Procedure; associated contents; compositions dependent on the "Historia"; disruptions of the Vulgate text; dedications; rubrics and book-divisions; test-collations; towards a textual history; circulation and readership; reception. Appendices: Summary table of results; test collations of paragraphs 1, 2, 100 and 208; maps; works associated with the "Historia".
Boydell & Brewer have become the Arthurian publishers par
excellence, not simply for their excellent secondary material on
the once and future king, but for their commitment to the
publication of a largely Cambridge-based inquiry into the primeval
sources of the Arthurian story. ENGLISH STUDIES [J.D. Burnley]
Elegant digest and interpretation of the data presented, manuscript
by manuscript, in [her] Summary Catalogue.It is not just students
of the Historia that will turn time and time again to this book,
but it will be a useful starting-point for identifying basic mss in
so many other fields... Julia Crick has meticulously paved the way
[for an established text] with her novel method of approach and
exact scholarship, and all students of the 12th century are very
much in her debt... clear and careful presentation of the material
in [a] most attractive volume. BULLETIN CODICOLOGIQUE This useful
book For the foreseeable future, any scholar working with
manuscripts of the Historia will need to have Dr Crick's assessment
available in full.
*REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES*
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