Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the
field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated
book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among
handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination
in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help
to students in history, art history, literature, and religious
studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first
time, while also appealing to advanced scholars and general readers
interested in the history of the book before the age of print.
Introduction to Manuscript Studies features three sections:
Part 1, "Making the Medieval Manuscript," offers an in-depth
examination of the process of manuscript production, from the
preparation of the writing surface through the stages of copying
the text, rubrication, decoration, glossing, and annotation to the
binding and storage of the completed codex.
Part 2, "Reading the Medieval Manuscript," focuses on the skills
necessary for the successful study of manuscripts, with chapters on
transcribing and editing; reading texts damaged by fire, water,
insects, and other factors; assessing evidence for origin and
provenance; and describing and cataloguing manuscripts. This part
ends with a survey of sixteen medieval scripts dating from the
eighth to the fifteenth century.
Part 3, "Some Manuscript Genres," provides an analysis of
several of the most frequently encountered types of medieval
manuscripts, including Bibles and biblical concordances, liturgical
service books, Books of Hours, charters and cartularies, maps, and
rolls and scrolls. The book concludes with an extensive glossary, a
guide to dictionaries of medieval Latin, and a bibliography
subdivided and keyed to the subsections of the volume's
chapters.
Every chapter in this magisterial guidebook features numerous
color plates that exemplify each aspect described in the text and
are drawn primarily from the collections of the Newberry Library in
Chicago and the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge."
General
Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2007 |
First published: |
December 2007 |
Authors: |
Raymond Clemens
• Timothy Graham
|
Dimensions: |
305 x 232 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8014-8708-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8014-8708-0 |
Barcode: |
9780801487088 |
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