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Book: Durham University Library Cosin MS V.iii.9 (Collection of works by Thomas Hoccleve)

Created c.1421

John

Texts:

  • Dialog with a Friend
  • Tale of Jonathas
  • Complaint
  • Ars Sciendi Mori (Lerne to Dye)
  • Tale of Jereslaus's Wife and Moralization

    • Scribe(s):

  • Thomas Hoccleve

    • Ownership Details

    Joan Beaufort, countess of Westmorland, Ownership Possible (c.1422-1440?) by Dedication. Ownership Possible (c.1422-1440?) by Patron.



    Bibliography

    Meale, Carol M. "‘… alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch’: Laywomen and Their Books in Late Medieval England," Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 128-58.: 135

    Cavanaugh, Susan Hagen. "A Study of Books Privately Owned in England, 1300-1450." Ph.D diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1980.

    Tuck, Anthony. "Beaufort [married names Ferrers, Neville], Joan, countess of Westmorland (1379?–1440), magnate," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2008).

    Jambeck, Karen. "Patterns of Women’s Literary Patronage: England, 1200–ca.1475," in The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 228–65.

    Edwards, A.S.G. "Northern Magnates and Their Books," Textual Cultures 7, no. 1 (2012): 176-86.