Making Books in Fifteenth-Century Cambridge

William Dyngley's Patristic Project
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-914049-29-3
Verlag: York Medieval Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

Reihe: York Manuscript and Early Print Studies

Richly illustrated venture into book production in Cambridge.

William Dyngley (Peterhouse, 1393-1441), known for his personal library of at least 29 manuscripts, was primarily an editor. In the second decade of the fifteenth century, he began a major patristic project that ultimately comprised eight volumes of Augustine of Hippo, anthologies of Origin, Ambrose and Jerome, and a patristic miscellany. Dyngley also constructed thirty-five indexes for Augustine's works, which he copied in tandem with his primary text writer, the so called "Fish Scribe".

This richly illustrated monograph considers the people who made the books, the network of Cambridge scribes who copied the texts, the limners who decorated them and the remarkable man behind the project. Dyngley, placed here in the context of contemporary life in a Cambridge college, is shown to be in charge at every stage of production, acquiring exemplars, correcting scribal errors, storing incomplete quires, reassigning texts from one volume, copying and revising tables of content and tallying expenses. The volume also examines the constituent features of the manuscripts themselves, non-verbal cues as well as content. Overall, it sheds considerable new light on manuscript production in the period more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Dyngley's College World
2. Dyngley's Patristic Project
3. William Dyngley: Scribe and Editor
4. The Cambridges Scribes
Gazetteer
5. Case Studies in Micro-Management

Conclusion
Appendices
1. Documentary Dates
2. The Peterhouse Library Register
3. Dyngley's Purchased Books
4. The Fish Scribe Pembroke Manuscripts
5. The Scribes of Peterhouse, MS 111 (c. 1410 x c. 1441)
6. Beyond Dyngley: Satellite Manuscripts at Gonville and Caius College
7. Parchment Species Analysis
8. A Twelfth-Century Link to the Perpenditur Preface

Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm
ANN ELJENHOLM NICHOLS is Professor Emerita, Department of English, Winona State University.