The Journal of the Early Book Society
for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History

Volume 7 (2004)
Edited by Martha Driver, Pace University

ISBN:  0-944473-68-7
ISSN: 1525-6790
Pages: 220
Price: $30

Note from the Editor 

Articles 
'Monstres qui a ii mamelles bloe': Illuminator's Instructions              
in a MS of Thomas of Cantimpré  
JOHN B. FRIEDMAN

Torture Narrative: the Imposition of Medieval Method on                 
Early Christian Texts
LARISSA TRACY

'This litel child, his litel book': Narratives for Children in                  
Late-Fifteenth-Century England
PHILIPPA HARDMAN

A Narrative of Faith: Middle English Devotional Anthologies            
and Religious Practice
JILL C. HAVENS

Buying Books, Narrating the Past: the Ownership of a Music MS      
(Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 564)
YOLANDA PLUMLEY AND ANNE STONE

'Luther's Pestiferous Virus': An Angry Jesuit Remaps the                   
Nuremberg Chronicle
EDWARD WHEATLEY 

Nota Bene: Brief Notes on Manuscripts and Early Printed Books  
Highlighting Little-Known or Recently Uncovered Items or Related Issues

The Scribe of Takamiya MS 32 (formerly the 'Delamere                     
Chaucer') and Cambridge University Library MS Gg.I.34 (Part 3)
DANIEL W. MOSSER

 A New Scribe of Chaucer and Gower                                                
LINNE R. MOONEY

Felip Ribot's Institution of the First Monks: Telling Stories             
About the Carmelites 
VALERIE EDDEN

Gower's Cronica tripertita and the Latin Glosses to                        
Hardyng's Chronicle
RICHARD MOLL

Descriptive Reviews      
Susan Broomhall                                                                             
Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France
ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE

James G. Clark                                                                                 
The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England
SUSAN POWELL

Laurence M. Eldredge and Anne L. Klinck, eds.                               
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi
JOHN THOMPSON

William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds.                                
Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of 
The Canterbury Tales in Pictures                                                                                      
CHARLOTTE C. MORSE

Vincent Gillespie, ed., Syon Abbey, with A.I. Doyle, ed.                     
The Libraries of the Carthusians
SUSAN POWELL

Phillipa Hardman, ed.,                                                                     
The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance         
BRYAN P. DAVIS

Simon Horobin                                                                                
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition
JOHN THOMPSON

Kristian Jensen, ed.                                                                           
Incunabula and Their Readers: Printing, Selling,
and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century
WILLIAM MARX

James A. Knapp                                                                                 
Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England:
the Representation of History in Printed Books
JASON O'ROURKE

David McKitterick                                                                              
Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830
LINNE R. MOONEY

Robert R. Raymo and Elaine E. Whitaker, eds.                                  
The Mirroure of the Worlde: A Middle English Translation of
Le Miroir du Monde
JOYCE BORO

James Simpson                                                                                 
Reform and Cultural Revolution
ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE

S. Mutchow Towers                                                                           
Control of Religious Printing in Early Stuart England
DAVID COLCLOUGH

Larissa Tracy                                                                                     
Women of the Gilte Legende: A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives   
OLIVER PICKERING

Notes on Libraries and Collections 
Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena:                         
Hanschriften and Sondersammlungen
KEITH ALDERSON   

The University Club, General Theological Seminary                          
STEVEN DAWSON 

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