Medieval English Theatre: Online References

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Detail from the woodcut at the top of the invitation from the Antwerp Chamber of Rhetoric, the Violeren, to other Chambers of Rhetoric across the Low Countries to attend the 1561 Landjuweel
https://belgica.kbr.be/BELGICA/digital-viewer/c-16147621 (image 11).
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Common Abbreviations

A Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources edited R.E. Latham, D.R. Howlett, and R.K. Ashdowne (British Academy: Oxford, 1975–2013); available via subscribing libraries, or at
http://logeion.uchicago.edu (search by headword).

Middle English Dictionary: online version © 2001, the Regents of the University of Michigan
https://quod.lib.umich.edu available via subscribing libraries.

Philip Butterworth and Michael Spence: ‘William Parnell and the Entry of Elizabeth Woodville into Norwich in 1469’
P 7 FN 4	Norwich: Norfolk Record Office NCR 18a/2: Individual document reference; Norfolk Record Office website: http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk.
P 8 FN 7	Transcript of the Chamberlains’ Account Books NCR 18a–2 by Lucienne Cummings : https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050606120000/http://virtualnorfolk.uea.ac.uk/ drama/places/entries/ewoodville.html.
P 9 FN 8	Francis Blomefield Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk 4 vols (London: Miller, 1806) 3 716 (NB this is misprinted in the original: it should be 167). https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cL7NAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
P 10 FN 12	For the whole map, see: http://www.norwich-heritage.co.uk/norwich_maps/1558_Cuningham_zoomify.htm
P 11 Fig. 1	Route of Elizabeth Woodville’s Entry into Norwich. Base map from Cuningham’s Cosmographical Glasse (1559). http://www.norwich-heritage.co.uk/norwich_maps/1558_Cuningham_zoomify.htm
P 12 Fig.2	https://www.norwich.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/citywalls/17/report.php For a zoomable version, see the 1864 edition of Nineham's prints: St Benedict's Gate from the outside A view from the inside is on the following page.
P 14 FN 18	https://www.norwich.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/citywalls/17/report.php This gives a complete history of the Gate, with images from inside and out.
P 19 FN 22	Dana Durkee ‘Social Mobility and the Worsted Weavers of Norwich c.1450 to 1530’ (PhD thesis, Durham University, 2017) 164; online at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12208/
P 22 FN 24	Francis Blomefield Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk 4 vols (London: Miller, 1806) 3 716 (NB this is misprinted in the original: it should be 167). https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cL7NAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
P 24 FN 26	The Coventry Leet Book: Part One edited Mary Dormer Harris EETS OS 134 (1907): online at https://archive.org/details/coventryleetboo00unkngoog/page/n312 Thomas Sharp A Dissertation on the pageants or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently performed at Coventry (Coventry: Merridew, 1825) 145–151: online at https://archive.org/details/dissertationonpa00sharuoft/page/289 and followinbg.
P 26 FN 31	The Annalls of Ipswiche … by Nathaniell Bacon edited William H. Richardson (Ipswich: Cowell, 1884) 143; online at: https://archive.org/details/annallsofipswche00bacouoft/page/142.
P 27 FN 33	The Records of the City of Norwich edited Rev. William Hudson and John Cottingham Tingey, 2 vols (Norwich and London: Jarrold, 1906) 2 70; online at: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcityofn02norwuoft/page/70. Memorials of London and London Life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries edited Henry Thomas Riley (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868) 261; online at: https://archive.org/details/b2485881x/page/260. Also available at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/memorials-london-life. As is: The Medieval Records of a London City Church (St Mary at Hill) edited Henry Littlehales (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1905) 71 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/early-eng-text-soc/vol128.
P 28 FN 37	John Wodderspoon Memorials of the Ancient Town of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk (Ipswich: Pawsey and London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, and J.R. Smith, 1850) 155–80; online at: https://archive.org/details/memorialsancien00woddgoog/page/n194.

