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Article: John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2000
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Margaret Connolly, John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). xi + 247 pp.; 8 plates. ISBN 1-85928-462-0. 47.50 [pounds sterling].
This is the first book-length study of John Shirley, whose activities as scribe, translator, and book collector have been the subject of intermittent debate since the early years of this century. It offers a biography, together with discussion of his translations, the major manuscripts he transcribed, those others with which he can be associated, and the posthumous use of his copies.
One expects such a book to offer new material or insight, but the ...