Author: Caedmon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231515955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Junius Manuscript
The Junius Manuscript
The Rawlinson Manuscript Collection at the Bodleian Library Oxford
Author: Bodleian Library
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Category : Manuscripts, English
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, English
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Rawlinson Manuscript Collection at the Bodleina [i.e. Bodleian] Library, Oxford
Author: Richard Rawlinson
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
It has taken over 400 years for the Bodleian Library to accrue the largest collection of academic books in Britain. To commemorate the foundation of the library by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1602 this volume gathers together contributions by the staff of the library who each discuss a particular section of the collection.
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
It has taken over 400 years for the Bodleian Library to accrue the largest collection of academic books in Britain. To commemorate the foundation of the library by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1602 this volume gathers together contributions by the staff of the library who each discuss a particular section of the collection.
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Manuscripts from the Rawlinson Collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
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Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Author: Catherine McIlwaine
Publisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851244973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851244973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Piety in Pieces
Author: Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher: 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?
Publisher: 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?
Zong!
Author: M. NourbeSe Philip
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819568767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819568767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
Author: Margaret Connolly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426778
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426778
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.