The Marks in the Fields: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Harvard's Houghton Library in 1992, Curator of Manuscripts Rodney Dennis asked a stellar cast of critics, historians, and curators to write on items selected from the library's rich trove of manuscripts, which ranges from the papyrus fragments and ostraca of Antiquity to the papers of such modern figures as Elizabeth Bishop and Leon Trotsky. The result was Marks in the Fields, an extraordinary collection of essays by the likes of Helen Vendler,...
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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Harvard's Houghton Library in 1992, Curator of Manuscripts Rodney Dennis asked a stellar cast of critics, historians, and curators to write on items selected from the library's rich trove of manuscripts, which ranges from the papyrus fragments and ostraca of Antiquity to the papers of such modern figures as Elizabeth Bishop and Leon Trotsky. The result was Marks in the Fields, an extraordinary collection of essays by the likes of Helen Vendler, Christopher Ricks, and Lawrence Buell, which, in Dennis's words, combine to highlight "the natural patterns" found in manuscripts of all times and places, patterns that "go on occurring, everywhere and forever astonishing the mind."
PrefaceIntroduction11A Note about Jean Mabillon (MS Typ 592)82Motets Recovered from a Binding (fMS Typ 122)163An Aristotelian Excursion (MS Lat 39, MS Typ 233, MS Gr 17)204A New Work by John Wyclif? (fMS Lat 338)305Reading Keats in Manuscript (MS Keats 2.27)386A Variant in Trakl's Trompeten (fMS Ger 171.1)447Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistles I-III (fMS Eng 233.1)478The Two Versions of Henry James's The American (fMS Am 1237)589Attributions in a Manuscript of Imitatio Christi (MS Lat 246)6210Thomas Chatterton Three Poems (fMS Eng 1279 (2))6611On the Faneuil Hall Resolutions of 5 November 1845 (bMS Am 1704.13 (130))7212Non-Authorial Revisions in the Page-Proofs for Evangeline (*AC85.L8605.847ea)7813Manuscript Evidence: A Case of Authorship Vindicated (bMS Am 1883 (1336))8614The Master of the Harvard Hannibal (MS Richardson 32)9115La Bible historiale de Charles V (fMS Typ 555)9616A Psalter from St. Riquier (MS Typ 311)10117Buying and Selling a Manuscript of De Civitate Dei (fMS Typ 728)11518Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance (MS Typ 50)11819Boswell's Life of Johnson: The Houghton Manuscript Leaves (*78M-48 (1))12820The Provenance of the Harvard Shelley Manuscripts (MS Eng 258.2)13221The Gillman-Harvard Manuscript of The Death of Wallenstein (fMS Eng 947.6)13522The Travels of the Trotsky Archive (bMS Russian 13)13823A Twelfth-Century Manuscript in Reshaped Boards (MS Typ 194)14224Discard or Masterpiece? Mallarme's Le "Livre" (MS Fr 270)14525St. Bonaventure, Commentary on the Second Book of Peter Lombard's Sentences (MS Lat 265)15126Dickinson's Fascicles (bMS Am 1118)15527On R. W. Emerson's 2 March 1835 Letter to Lydia Jackson (bMS Am 1280.226 (1773))15928Ashbery and Popeye (Ashbery papers: AM 6)16229Rearranging the Manuscript of Jubilate Agno (fMS Eng 719)16830Elizabeth Bishop, The Map (*87EB-70)17331Heightened and Un-heightened Neumes: an Eleventh-Century Missal Fragment (Hofer bequest: uncatalogued)17732Lamartine's Graziella and Le Premier Regret (MS Fr 107.1 and MS Fr 107.2)18033Henry James, The Awkward Age (*EC9.B3927.Z913j)18334The Billy Budd Manuscript (MS Am 1888 (363))18635Ostracon Harvardianum 2 (Ostraca 2)189List of Plates193Concordance of Shelf Marks195Index197
