{"id":11655,"date":"2019-03-14T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=11655"},"modified":"2019-03-14T19:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:52:35","slug":"cornelius-and-ensley-2019-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/cornelius-and-ensley-2019-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornelius and Ensley (2019 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Ian Cornelius and James Eric Ensley<br \/>\n(<em>Loyola University Chicago<\/em> and <em>Yale University<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;The Lost Medieval Exemplar of Beinecke Library, Takamiya MS 23&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract of Paper<br \/>\nTo be presented at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies<br \/>\n(Kalamazoo, 2019)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session on<br \/>\n&#8220;In the Absence of Manuscript Evidence:\u00a0 Considering Lacunae in Manuscript Studies&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>Sponsored by the <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganized by Justin A. Hastings and Derek Shank<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2019-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>[<em>Published on 14 March 2019<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, <a href=\"https:\/\/brbl-dl.library.yale.edu\/vufind\/Record\/4281594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Takamiya MS 23<\/a> is a near-complete copy of the B Version of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Langland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Langland<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piers_Plowman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piers Plowman<\/a>.\u00a0 Produced in the mid-sixteenth century, nearly two centuries after Langland wrote, Takamiya 23 is contemporary with the first printed editions of this poem.\u00a0 It is also the latest manuscript copy with independent authority; later copies exist, but they derive from exemplars still extant.\u00a0 Its salient feature is pervasive linguistic modernization:\u00a0 George Kane described this copy as a \u201ctranslation . . . into Tudor English\u201d.\u00a0 The text has never been printed.\u00a0 It figures as a rejected manuscript in both the Athlone and A.V.C. Schmidt\u2019s editions of <em>Piers Plowman<\/em>, for editors concerned to reconstruct the original authorial state of the poem rightly concluded that this copy provides little assistance in that endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the manuscript is richly informative as a document of linguistic change and reception history.\u00a0 Moreover, certain features of punctuation, <em>mise-en-page<\/em> and <em>ordinatio<\/em> are best explained as reflexes of a good medieval copy of the poem.\u00a0 In this paper we speculate about the appearance of the scribe\u2019s lost medieval exemplar.\u00a0 Our paper develops from our digital edition of Takamiya 23, in preparation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/piers.chass.ncsu.edu\/\"><em>\u2018Piers Plowman\u2019 Electronic Archive<\/em><\/a> (PPEA).<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Cornelius and James Eric Ensley (Loyola University Chicago and Yale University) &#8220;The Lost Medieval Exemplar of Beinecke Library, Takamiya MS 23&#8221; Abstract of Paper To be presented at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2019) Session on &#8220;In the Absence of Manuscript Evidence:\u00a0 Considering Lacunae in Manuscript Studies&#8221; Sponsored by the Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11658,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11655\/revisions\/11658"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}