Aurélie Blanc and Olivia Robinson: ‘The Huy Nativity from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century’
P 67 FN 4	Project Website at: http://www.medievalconventdrama.org
P 75 FN 20	Randle Cotgrave A Dictionarie of the french and english tongues (1611) and Pierre Richelet Dictionnaire françois (1680); online to subscribers on the Classiques Garnier Numériques database https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/index.php?module=App&action=FrameMain Le Dictionnaire de la langue françoyse (Paris: Brunet, 1762); bibliographical details online at: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb351535262 Le Trésor de la langue française (Paris: Brunet, 1762); online at: http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm.
P 76 FN 21	See DMF sv nourrisseur. Enter search term in box on: http://www.atilf.fr/dmf/
P 77 FN 23	See AND s. nuriçun, sense 1 and 2, and commentary http://www.anglo-norman.net

John Marshall: ‘A “Gladnes” of Robin Hood’s Men: Henry VIII Entertains Queen Katherine ’
P 98 FN 2	Holbein workshop painting ‘Henry VIII presents the Charter of the Incorporation of the Company of Barber-Surgeons’, 1540: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/file:Henry_VIII_and_the_Barber_Surgeons,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger, _Richard_Greenbury,_and_others.jpg#file
P 99 FN 4	Henry VIII: https://denverartmuseum.org/object/tl-17964 Katharine: https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/1788
P 107 FN 17	See: http://www.tudorsdynasty.com/katherine-aragons-ladies-beginning/.
P 108 FN 22	For reconstructed perspective drawing by Brewer, see: https://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/henry-william-brewer/the-old-palace-of-westminster-16th-century/82
P 116 FN 47	Engraving by Israel van Meckenem, see item 6 on: https://www.wga.hu/html/m/meckenem/index.html

Clare Egan: ‘Reading Mankind in a Culture of Defamation’
P 122 FN 1	Edition of Mankind online at: http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/ashley-and-necastro-mankind.

