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Friedman, John Block, Northern English books, owners, and makers in the late Middle Ages, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

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Work
Northern English books, owners, and makers in the late Middle Ages
Place
Syracuse, NY
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Year
1995
Description
Description
Contents: 1. Northern book-owning men and women: evidence from wills and extant manuscripts -- 2. Northern professional scribes and scribe families -- 3. Color and the archaizing style -- 4. The interlace and mask medallion style -- 5. ‘Hermits painted at the front’: images of popular piety in the north -- 6. Three northern magnates as book patrons: John Newton, Thomas Langley, Thomas Rotherham, and their manuscripts -- App. A. The Pigment folium --App. B. A handlist of extant northern manuscripts -- App. C. Book ownership in the north: a census from wills.
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Manuscripts
History, society and culture
Agents
Robert of PoppletonRobert of Poppleton
(fl. 14th century)
Carmelite friar, who had been a brother of the priory at York and later became prior of the Carmelite friary at Hulne, near Alnwick (Northumberland). He oversaw and probably contributed to the compilation of BNF lat. 4126, the so-called Poppleton manuscript.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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