Author: Hellmut Schumann, ZurichPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Incunables and Textual Manuscripts of the Middle Ages
Author: Hellmut Schumann, ZurichPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Medieval Texts and Their First Appearance in Print
Author: Ernst Philip GoldschmidtPublisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602268
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Medieval Texts and Images
Author: Margaret M. ManionPublisher: Craftsman House (AU)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A handsome volume of essays that will be of interest to an international audience with a wide range of specializations.
The Medieval Manuscript Book
Author: Michael JohnstonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107066190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
The Late Medieval Hebrew Book in the Western Mediterranean
Author: Javier del BarcoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004306102
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This collection takes the Hebrew book as a focal point for exploring the production, circulation, transmission, and consumption of Hebrew texts in the cultural context of the late medieval western Mediterranean. The authors elaborate in particular on questions concerning private vs. public book production and collection; the religious and cultural components of manuscript patronage; collaboration between Christian and Jewish scribes, artists, and printers; and the impact of printing on Iberian Jewish communities. Unlike other approaches that take context into consideration merely to explain certain variations in the history of the Hebrew book from antiquity to the present, the premise of these essays is that context constitutes the basis for understanding practices and processes in late medieval Jewish book culture.
Catalogue
Author: William Salloch (Ossining, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 35
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The Middle Ages
Author: William Salloch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Incunables and Textual Manuscrips of the Middle Ages
Author: Piety in Pieces
Author: Kathryn M. RudyPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783742364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?
Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts
Author: Kathryn Kerby-FultonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780801478307
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as The Canterbury Tales, Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and the romances, mystical works or cycle plays, but who may not know much about the surviving manuscripts. The book approaches these texts in a way that takes into account the whole manuscript or codex--its textual and visual contents, physical state, readership, and cultural history. Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts also explores the function of illustrations in fashioning audience response to particular authors and their texts over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuriesKathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linda Olson, and Maidie Hilmo--scholars at the forefront of the modern study of Middle English manuscripts--focus on the writers most often taught in Middle English courses, including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, the Gawain Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe, highlighting the specific issues that shaped literary production in late medieval England. Among the topics they address are the rise of the English language, literacy, social conditions of authorship, early instances of the "Alliterative Revival," women and book production, nuns' libraries, patronage, household books, religious and political trends, and attempts at revisionism and censorship. Inspired by the highly successful study of Latin manuscripts by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (also published by Cornell), this book demonstrates how the field of Middle English manuscript studies, with its own unique literary and artistic environment, is changing modern approaches to the culture of the book.