John Hanson (1517-99) of Rastrick, Yorkshire, who worked as a scrivener and legal agent, began to compile his household book at an uncertain time, and completed it by 1589 at the earliest. It
is an almost entirely Elizabethan anthology, say May and Marotti, containing a wide variety of texts--literary and nonliterary, prose and verse, and secular and spiritual. They characterize it
as a rare example of the provincial anthology that records works of local interest that seldom or never penetrated the main networks of scribal transmission connecting London with the two
universities. They present the text with considerable commentary and annotation. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