Meg Twycross: ‘The Sun in York (Part One)’
P 158 FN 12	Remy Du Puys La tryumphante et solemnelle entree … en … Bruges ([Paris]: de Gourmont, [1515]) sig. b i^v: https://www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/pagemax.aspx?strFest=0074&strPage=14
P 159 FN 13	Cornelius Grapheus Le triumphe d’Anuers (Antwerp: Pieter Coeck van Aalst, 1550) sig. N ii: https://www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/pageview.aspx?strFest=0116&strPage=99, and go to next page for illustration.
P 160 FN 14	Richard Maidstone Concordia edited Carlson translated Rigg (TEAMS, 2003) lines 327–30: http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/rigg-and-carlson-maidstone-concordia
P 161 FN 15 contd	The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century edited James Gairdner Camden Society Series 2: 17 (1876) 175 (Gregory’s Chronicle): http://www.british-history.ac.uk/camden-record-soc/vol17/pp161-177. Scroll down.
P 162 FN 18	Logeion website: http://logeion.uchicago.edu. Type in the word you want, and the acronyms of the dictionaries will appear below the headword. Click on DBLMS.
P 163 FN 24	BNF MS Rothschild 3010 folio B^v–1^r (foldout); image online at: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005972m/f13.item.
P 163 FN 25	York Doomsday waggon 1988, God in a sunburst: www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/yorkgod.html. For index of all these illustrations, see: www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/sun.html.
P 164 Fig.1	God in a sunburst: York Minster window S 28, c.1450; Te Deum window from St Martin’s, Coney Street. CVMA inv. no. 003768, though the (replacement) image is in fact by Meg Twycross: www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/ym_s28.html.
P 168 FN 35	Wikipedia entry on ‘Diffuse Reflection’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_reflection.
P 170 FN 38	Arnolfini portrait by Van Eyck, National Gallery, London: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait.
P 170 FN 39	Petrus Christus ‘Goldsmith’s Shop’ (1449); New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459052.
P 170 FN 39	Hans Memling ‘Vanity’ (c.1485), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Strasbourg#/media/File:Hans_Memling_Vanité_ca_1490.jpg.
P 170 FN 39	‘Sight’, Lady with the Unicorn tapestry, Musée de Cluny: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lady_and_the_unicorn_Sight.jpg.
P 170 FN 39	BL Additional MS 42130 (Luttrell Psalter) fol. 63r: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_42130_fs001ar. Use slider to RHS to go to fol. 63^r.
P 170 FN 40	St Michael in Memling’s ‘Doomsday’ (late 1460s); National Museum, Gdansk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Memling)#/media/File:Das_Jüngste_Gericht_ (Memling).jpg.
P 171 FN 40	Bartolome Bermejo, St Michael in Memling’s ‘Doomsday’ (1486); National Gallery, London: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/bartolome-bermejo-saint-michael-triumphs-over-the-devil.
P 171 FN 40	Jan van Eyck ‘The Madonna of Canon van der Paele’ (c.1434–36); Groeningemuseum, Bruges: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/La_Madone_au_Chanoine_Van_der_Paele.jpg.
P 171 FN 43	Serlio Tutte l'opere d'archittetura, et prospetiua, this edition 1619: https://archive.org/details/tutteloperedarch00serl/page/n141. For Furttenbach's design for a ‘Glory’, go to: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/furttenbach1663/0170/image, and go to the first two images on the page. Annoyingly but inevitably, this double spread has been rotated 90 degrees.
P 173 Fig. 2	Experiment: reflections in full sun and with sky overcast. www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/compare.html.
P 175 FN 49	Ute Leonards and others ‘Mediaeval Artists: Masters in directing the Observers’ Gaze’ Current Biology 17:1 (January 2007) R8–R9: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982206025279.
P 177 FN 57	St Birgitta of Sweden Den heliga Birgittas Revelaciones: Bok 7 edited Birger Bergh (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1967) 86–9: http://www.umilta.net/bk7.html.
P 178 FN 60	Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, Walters Manuscript W.174, fol. 17v (Missal of Eberhard von Greiffenklau): https://art.thewalters.org/detail/8054/the-missalof-eberhard-von-greiffenklau-2/. Click to read, go to no. 69. Use scroll button to enlarge. Or see Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, Walters Manuscript W.174, fol. 17v (Missal of Eberhard von Greiffenklau): https://art.thewalters.org/files/pdf/W174.pdf. BL Additional MS 35313 fol.89^v (Hours of Joanna of Castile, this image by Master of James IV of Scotland, c.1500): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_35313_fs001r. Scroll on RHS to fol. 89^v. BNF Ms lat. 9474 (Hours of Anne of Bretagne, Paris, Jean Bourdichon, 1503 to 1508) fol. 111: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52500984v/f111. St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, by Simon K: https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/457567489/in/photostream/.
P 179 Fig. 3	Morgan MS M.1003 fol. 75r, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Book of Hours, France, perhaps Paris or NE France, c.1465: http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/19/76920.
P 180 FN 64	Denis Van Alsloot ‘Triumph of Isabella’ (Brussels 1615); V&A. Online with zoomable image: https://www.vam.ac.uk/ommegang/. Probably best to go to full screen before enlarging.
P 180 FN 64	Joris Hoefnagel (sometimes attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder) ‘Wedding Feast at Bermondsey’ (c.1569), now at Hatfield House: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Marcus_Gheeraerts_the_Elder_-_Festival_at_Bermondsey.png.
P 181 Fig.4	East Harling, SS Peter and Paul: East Window chancel panel 4c, The Nativity: www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/harling.html. For the whole East window with zoomable thumbnails, see: http://www.norfolkstainedglass.co.uk/East_Harling/east_window_general.html.
