Tudor Manuscripts

Volume 15: English Manuscript Studies 1000-1700

This volume is published to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession. It contains articles which examine a broad range of Tudor manuscripts produced between 1485 and 1603. These include examinations of various forms of regional manuscript production including those written in northern England and in Scotland. Other essays consider some of the different kinds of manuscripts written in London during this period, some of them of complex and unusual kinds. Some articles focus on specific figures or genres, including studies of Thomas Wyatt's poetical manuscripts and the circulations of those of romances.

Articles include:
Jason Powell: 'Thomas Wyatt's Readers and Copyists'
Joyce Boro: 'Scribes, Patrons, and Readers of Romance in Manuscript during the Reign of Henry VIII'
Cathy Shrank: 'Manuscript, Authenticity and Evidence against the Scottish Queen'
Julia Boffey: 'BL MS Add. 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?'
Pat Naylor 'William Peeris and other possible Percy family scribes'.
Priscilla Bawcutt 'The Authorship of James VI and I's Amatoria: The Manuscript Evidence'
Joanna Martin and Katherine A. McClune: 'The Maitland Folio and Quarto Manuscripts: New Directions in Research'
Tamara Atkin: 'Playing by the Book: Two Tudor Wit Plays'