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Article: Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253.
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2001
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Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253, ed. Susanna Fein (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000), xvi + 515 pp. ISBN 1-58044-060-6. $40.00.
Owing to its fine English lyrics, London, British Library, MS Harley 2253 (copied c.1340) has held a special place in Middle English studies for more than a century. In the 1960s and 1970s, interest in the MS was largely nurtured by the dedicatee of Fein's volume, Rossell Hope Robbins, the great scholar of Middle English lyric. And this very substantial collection (introduction and fifteen essays, some very long) is ...