English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Volume 7. Edited by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths

London: The British Library, 1998 8vo (23.5 cm), [6], 304 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket. English Manuscript Studies is an annual periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Contents of vol. 7: "Professional Scribes in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England", by Michael Gullick; "Where were the Latin Classics in Twelfth-Century England?", by Rodney Thomson; "Manuscripts of Ovid in England 1100-1500", by Kathryn L. McKinley; "The 'Lost' Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered", by Timothy Raylor; "Two Francis Quarleses: The Emblem Poet and the Suffolk Parson", by Karl Josef Holtgen; "Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions", by Julia Griffin; "The Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn", by Frances Harris; "A Northampton Poetic Miscellany of 1455-56", by Bradford Y. Fletcher and A. Leslie Harris; "Jesus College Oxford, MS 39: Signs of a Medieval Compiler at Work", by Edward Jones; "MS Digby 233 and the Patronage of John Trevisa's De tegimine principum", by Charles F. Briggs; "A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: 'Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears'", by Gillian Wright; "Manuscripts at Auction: January 1995 to December 1996", by H. R. Woudhuysen.