This book offers the semi-diplomatic edition of the Late Middle English manuscript Manchester, Chetham’s Library, MS Mun.A.3.127, which is housed at Chetham’s Library in Manchester. This codex contains a number of recipes to cure illnesses, a previous list of herbs and plants and an outline. This volume is accompanied by an introduction, a physical description of the witness and a glossary. Because of that, this book is a primary source of research in historical linguistics and in other fields of study such as the history of medicine.
This book focuses on a Late Middle English scientific codex, the unedited manuscript Manchester, Chetham’s Library, MS Mun.A.3.127. It pursues the edition of the text, the compilation of a glossary and the description of the codex, representative of the language in the Late Middle English period.
List of Abbreviations - List of Figures - List of Tables - List of
Plates - Acknowledgments - Resumen
Chapter
1. Introduction - 1.1. Edition
of a Late Middle English manuscript - 1.2. Research framework - 1.3.
Objectives - 1.4. Methodology - 1.5. Structure of the work
Chapter
2.
Provenance, Contents and Physical Description - 2.1. Introduction - 2.2.
Authorship and provenance - 2.3. Contents - 2.4. Codicology - 2.5.
Palaeography - 2.6. Conclusion
Chapter
3. Edition of Manchester, Chethams
Library, MS Mun.A.3.127 - 3.1. Editorial conventions - 3.2. Edition
Chapter
4. Glossary - 4.1. Compilation - 4.2. Glossary
Chapter
5. Final Conclusions
- References - Appendix: Plates
Carolina Pérez Guillén holds a PhD in English Philology and Historical Linguistics and a Degree in English Philology from the University of Murcia. From 2017 to 2024 she worked as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Murcia. Since 2024 she is a full-time lecturer at Rey Juan Carlos University.
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