MARGINAL ANNOTATION IN MEDIEVAL ROMANCE MANUSCRIPTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments................................................................................................................v
Introduction..........................................................................................................................1
The Genre of Romance ............................................................................................3
The Codicology of Romance: Examining the Manuscript Evidence.....................11
Reading Marginalia................................................................................................19
A Taxonomy of Annotation...................................................................................36
Romance Annotation at Last: Packing Our Bags for Brocéliande ........................41
Chapter 1: Names, Marvels and Dreams: Taking Note of Brut Chronicles in Lambeth
Palace 491, British Library Royal 13.A.xxi and College of Arms, Arundel 58............54
1.1 Annotating a Chronicle: (Un)navigable Waters ..............................................55
1.2 A Lexicon of Nouns.........................................................................................71
1.3 Objects of Interest............................................................................................88
1.4 Standing Out From the Ordinary and From the Text: Marvels, Dreams
and Visions ........................................................................................................96
1.5 A Tradition Redeployed: Romance Annotation and the Corpus Christi
Prose Lancelot..................................................................................................107
Chapter 2: The Case of Lincoln’s Inn 150: Readings in the Politics and Poetry of
Arthour and Merlin and Kyng Alisaunder ...................................................................121
2.1 Libeaus Desconus and Piers Plowman: Some Preliminary
Observations ....................................................................................................124
2.2 Of Arthour and of Merlin: Hand B and the Politics of Corporate Action......128
2.3 Kyng Alisaunder: A Chronicle of Kingship and Conquest............................142
2.4 People, Places and the Marvels of the East....................................................148
2.5 Romance, Chronicle and the Forms of Utterance..........................................162
2.6 Arthurian Utterance: Letters in the Morte Darthur .......................................178
2.7 Littera Troili: Annotation in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde ......................187
2.8 Kyng Alisaunder Continued: The Letters and “Sainges” of Hand B.............196
2.9 Excerpted Utterance in the Corpus Christi Prose Lancelot ...........................203
Chapter 3: Meet the Annotator: John Cok, His Cartulary, British Library Add. 10329
and the Portrait of a Scribe ..........................................................................................212
3.1 John Cok and the St. Bartholomew’s Cartulary.............................................214
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