The Hand of John Lydgate

This paper identifies an annotating hand in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud misc. 233 as that of the poet John Lydgate and explores the likely context for his use of the manuscript and its implications for understanding his poetic oeuvre.

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Reference: Mark Faulkner and W. H. E. Sweet, ‘The Autograph Hand of John Lydgate and a Manuscript from Bury St Edmunds Abbey’, Speculum 87 (2012), 766-92.

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