John Shirley (scribe)

For other possible meanings see John Shirley (disambiguation)
single folio of a medieval manuscript page
A "Shirleian" manuscript (Houghton Library MS Eng 530): not in Shirley’s own hand, but including texts derived from copies Shirley had made[1]

John Shirley (c. 1366 – 1456) was an author, translator, and scribe. As a scribe of later Middle English literature, he is particularly known for transcribing works by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer.

  1. ^ Partridge, Stephen, “The legacy of John Shirley: revisiting Houghton MS Eng 530,” in New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall, eds. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John J. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), 425-445.