MARGINAL ANNOTATION IN MEDIEVAL ROMANCE MANUSCRIPTS

3.2 Cok the Compiler: Cok’s Religious Miscellany, British Library, Add.
10392 ...............................................................................................................231
3.3 Per Suas Manus: In the Hands of John Cok ..................................................234
3.4 A Book of Auctors: Bernard, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, Richard
Rolle and Others ..............................................................................................243
3.5 Virtue and Vice..............................................................................................246
3.6 A Quiet Heresy: Wyclif in Jerome’s Clothing...............................................252
3.7 The Practical Handbook.................................................................................259
Chapter 4: A Study of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 80: Marginal Notes on
Henry Lovelich’s Merlin and History of the Holy Grail .............................................273
4.1 Lovelich and Cok on Authorship...................................................................277
4.2 Reading Cok’s Notes: Decoding the Nota Bene............................................296
4.3 Episodic Microsctructures: Medieval Close-Reading ...................................302
4.4 Language and Interpretation: Moving Beyond the Words of the Text..........310
4.5 The Marvelous, Again ...................................................................................322
4.6 The Beginning of the End: The Scribe Weighs In.........................................337
Chapter 5: Malory’s Margins: The Martialism, the Marvels and the Narrative
Structure of the Morte Darthur....................................................................................371
5.1 The Martial Margins ......................................................................................376
5.2 The Tale of Sir Gareth: Taking Note of Narrative Structure.........................383
5.3 The Tale of Sir Lancelot: Episodic Reading..................................................395
5.4 Balin Without Balan: A Tale of Two Storylines ...........................................399
5.5 The Sankgreal: The Achievement of Chivalric Marvels ...............................407
5.6 Winchester’s Manicules: A Complementary and Competing
Annotation Program.........................................................................................421
Conclusion .......................................................................................................................435
Appendix A: Cok’s Chronicle .........................................................................................443
Appendix B: British Library, Add. 10392 .......................................................................451
B.1 A Brief Survey of the Contents.....................................................................451
B.2 Descriptions of the Manuscript’s Various Contents .....................................453
Appendix C: Cok’s Notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 80.......................473
Works Cited .....................................................................................................................478
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