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The Commonplace Book in Tudor London: An Examination of BL MSS Egerton 1995, Harley 2252, Landsdowne 762, and Oxford Balliol (1998)

af David R. Parker

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The Commonplace Book in Tudor London examines the late medieval commonplace book in England, who kept these cheap, popular anthologies, what sorts of texts were transcribed into them, and what accounts for their rapid rise in popularity in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The author discusses previous scholarship on commonplace books, as well as four manuscripts in exhaustive detail, giving as complete an account as possible of its provenance, materials, compiler, and individual texts, using all of these factors to produce a literary and cultural analysis of that codex. Finally, a brief analysis of the importance of the genre as an indicator of popular tastes, a milestone in the development of the internal life of the middle class Londoner, and as an aid to modern literary and historical interpretation of texts within the manuscripts.… (mere)
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A commonplace book was a collection of odds and ends that an owner wrote down. Poetry. Recipes. Religious musings. Histories. Anything the author felt like writing down. Some of the individual items were long -- people back then were still willing to copy down, say, a whole short epic into their personal collections. But the hallmark of the commonplace book was its diversity.

This book is a bit like that. It takes four commonplace books of the early sixteenth century -- one of them, Balliol College 354, the Richard Hill manuscript, a very important collection of medieval writings -- and analyses them thematically. It doesn't reprint the contents, except for a few selections, but it offers an annotated list of contents. And then it summarizes what one learns from looking at these four miscellanies.

And the big thing that one learns is -- that they are miscellanies. One of them is obsessed with prophecies, often prophecies so obscure that we can't understand them. Hill loved do-it-yourself guides, on all sorts of things from how to make ink to how to create optical illusions, plus he had a lot of carols and religious poetries. The others all have their peculiar interests. In other words, they were the sort of books we would still write today if we still had such things as memorandum books!

So Parker's "conclusions" don't really strike me as conclusions; the books are about what we probably expected when we started. There are no deep insights in this volume. On the other hand, there is a lot of information about one very interesting and three somewhat less interesting old books. Very worthwhile if you're into that sort of thing (as I am). Just be aware of what you won't be getting: coherence. It's not what commonplace books are for. ( )
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The Commonplace Book in Tudor London examines the late medieval commonplace book in England, who kept these cheap, popular anthologies, what sorts of texts were transcribed into them, and what accounts for their rapid rise in popularity in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The author discusses previous scholarship on commonplace books, as well as four manuscripts in exhaustive detail, giving as complete an account as possible of its provenance, materials, compiler, and individual texts, using all of these factors to produce a literary and cultural analysis of that codex. Finally, a brief analysis of the importance of the genre as an indicator of popular tastes, a milestone in the development of the internal life of the middle class Londoner, and as an aid to modern literary and historical interpretation of texts within the manuscripts.

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