Further Books Annotated by Stephen Batman
2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/library/11.2.227
ISSN1744-8581
AutoresA. S. G. Edwards, Simon Horobin,
Tópico(s)Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
ResumoStephen Batman(c. 1542–1584), cleric and scholar,1 is now generally recognized as a figure of some literary and historical interest. His expansion of John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum, printed as Batman vppon Bartholome (1582; STC 1538), transmitted medieval lore widely in the English Renaissance. Of his other publications, The Trauayled Pylgrime (1569; STC 1585), has been identified as an influence on Spenser.2 In addition, Batman was a member of Archbishop Matthew Parker's circle and assisted him in the assembling of his large collection of medieval manuscripts to justify the Anglican cause, as he continued the work begun by Leland and Bale. In assisting Parker Batman testifies that he acquired […] many bookes of Antiquitie […] of Diuinitie, Astronomie, Historie, Phisicke, and others of sundrye Artes and Sciences […] sixe thousand seauen hundred Bookes […].3 Possibly not all these books remained with Parker. For Batman was evidently a collector of manuscripts in his own right. Malcolm Parkes has identified twenty-four that were either owned or annotated by Batman, of which ten are in Middle English, often of devotional prose works.4 It is possible, however, to slightly enlarge our sense of Batman as collector through the identification of further manuscripts he annotated. These are:
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