English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual.

Author/Editor
Preston, Jean F., and Laetitia Yeandle.

Title
English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual.

Published
Preston, Jean F., and Laetitia Yeandle. English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992), pp.10-11.

Review
Two selections from two manuscripts of the "Confessio Amantis"--Princeton, Princeton University Library, MS Garrett 136, and Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.29--are used to illustrate, respectively, the difference between an anglicana hand of ca. 1400 and a secretary hand, ca. 1450. Page 10 contains a transcription of the texts, discussion of the hands, and--very briefly--of the manuscripts; page 11 plates show the passages in situ. [RFY. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 41.1]

Date
1992

Gower Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies