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<title type="main">A Catalogue of Venacular Manuscript Books of the Medieval West Midlands c. 1300-c. 1475</title>
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<author>Farnham, Rebecca</author>
<author>Da Rold, Orietta</author>
<author>Scase, Wendy</author>
<author>Robinson, Peter</author>
<funder>Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)</funder>
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<name type="institution">University of Birmingham</name>
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<address><addrLine>Department of English</addrLine>
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<date>2006-04-28</date>
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<note>Mode of access: Online. AHDS website</note>
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<note type="summary">Manuscripts of the West Midlands: a catalogue of Vernacular ManuscriptBoks of the English West Midlands c. 1300-c. 1475 provides detailed descriptions and reference images (where possible) of more than 150 manuscripts associated on linguistic grounds with the historic West Midlands counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Many of these manuscripts are among the most important surviving books of Middle English. The descriptions are based on published sources, checked and supplemented wherever possible by physical examination of the manuscripts. The resource will inform further work on West Midlands MSS, e.g. the forthcoming Birmingham project to create a digital edition of the Vernon MS. The data archived are the manuscript descriptions in XML files.
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<p>The manuscripts of the West Midlands are valuable resources for medieval English literary and book history. Research has focused on individual manuscripts or small groups. Surviving in large numbers, together these manuscripts potentially offer a resource for investigation of regionalism and other issues in manuscript culture. Systematic manuscript geography has hitherto been inhibited by lack of research tools for large-scale comparative work. This project aims to enhance the value of these resources for manuscript geography in particular and medieval literary and cultural history more generally.
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