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Pages from the Past - Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books (Paperback)
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Pages from the Past - Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two
overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books
in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of
legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in
which medieval books were produced, copied and read. The individual
studies discuss the handwriting of individual scribes, and the
evidence script can provide of the circumstances of a book's
production, the effect of punctuation and layout of text on the
reader's interpretation of a work, and the provision and production
of books for communities of readers, both clerical and academic.
From a discussion of the scribe of the Hereford Mappa Mundi to a
comprehensive study of book provision in the medieval University of
Oxford, a wealth of information is conveyed in these articles, now
conveniently accessible in one volume, about books and their
histories by one of the most knowledgeable of manuscript scholars
today.
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