Author: Peter J. LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A Fifteenth-century Copyist at Work Under Authorial Scrutiny
Author: Peter J. LucasJordanus Saxonia: Vita S. Augustine
Author: John CapgravePublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888441386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
Author: Alexandra GillespiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes
Author: M.B. ParkesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351880063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible movements.The purpose of this study is to focus on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. The book opens with three chapters surveying the various environments in which scribes worked in the medieval West. The following five, based on the author's Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford, then examine different aspects of the subject, starting with the basic processes of handwriting and copying. Next come discussions of developments in rapid handwriting, with its consequent influence on new alphabets; on more formal 'set hands'; and on the adaptation of movements of the pen to produce elements of style corresponding to changes in the prevailing sense of decorum. The final chapter looks at the significance of some customized images produced by handwriting on the page. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied by a glossary of the technical terms applied to handwriting, which in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject.
A Bibliographical Companion
Author: Roy StokesPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461736625
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
During even a cursory reading of the "literature about books," students of bibliography frequently have initial difficulties in understanding some of the terms they encounter. In A Bibliographical Companion, Roy Stokes provides an alphabetical list of such words and phrases. In this volume, the terms are defined briefly, their importance is discussed, and the author provides suggested readings designed to lead the student towards a more complete understanding. Aimed at students who are at an early stage of their bibliographical interests, A Bibliographical Companion is an invaluable resource.
From Author to Audience
Author: Peter J. LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The author explores what is known about the medieval publishing process by close study of the work of John Capgrave (1393-1464), a prolific author and one of the most learned Englishmen of his day. In the Middle Ages, before the age of printing, the author was often his own scribe and almost invariably his own editor and publisher. Lucas shows how works newly composed by an author were prepared. Capgrave's linguistic and scribal usages are set in the socio-historical context of the 15th century.
The Year's Work in English Studies
Author: Laurel BrakePublisher:
ISBN: 9780719541322
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism
Author: Alastair J. MinnisPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
New essays exploring the complex issues involved in editing Middle English texts.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of All Souls College, Oxford
Author: Andrew G. WatsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This catalogue, the first in 150 years, describes 112 manuscript books and over 200 fragments, including about 95 books that have been at All Souls since the fifteenth century. They and later acquisitions contain material that will interest historians, literary, linguistic, liturgical students, and historians of science, medicine and law.
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