Recent Books

The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing. Ed. by Mariken Teeuwen and Irene van Renswoude. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 38.) Turnhout: Brepols. 2018. xii + 783 pp. €140. isbn 978 2 503 56948 2.

A collection of essays exploring annotation and scholarly practice in early medieval manuscripts. Includes: Mariken Teeuwen, 'Voices from the Edge: Annotating Books in the Carolingian Period'; Evina Steinová, 'Technical Signs in Early Medieval Manuscripts Copied in Irish Minuscule'; Giorgia Vocino, 'A Peregrinus's Vade Mecum: MS Bern 363 and the "Circle of Sedulius Scottus"'; Warren Pezé, 'The Making of the De praedestinatione of Ratramnus of Corbie (Including the Identification of a New Personal Manuscript)'; Giacomo Vignodelli, 'The Making of a Tenth-Century Self-Commentary: The Glosses to Atto of Vercelli's Perpendiculum and their Sources'; Franck Cinato, 'The Earliest Anonymous Exposition of Priscian: Two Manuscripts and their Glosses'; Markus Schiegg, 'Source Marks in Scholia: Evidence from an Early Medieval Gospel Manuscript'; Martin Hellamann, 'Tironische Tituli: Die Verwendung stenographischer Marginalien zur inhaltlichen Erschließung von Texten des frühen Mittelalters'; Andreas Nievergelt, 'Glossen aus einem einzigen Buchstaben'; Justin Stover, 'Space as Paratext: Scribal Practice in the Medieval Edition of Ammianus Marcellinus'; Erik Kwakkel, 'The Margin as Editorial Space: Upgrading Dioscorides alphabeticus in Eleventh-Century Monte Cassino'; Alberto Cevolini, 'Making notae for Scholarly Retrieval: A Franciscan Case Study'; Sinéad O'Sullivan, 'Reading and the Lemma in Early Medieval Textual Culture'; Silvia Ottaviano, 'Reading between the Lines of Virgil's Early Medieval Manuscripts'; Anna Grotans, 'Notker Labeo's Translation / Commentaries: Changing Form and Function over Time'; Ad Van Els, 'Transmitting Knowledge by Text and Illustration: The Case of MS Leiden, UB, VLO 15'; Micol Long, 'Monastic Practices of Shared Reading as Means of Learning'; Paulina Taraskin, 'Reading Horace alongside Other Classics: MS British Library, Harley 2724'; Irene van Renswoude, 'The Censor's Rod: Textual Criticism, Judgment, and Canon Formation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages'; Luciana Cuppo, 'Text and Context: The Annotations in MS Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare XXII (20)'; Janneke Raaijmakers, 'Studying Jerome in a Carolingian Monastery'; Pierre Chambert-Protat, 'Deux témoins d'Ambroise sur le Psaume 118 et leur ancêtre'; Jesse Keshiaho, 'The Annotation of Patristic Texts as Curatorial Activity? The Case of Marginalia to Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages'; Cinzia Grifoni, 'Reading the Catholic Epistles: Glossing Practices in Early Medieval Wissembourg'; Patrizia Carmassi, 'Theological Issues and Traces of Controversies in Manuscripts Transmitting Works of the Church Fathers'; David Ganz, 'Epilogue. The Search for Glossed Clauses: An Autobiographical Account of a Corbie Study'.

Editing and Interpretation of Middle English Texts: Essays in Honour of William Marx. Ed. by Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu. (Texts and Transitions, 12.) Turnhout: Brepols. 2018. xix + 355 pp. €95. isbn 978 2 503 56847 8.

Includes: Derek Pearsall, 'Carl William Marx'; A. S. G. Edwards, 'Aspects of Method in the Athlone Edition of Piers Plowman'; Ronald Waldron, 'Whose Punctuation is it, Anyway? A Sampling of some Manuscripts of the Polychronicon'; Janet Cowan, 'London, British Library, MS Additional 10304: Caesural Pause Marks—A Help to the Reader?'; Hans Sauer, 'Binomials in the Middle English and Early Modern English Versions of Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris'; Erik Kooper, 'The Case of the Cutting Copyist: Or, How London, British Library, MS Sloane 2027 of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle Lost 4000 Lines'; Andrew Prescott, 'English Chronicle Narratives of the Rising of 1381'; Raluca Radulescu, 'The Middle English Brut Chronicles and the Modern Editor'; Julia Boffey, 'Robert Fabyan's Two Hats: Compiling The Great Chronicle of London and The New Chronicles of England and France'; Oliver Pickering, 'Verse to Prose or Prose to Verse? A Problematic Text of The Nine Points Best Pleasing to God'; Sue Powell, 'Further Thoughts on Editing the Festial'; Margaret Connolly, 'The Edited Text and the Selected Text and the Problem of Critical Editions'; Veronica O'Mara, 'Problems in Indexing and Editing Middle English Prayer as Illustrated by the Chester Processional Texts'; Mayumi Taguchi, 'The Use of Sources in the Historye of the Patriarks and Caxton's Golden Legend'; Martha Driver...