Record Number: 15149

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Reading Experience:

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.'

Century:

1450-1499, 1500-1599

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Yorkshire
specific address: Mount Grace Priory

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

Reader referred to in source as the 'Red Ink Annotator'

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Text Being Read:

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

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15149

Source:

Print

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/RED/record_details.php?id=15149, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None