/ en /pleyyng-mays-age-oxford-new-college-ms-314 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2023-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20314%2C%20f.%2082v%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=hTSIjIeO" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 314, f. 82v [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Pleyyng with May’s Age in Oxford, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ MS 314 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Lucy Fleming</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2023): 20</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/88" hreflang="en">Library Manuscript</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/245" hreflang="en">MS 314</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/244" hreflang="en">Geoffrey Chaucer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/519" hreflang="en">The Merchant’s Tale</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/520" hreflang="en">The Canterbury Tales</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>MS 314 (<em>c</em>. 1450–70) is something of an infamous manuscript among Chaucer scholars. At first glance, it seems like a fairly standard copy of the <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, Chaucer’s famous unfinished poem. Absent the illuminations and gilding of more celebrated manuscripts such as the Ellesmere, the simple rubrication of MS 314 might even strike readers as plain. However, it takes only a brief page-through to realise that this manuscript is hardly as tight-laced as its stiff binding would suggest.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 314, f. 82v [detail]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2023-12/20NCN4%20%282023%29%20Fleming%20on%20MS%20314.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=383274" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN4 (2023) Fleming on MS 314.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">374.29 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 20:26:58 +0000 Christopher 2922 at /node/1982 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2019-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NB.91.18%2C%20frontispiece.jpg.webp?itok=SDcu9q1x" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.91.18, frontispiece" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Penitent’s Tale; or, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library’s Copy of The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717) </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2019): 12</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/250" hreflang="en">Alexander Pope</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/245" hreflang="en">MS 314</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/244" hreflang="en">Geoffrey Chaucer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ history</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library holds a fine edition of 1717 of Alexander Pope’s works, and it nicely illustrates a modern tale of redemption.&nbsp;A reader in our library purloined <em>c.</em> 1980 this copy’s splendid, engraved frontispiece portrait by George Vertue (1684–1756) of the poet, only to return the frontispiece anonymously on 18 October 2010—along with a note in which they confessed, ‘I’m thoroughly ashamed of myself, and I return it with apologies’.</h3> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <p><em>The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope&nbsp;</em>(London, 1717)<br> °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.91.18</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2020-10/12NCN8%20%282019%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Alexander%20Pope.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1118519" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">12NCN8 (2019) Skelton-Foord on Alexander Pope.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.07 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Sun, 29 Dec 2019 06:06:16 +0000 Christopher 1982 at /node/1975 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2019-12/MS%20314%20f.95v%20detail%20-%20cropped.JPG.webp?itok=3RVVnbZa" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 314 f. 95v" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Looking for Scribal Play in Oxford, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ MS 314 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Mary C. Flannery</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2019): 12</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/244" hreflang="en">Geoffrey Chaucer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/245" hreflang="en">MS 314</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2020-10/12NCN3%20%282019%29%20Flannery%20on%20MS%20314.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=503088" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">12NCN3 (2019) Flannery on MS 314.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">491.3 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:56:50 +0000 Christopher 1975 at