Sixteen papers examine the authorship, themes and social context of the Harley manuscript (British Library MS Harley 2253). The manuscript comprises an anthology of mostly Middle English verse, political, religious and secular, which, the contributors demonstrate, reveals a grea…
"This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible…
Focus on the handwriting of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and identifies those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. This book also looks at the significance of customized images of …
"This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible…
"This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible…
"This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible…
