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Rediscovered manuscript fragments of The Prick of Conscience in the library of Queens’ College, Cambridge

Abstract:: This article describes and discusses nine previously unrecorded fragments of a lost copy of The Prick of Conscience. I combine close examination of the fragments themselves with quantitative data gathered from more than ninety other copies of the poem to reconstruct the manuscript they represent in a somewhat experimental exercise in reconstructive codicology. I also bring out these fragments' implications for the debate over the sheer size of the corpus of surviving copies. A transcription o...
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Sawyer, D. (2015). Rediscovered manuscript fragments of The Prick of Conscience in the library of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 15(4), 515–540.

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Sawyer, D. “Rediscovered Manuscript Fragments of The Prick of Conscience in the Library of Queens’ College, Cambridge.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. 15, no. 4, Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2015, pp. 515–40.

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Sawyer, D. 2015. “Rediscovered Manuscript Fragments of The Prick of Conscience in the Library of Queens’ College, Cambridge.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 15 (4): 515–40.
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University of Oxford

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Publisher:: Cambridge Bibliographical Society Publisher's website
Journal:: Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Volume:: 15
Issue:: 4
Pages:: 515-540
Publication date:: 2015-01-01
Acceptance date:: 2015-06-01
ISSN:: 0068-6611

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Keywords:: SBTMR
Pubs id:: pubs:627890
UUID:: uuid:c76d76f9-3b21-48ad-852f-752818433987
Local pid:: pubs:627890
Source identifiers:: 627890
Deposit date:: 2016-06-14

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Copyright holder:: Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Copyright date:: 2015

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