The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives

Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c . 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of mat