JOHN OF SALISBURY'S SECOND LETTER COLLECTION IN LATER MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: UNEXAMINED FRAGMENTS FROM HUNTINGTON LIBRARY HM 128 Academic Article

abstract

• The pastedowns in Huntington Library HM 128 (a sixteenth-century codex containing fifteenth century manuscripts of mainly Middle English poetry and prose) comprise fragments of three letters from John of Salisbury's second correspondence collection. This article explores the possibility that the fragments contained in HM 128 are part of an early English manuscript tradition for John's second letter collection that survived until the period of the dissolution. The article offers a thorough analysis of the fragments as they exist as well as a transcription of the materials, including a complete listing of variants from the previously known copies of John's letters. Moreover, we examine several prospective derivations for the texts that form the pastedowns in HM 128, offering the hypothesis that the manuscript tradition on which they are based represents an independent and perhaps earlier version (centered somewhere in England, possibly Canterbury or Devonshire) of John's collection.

authors

• Nederman, Cary

published proceedings

• VIATOR: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, VOL 40, NO 1

author list (cited authors)

• Bollermann, K., & Nederman, C. J.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Bollermann, Karen||Nederman, Cary J

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Brepols Publishers NV  Publisher

published in

• Viator: Medieval and Renaissance studies  Journal

keywords

• Alan Of Tewkesbury
• Canterbury
• Exeter
• Hm 128
• John Of Salisbury
• King Henry Ii
• Thomas Becket
• Twelfth-century England

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.100345

start page

• 71

end page

• 91

volume

• 40

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.viator.1.100345