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Mary Wellesley

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in The United Kingdom

December 16, 1986

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Dr Mary Wellesley is a British Library Research Affiliate. She did her undergraduate degree in English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford before moving to University College London to pursue post-graduate research. Her doctoral thesis examined the manuscripts of the Life of Our Lady by the Benedictine monk and poet, John Lydgate (c. 1370–1450).

She has published book chapters and articles on aspects of medieval literature and manuscript study, and co-edited Stasis in the Medieval West: Questioning Change and Continuity for Palgrave in 2017. Alongside her academic work, Mary also writes and reviews for non-academic publications. Her work has appeared in The Times and The Telegraph amongst others, and she is a regular contributor to The Lon ...more

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	The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts 4.11 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers 4.28 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angels & Saints: With a Guide to the Illustrations by Mary Wellesley by Eliot Weinberger, Mary Wellesley (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems by Julia Boffey (Contributor), Christiania Whitehead (Editor), Thomas G. Duncan (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The scale of bibliographic loss during the Reformation is hard to estimate, but it is clear that what survives of England's medieval textual heritage represents a small fraction of medieval books that existed before 1536.
Of the more than six hundred volumes in the medieval catalogue of the Augustinian Friary in York, only five books have survived, while of the three hundred volumes that the bibliophile benefactor Duke Humphrey gave to the University of Oxford, only two survived the Reformation.”
― Mary Wellesley, Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

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“What is magical about the oldest books [is] that they have been handled and mishandled by so many people in their history; they are smudged with human stories.”
― Mary Wellesley, Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

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“On the final folio he added a coda in the margin - 'I am called Aldred, born {son of] Aelfred; I speak as the distinguished son of a good woman' - and we hear him, centuries on.”
― Mary Wellesley, Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

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