The Canon of John Lydgate Project

The Canon of John Lydgate: Related Papers

In the library of Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge is a slip of vellum, presumably rescued from a bookbinding; it has been the subject of some speculation in the past, but it is here, for the first time, correctly identified as a fragment of a lost fifteenth-century manuscript of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady. Besides correcting the errors found in the past literature on this slip, this article will also consider what can be deduced about the nature of the manuscript from which this fragment was taken and the place of this slip among the extant manuscripts of Lydgate's poem. This slip, in fact, is closely related to two other extant binding fragments, the three together constituting all that remains of a single, lost manuscript.

[For the full text of the article, see the above mentioned publication.]

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