| Evidence: | 'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is considered to be an early copy [of The Book of Margery Kempe] of the original written by Margery's second amanuensis; it was owned and extensively annotated by the Carthusians at Mount Grace Priory in Yorkshire. The most prolific of these annotators, using red ink and in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century hand, has inscribed both in the
margins and between the lines, a lively, fascinating and fully-engaged reading of the Book.' |
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| Century: | 1450-1499, 1500-1599 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Yorkshire specific address: Mount Grace Priory |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | Carthusian Monk |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| Country of origin: | unknown |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Reader referred to in source as the 'Red Ink Annotator' |
| Author: | Margery Kempe |
| Title: | The Book of Margery Kempe |
| Genre: | Other religious, Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 15149 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Kelly Parsons | |
| Editor: | Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Maidie Hilmo | |
| Title: | 'The Red-Ink Annotator of The Book of Margery Kempe and his Lay Audience,' in The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe and Gower | |
| Place of Publication: | Victoria, Canada | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 143 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kelly Parsons, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Maidie Hilmo (ed.), 'The Red-Ink Annotator of The Book of Margery Kempe and his Lay Audience,' in The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe and Gower (Victoria, Canada, 2001), p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15149, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
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