P 182 FN 68	Antwerp: Jan Luyken ‘Jaarlijkse ommegang te Antwerpen, ca.1680-1681’ (1696): https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-44.139. Go to full screen before enlarging. Denis Van Alsloot ‘Triumph of Isabella’ (Brussels 1615); V&A. Online with zoomable image: https://www.vam.ac.uk/ommegang/. Go to full screen before enlarging.
P 183 Fig. 5	Antwerp: Jan Luyken ‘Jaarlijkse ommegang te Antwerpen, ca.1680-1681’ (1696): https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-44.139. Go to full screen before enlarging.
P 183 FN 69	Experiments with reflection in the Nativity scene using the sun and reflective surfaces: http://www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/bvmexp1.html; and http://www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/bvmexp2.html.
P 184 FN 72	The Transfiguration from Biblia Pauperum fol. 12r; digital facsimile of Bodleian Library Arch. G c.14: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/88a3a46d-b017-4fdc-b466-4a0fb713b61
P 184 FN 73	Oxford: Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 165 fol. 331v; William of Nottingham Commentary on the Gospels (this artist 1380s): https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/57543fa1-e5df-44b7-80af-247e71ffe5ae
P 185 Fig. 6	Oxford: Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 165 fol. 331^v; William of Nottingham Commentary on the Gospels (this artist 1380s): https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/57543fa1-e5df-44b7-80af-247e71ffe5ae
PP 184-186 FN 73	BL Additional MS 62523 fol. 32v: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/other/largeimage74698.html Ludolphus the Carthusian Vita Christi, translated Guillaume le Ménard; Glasgow University Sp Coll MSS Hunter 36–39 fol. 10v (Paris, 1490s): http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/dec2009.htm. Scroll down. The Transfiguration, rood screen, St Andrew’s, Westhall, Suffolk (early 16th century): https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2839695800/in/album-72157631358997080/ Window 7 at St Mary’s, Fairford, Gloucestershire (?1500–17): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairford_stained_glass#/media/File:TheTransfiguration_FairfordChurch_ Gloucestershire.jpg
P 186 FN 74	Aquinas Summa Theologiae Part 3 q. 45 art. 2: http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/sth4040.html: (original Latin: scroll down page to reach Quaestio 45). http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4045.htm: (translation).
P 187 FN 78	Arnoul Greban and Jean Michel Le mistere de la passion de nostre sauueur iesucrist (Paris: Anthoine Verard, 1499). Accessed online at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15112776l.
P 188 FN 80	Michel Mistere de la Passion sig. h vi^r; online at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15112776/f129.item.
P 188 FN 81	BNF MS français 12536, drawing of 1547 production by Jacques Cailleau; Transfiguration fol. 156v: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005970q/f320. BNF MS Rothschild 3010, dated as 1577; online at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005972m. Transfiguration at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005972m/f382. Description of the secret of the Transfiguration see fol. 191r at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005972m/f381.image.
P 189 text	Experiments with sunlight and reflection on the Transfiguration model: http://www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/trans.html.
P 189 FN 81	Valenciennes post-Resurrection appearances: fols 253v–254r: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005970q/f517.item; fols 266v–267r: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005970q/f542.item; fols 326v–327r: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005972m/f643.item; fols 340v–341r: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55005972m/f670.item.
P 191 Fig. 7A	Antwerp Parnassus waggon, detail from Luyken (1685): https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-44.139. Go to full screen before enlarging.
P 191 Fig. 7B	Leuven Assumption waggon (1594), Liber Boonen fols 467v–468r. © Stadsarchief Leuven & M-Museum Leuven: http://www.meg-twycross.co.uk/sun/leuven.html.
P 191 FN 87	‘Archimedes Death Ray’ experiments: http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html. Events at ‘The Walkie-Talkie’,20 Fenchurch Street, London EC3, 2013: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675
P 194 FN 96	Aquinas Summa Theologiae Part 1a q. 61 art. 1: http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/sth1050.html: (original Latin: scroll down page to reach Quaestio 45). http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1061.htm: (translation).
P 194 FN 96	Biblia Latina cum Glossa ordinaria (Strasbourg: A. Rusch, 1480); online at http://gloss-e.irht.cnrs.fr/php/editions_chapitre.php?livre=../sources/editions/GLOSS-liber03.xml&chapitre=03_1.
P 195 FN 101	Peter Comestor Historia scholastica (Basileae: [Johannes Amerbach,] 1486) Book 1 chapter 3, sig a iii verso; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5316856714;view=1up;seq=14.
P 195 FN 105	BNF MS Français 316, fol. 28^r, Vincent of Beauvais Miroir historiale (Paris, 1333): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10507212h/f61.item. BL Additional 18856 fol. 5^v, Guyart des Moulins Bible historiale (Paris, c.1420): https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=60211.
P 195 FN 105	For timeanddate.com calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/york?month=6&year=2018. Enlarge the window.
P 197 FN 111	York Minster Great East Window 15a–16a (by Gordon Plumb): https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/24805975861/in/photostream/. Also in Vidimus: https://vidimus.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/issue_117_2018_news03-e1517428810218.jpg.
P 198 FN 114	Massed haloes; BNF MS latin 920 fol. 320^r: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52501620s/f647.item.

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