Matthew Parker’s Diachronic Community of

ReadersEmily Butler

Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto e.butler@utoronto.ca

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?