Reviews for In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England

The average rating for In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-22 00:00:00 David Caylor They say history is in the details. Penny Merriments is one of my favorite resources simply because it's chock-a-block full of details. Samuel Pepys, diarist extraordinaire, collected the ephemera of his day.... leaflets, penny newspapers, racing forms, and any other type of cheap printed writing he could get his hands on. His diligence is our good luck. He saved hundreds of items that weren't meant to survive a week. It's ironic that these insignificant papers meant more to the Londoners of the time than all that high-brow crap we're forced to read in English Lit classes!. Bless you,Samuel Pepys, for your foresight!

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-30 00:00:00 David Kaufman Because the collection is mostly full of things that have been excerpted, it is fine for an overall sense of the type of things in the collection, but lousy for trying to follow any one thing through for continuity's sake.