FROM MANUSCRIPT INTO PRINT: THE FESTIAL, THE FOUR SERMONS, AND THE QUATTUOR SERMONES1

Even more revisions may emerge when the EETS publishes Susan Powell's edition of the Festial.\n Fredson Bowers observed that in some 'seventeenth-century books ... the type for running-titles was not distributed with the rest of the letterpress after each forme was printed, but was left standing instead and used again in subsequent formes'.66 It has now been established that this practice seems to have developed much earlier than the seventeenth century and is observable in the headings of the sermon for 'Dominica in septuagesima' (4^sup v^- 9^sup r^, 1494 Festial) where a repeated mistake in the running tide of folios 5^sup 1^ and 7^sup r^ (the first a in 'septuagésima' marked with a macron) evidences reuse.67 Similarly, the running tides for the Quattuor sermones show repeated reuse of pre-composed tides: