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#326694 Facsimili

The Findern Manuscript. Cambridge University Library MS Ff. I. 6.

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PublisherScolar Press.
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Details cm.21x28, pp.XXXIII,186, legatura editoriale in tutta tela, titoli in oro al dorso. Collana Scolar Medieval Manuscripts in Facsimile. Seconda edizione.
AbstractCUL MS Ff.i.6, commonly called the Findern Manuscript, is a scrapbook of secular Middle English literature created in the late 15th to early 16th centuries by gentry families and their associates in and around rural Derbyshire. Because of the names inscribed into the manuscript, including five women’s names, it appears that members of the Cotton, Findern, Francis, and Shirley households were its primary audiences. The manuscript is a paper quarto originally created as individual booklets that circulated separately before being bound into a single volume at a later time. Most of the booklets begin with a substantial work by well-known authors, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, and Richard Roos. Blank pages within and at the ends of the booklets have largely been filled with lyrics, two dozen of which appear to have been written by the Findern’s gentry creators. The extant manuscript contains roughly sixty-two literary items, as well as three household notes, two musical fragments, and an array of pen trials, names, and alphabets. It is written in over forty hands, clearly indicating the collaborative nature of its creation. Most of these hands appear to be amateur scribes, in that they do not write in book hands, rule their texts, or use catchwords. Scholars have noted that the manuscript is predominately filled with secular love literature with an unusually coherent thematic thread centered on women’s eloquence, agency, and suffering.
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