Contents

• The contribution of insular scribes of the seventh and eighth centuries to the "grammar of legibility"
• Tachygraphy in the Middle Ages : writing techniques employed for reportationes of lectures and sermons
• The influence of the concepts of ordinatio and compilatio on the development of the book
• The date of the Oxford Manuscript of La Chanson de Roland : Bodleian Library MS Digby 23
• The scriptorium of Wearmouth-Jarrow
• The handwriting of St. Boniface : a reassessment of the problems
• The palaeography of the Parker Manuscript of the chronicle, laws and sedulius, and historiography at Winchester in the late ninth and the tenth centuries
• A fragment of an early-tenth-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript and its significance
• On the presumed date and possible origins of the manuscript of the Orrmulum : Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 1
• The production of copies of the Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis in the early fifteenth century / with A.I. Doyle
• A fifteenth- century scribe : Henry Mere
• Copies of Boethius in Anglo -Saxon England : a note on Vatican, Bibl. Apost., MS Vat. Lat. 3363
• An Anglo-Saxon text at Fleury : the manuscript of the Leiden Riddle
• The literacy of the laity
• Book provision and libraries at the Medieval University of Oxford
• Fragments of medieval manuscripts