The greater part of each volume is devoted to four or five substantial essays on the history of the book, with emphasis on the period of transmission from manuscript to print. The main focus is on English and continental works produced from 1350 to 1550. In addition, the journal includes brief notes on manuscripts and early printed books, descriptive reviews of recent works in the field, and notes on libraries and collections.

The greater part of each volume is devoted to four or five substantial essays on the history of the book, with emphasis on the period of transmission from manuscript to print. The main focus is on English and continental works produced from 1350 to 1550. In addition, the journal includes brief notes on manuscripts and early printed books, descriptive reviews of recent works in the field, and notes on libraries and collections.

Table of Contents:
Articles
The Life and Work of Clara Hätzlerin
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sheila Edmunds
Quatrefoil and Quatrefolia:  The Devotional Layout of an Alliterative Poem
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susanna Fein
The Aesopic Corpus at War with Itself: A Literary Body and Its Members
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Wheatley
Iconography of the Tower of Babel in Dati s Sfera
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandra Sider
Printing the Patron s Pleasure for Profit: The Case of the Épîtres de l Amant Vert
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deborah McGrady
Marguerite of Navarre, Clément Marot, and the 1533 Augereau Editions of the Miroir de l âme pécheresse 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Kemp
Networking in Medieval and Postmodern Cultures: Texts, Authorship, and Intellectual Property
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cynthia J. Brown & Barbara Valentine

Nota bene: Brief Notes on Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Anna Rügerin Revealed
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sheila Edmunds
Middle English Verse in London, Lincoln s Inn, MS Hale 90
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linne R. Mooney
The Middle English Grammar Project
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simon Horobin & Jeremy J. Smith

Descriptive Reviews, Susan Powell, Review Editor
A Miracle of Learning : Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning, Toby Barnard et al., eds.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Connolly
Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings, Janetta Rebold Benton
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kenneth Powell
John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England, Margaret Connolly
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joyce Coleman
Medieval Iconography A Research Guide, John B. Friedman & Jessica M. Wegmann
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malcom Jones
From Author to Audience: John Capgrave and Medieval Publication, Peter J. Lucas
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oliver Pickering
Texts and their Contexts: Papers from the Early Book Society, John Scattergood and Julia Boffey, eds.
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Derek Pearsall
The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition, John Sharpe and Kimberly van Kampen, eds.
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Susan Powell
Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence, Jane H.M. Taylor and Lesley Smith, eds.
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Powell

Notes on Libraries and Collections
Waddeston Manor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Wheatley
The Reynolds Historical Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaine Whitaker
St Mary s Oscott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaine Whitaker
The Bonniwell Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary E. Wolinski
Museum and Library of the Order of St. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary E. Wolinski

Table of Contents:
Articles
Thanne motyn we to bokys : Writing s Harvest in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burt Kimmelman
British Library MS Harley 630: Saint Alban s and Lydgate
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larissa Tracy
The Lydgate Canon in Print from 1476 to 1534
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Gillespie
Verbal and Visual Metaphors in the Cambridge Manuscript of the Douze Dames de Rhétorique (1463)
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David J. Cowling
Sources of, and Analogues to, the Noble Boke of Cokery
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Constance B. Hieatt
An Assortment of Doctors: The Readers of Medical Books in late Medieval England
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire Jones
The Margarita Philosophica: A Case Study in Early Modern Book Design
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara Halporn
The Value/s of Manuscript Study: A Personal Retrospect
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Derek Pearsall

Nota Bene: Brief Notes on Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Verses Upon Death and other Wall Paintings Surviving in the guild Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Linne R. Mooney
Three Books in One, Including a new edition attributable to Vérard?
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graham Runnalls
The Anonymity of Albertanus: A Case Study from the French
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angus Graham
A Little-Known Manuscript of Latini s Tesoretto
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joel Fredell
The Book as Pledge: A Fifteenth-Century Verse in VK MS 678
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Orlaith O Sullivan and Helen Conrad-O Briain
British Library MS Royal 12 C.xii and the Problems of Patronage
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason O Rourke

Descriptive Reviews, Susan Powell, Review Editor
Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters, Michelle P. Brown & Scot McKendrick, eds.
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Powell
A Guide to English Illustrated Books 1536-1603, Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malcom Jones
The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding, J.A. Szirmai
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Werner
Dragonsblood and Ashes: The Beta Version. Vellum Preparation: History and Technique, Paul Werner
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Donaghey

Notes on Libraries and Collections
The James I. Good Collection for Reformation Studies and Reformed Church History, Eden Theological Seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles Croissant
The Inner Temple Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joyce Coleman
The St. Fin Barre s Cathedral Library Collection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Connolly

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Women and Book Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cynthia J. Brown and Martha W. Driver

Articles
Women and the Circulation of Books
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brigitte Buettner
Charlotte de Savoie s Library and Illuminators
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne-Marie Legaré
Family Values: Manuscripts as Gifts and Legacies among French Renaissance Women
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myra Dickman Orth
Christine de Pizan and the Book: Programs and Modes of Reading, Strategies for Publication
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
The Patroness and the Poet: The Religious Allegories of Gabrielle de Bourbon and Jean Bouchet
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Britnell
Les Albums Poétiques de Marguerite D Autriche: The Dynamics of an Early Renaissance Court
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jane H. M. Taylor
Grief, Rape, and Suicide as Consolation for the Queen: Ambivalent Images of Female Rulers in the Books of Anne de Bretagne
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cynthia J. Brown
Reinventing the Roman de la Rose for a Woman Reader: The Case of MS Douce 195
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deborah McGrady
Louise de Savoie, Bibliophile 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Beth Winn

Nota Bene: Brief Notes on Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Two Fragments of Lydgate s Troy Book in the Bodleian Library
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linne R. Mooney
A New Manuscript Fragment of the Norhern Homily Cycle
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oliver Pickering

Descriptive Reviews, Susan Powell, Review Editor
Triumphs of English : Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Tudor Court, Marie Axton & James P. Carley
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Powell
Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Lahamon, Elizabeth J. Bryan
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole Weinberg
The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths, A.S.G. Edwards et al, eds.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Powell
Studies in the Harley Manuscript: the Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253, Susanna Fein, ed.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason O Rourke
The Reformation and the Book, Jean-François Gilmont, ed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Cummings
Thornton and Tully s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors, Andrew Hunter, ed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geoffrey Cantor
An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c.1380-c.1509, Ann Eljenholm Nichols et al, eds.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malcolm Jones
An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales: Reading, Fiction, Context, Helen Phillips
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simon Horobin

Notes on Libraries and Collections
The Chapin Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meradith McMunn
Innerpeffray Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Connolly
Penn State University Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeanne Krochalis and Sandra Stelts