Medieval manuscripts and textual criticism /edited by Christopher Kleinhenz.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Languages, (c)1976.
- 1 online resource.
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 4 .
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM; Title; Copyright; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The Book of the Middle Ages; Medieval Romance Paleography: A Brief Introduction; Secular Manuscript Illumination in France; The Introduction to the Lai de l'Ombre: Half a Century Later; The Problem of Contamination in Prose Texts; The Art of Editing Lyric Texts; Principles of Textual Emendation (with an Appendix: Lancelot's Two Steps); Transcription Errors Introduction to the Edition of Medieval Vernacular Documents (XIII and XIV Centuries)Conjectural Emendation; The Value of Interpretation in Textual Criticism; On the Text of the Tristran of Béroul; The Nature of an Edition; GLOSSARY; Back Cover