected as autographs of the famous. With these is a small slip in the small, finely formed handwriting of the novelist Samuel Richardson. From internal evidence, this undated, unsigned clipping is written to his correspondent Susanna Highmore. One might deduce from this clipping is that it comes from a lost letter possibly sometime during 1750.

The article provides information on the annals in the Piers Plowman Manuscript at the Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The ancestors and heirs of landlord Hugh le Despenser III are featured in the annals. The end of the Monastic Annals of Tewkesbury in 1263 coincided with the sixth annal. The first annal noted the possibility that the murder of Geoffrey Clement of Cardigan have triggered the Welsh rebellion of 1294-1295. The beheading of Piers Gaveston, the suspected lover of King Edward II, in 1312 is cited in the seventh annal.

The article presents information on sources related to the works of writer Leslie Stephen. The archives of Trinity Hall in Cambridge, England contain a number of Stephen items, few of which are noted in existing historical, biographical and critical studies. The autograph manuscript of "Swift," published in 1882 in the "English Men of Letters" series, is unbound and consists of 169 heavily corrected leaves, and is evidently an early draft of the final version. The autograph manuscript of "Life of Henry Fawcett" is bound in two volumes and consists of 562 leaves, again heavily corrected by Stephen, and with marks indicating that this was the printer's copy.

The author attempts to define the lemma and etymology of the Old English "mal." He uses three glossaries dating from the tenth and eleventh centuries. The first is in the British Library and known as the Third Cleopatra Glossary. The second is in Brussels, Belgium at the Royal Library. The third is at Oxford University's Bodleian Library and known as Digby 146.

The article presents information on new manuscript evidence regarding writer Oscar Wilde's self-plagiarism. There are two books named "Pall Mall Gazette" and "Women's World" and his critical dialogues in writings are symbols of plagiarism. The kind of borrowing observed in the writings of Wilde is the most conspicuous example and his reuse of large portions is common. In case of Wilde's criticism, there are several extant manuscripts but hardly read by scholars. The article also describes how Wilde settled the thoughts very easily.

The article focuses on the syntactic similarity of Exetor Book Riddles 30a and 30b. The significance of thorough examination of lexical and grammatical variation has been recently demonstrated by Roy M. Liuzza. The two texts display substantial linguistic, that is, lexical, morphological, and syntactic variations. Liuzza argues that it is most reasonable to assume that the riddle was either duplicated in a prior manuscript from which the Exeter Book was produced, or was found separately in two pattern-copies which were conflated to produce the Exeter manuscript.

The article explores the source and date for author Elizabeth Tanfield Cary's manuscript "The Mirror of the Worlde." Cary identifies her work as follows: "The mirror of the Worlde," translated from French into English. Those who cite this manuscript accept young Elizabeth's word that she has translated a text entitled "Le miroir du monde," the earliest mention of her manuscript that was found is Kenneth Murdock's 1939 statement that Cary wrote between 1598 and 1602, a translation of Abraham Ortelius's "Le miroir du monde," an epitome of geography published in Amsterdam.

Discusses the foliation of the Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.6 which is commonly known as the Findern manuscript. Debates surrounding the features of the manuscript; Publication of the facsimile edition of the manuscript in 1977; Problems relating to the facsimile of the Findern manuscript.

Compares the only two surviving manuscripts of the book `The Owl and the Nightingale,' edited by E.G. Stanley. Indication that they share seven texts in English and three in French; Details on the C and J context of the manuscripts; Information on the book; In-depth look at the C and J text of the manuscripts.

This article informs that "Ms Bransenose College," Oxford VII is a fifteenth-century manuscript of which the first item, fos 1-88, is Cicero's De Officiis. Presumably 'd', though with no mark of suspension, is short for an English word, and damned is an obvious possibility. However, in that the manuscripts cited are pedagogic, and thus could have come into a schoolboy's hands, an additional, protective inhibition may have been at work. The use of taboo words and swear words varies, apart from a person's own disposition, according to a complex of factors such as class, sex, age, occupation, and whether the occasion is solitary or in some sense social; under "social" novelists can distinguish the communicative occasion as written or spoken.

The article focuses on the book "The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales," written by Charles Owen. Owen's account is clearly presented and incorporates the results of recent studies of fifteenth-century vernacular manuscript production, mostly by British scholars. Owen accounts for the diversity of Canterbury Tales manuscripts by hypothesizing a large number of copies of single tales and small groups of tales that editors or scribes gathered and arranged to make manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales.