Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Short List of Frequently Cited References
Introduction: Collections Rediscovered and Redefined (Charlotte Bauer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
I. Composing, Ordering, and Circulating Collections
1. Collections: Editing, Exhibitions, and e-Science Initiatives (Peter Ainsworth, University of Sheffield)
2. The Wings of Chivalry and the Order of Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 308 (Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University)
Appendix
3. Buried Treasure: A Lost Document from the Debate on the Romance of the Rose (Julia Simms Holderness, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
4. Pages Filled with Dreams: Notes on the Reorganization of Epic Cycles in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Eleonora Stoppino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
5. The Turk in the Trésor politique (1598/1608) or the Anthological as Political Mode (Marcus Keller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
II. Networks of Texts, Book Producers, and Readers: The Case of the Shrewsbury Book (British Library Ms. Royal 15 E. VI)
6. Collecting Images: The Role of the Visual in the Shrewsbury Book (BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi) (Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Appendices
7. The Time of an Anthology: BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi and the Commemoration of Chivalric Culture (Andrew Taylor, University of Ottawa)
8. The Treatise Cycle of the Shrewsbury Book, BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi (Craig Taylor, University of York)
9. Christine de Pizan’s Livre des fais d’armes et de chevalerie and the Coherence of BL Ms. Royal 15 E. vi (Karen Fresco, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Appendices
III. Collections Building Community
10. A Livre d’Eracles within the Library of the Fifteenth-Century Flemish Bibliophile, Louis de Bruges: Paris, BnF Ms. fr. 68 in Context (Erin K. Donovan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
11. Reading Royal Allegories in Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame: The Soissons Manuscript (Paris, BnF, Ms. n. a. fr. 24541) (Kathryn A. Duys, University of St. Francis)
Appendix
12. The Prato fiorito, the Selva di cose diverse and Other Compilations by Suor Fiammetta Frescobaldi (Elissa B. Weaver, The University of Chicago)
13. A Curious Collection in Ivory: The Lord Gort Casket (Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Appendix
14. Repeat Performances: Adam de la Halle, Jehan Bodel, and the Reusable Pasts of Their Plays (Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Afterword: Of Books and Other Miscellaneous Revolutions: Medieval Miscellanies in Context (Tania Van Hemelryck, Groupe de recherche sur le moyen français, Université Catholique de Louvain)
General Bibliography
Contributors
Manuscript Index
General Index