New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.

Orietta Da Rold, Elaine Treharne

Introduction - Elaine Treharne
The Composite Nature of Eleventh-Century Homiliaries: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 421 - Erika Corradini
The Power and the Glory: Conquest and Cosmology in Edwardian Wales [Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3514] - Julia C Crick
Manuscript Production before Chaucer: Some Preliminary Observations - Orietta Da Rold
The Ellesmere Manuscript: Controversy, Culture and the Canterbury Tales - A S G Edwards
Vanishing Transliteracies in Beowulf and Samuel Pepys's Diary - Martin Foys and Whitney Anne Trettien
Descriptive Bibliography and Electronic Publication - David L. Gants
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 647 and its Use, c. 1410-2010 - Ralph Hanna
The Idea of the Heart in Byzantium and the History of the Book - Robert Romanchuk
Red as a Textual Element during the Transition from Manuscript to Print - Margaret Smith
Problematising Textual Authority in the York Register - Liberty Stanavage