Matthew Parker’s Diachronic Community of
ReadersEmily Butler
Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto [email protected]
Matthew Parker as Owner
• Removing text to insert a new contents list
• CCCC 201, p. 2
• Adding a frontispiece
• Supplying missing text: “counterfeiting in antiquity”
Learning from other readers
• A model of metrical punctuation
• Publishing a text annotated by the Tremulous Hand
• An erroneous translation
• Text and translation as printed in A Testimonie of Antiquitie (London, 1567)
Parkerian reading
• Alfredian Preface to the Old English Pastoral Care from CCCC 12, f. 1r
• From Hatton 20, f. 1r
Showing others how to read
• Forgotten and Inkehorne termes
• “Inquyre for the olde way”
• Alfred suggests following the spoor
Still finishing the book
• The elusive page 82
• Its stand-in
• What do we obscure?
