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The application of statistical techniques to the study of
manuscript books, based on the analysis of large data sets acquired
through the archaeological observation of manuscripts, is one of
the most original trends in codicological research, aiming not only
to reconstruct on a sound basis the methods and processes used in
book manufacture and their tendential evolution in space and time,
but also to interpret them as the result of a dynamic interplay
between various and often incompatible needs (of cultural,
technical, social and economic nature) that book artisans had to
reconcile in the best possible way. The present collection of
essays in English translation was guided by the desire to offer a
multifarious well-articulated picture of the application of
statistical methodology to the various aspects of manuscript
production, namely analysis of materials, characterization of book
types, manufacturing techniques, planning and use of layout
characterization of scripts and scribal habits. The volume aims to
present to a wider readership a series of significant papers which
have appeared over the last fifteen years, by means of which the
statistical approach continues to demonstrate its vast potential.
The present volume provides a comparative look at the contents and
layout features of secondary annotations in biblical manuscripts
across linguistic traditions. Due to the privileged focus on the
text in the columns, these annotations and the practices that
produced them have not received the scholarly attention they
deserve. The vast richness of extant verbal and figurative notes
accompanying the biblical texts in the intercolumns and margins of
the manuscript pages have thus been largely overlooked. The case
studies gathered in this volume explore Jewish and Christian
biblical manuscripts through the lens of their annotations,
addressing the various relationships between the primary layer of
text and the secondary notes, and exploring the roles and functions
of annotated manuscripts as cultural artifacts. By approaching
biblical manuscripts as potential "notepads", the volume offers
theoretical reflection and empirical analyses of the ways in which
secondary notes may shed new light on the development and
transmission of text traditions, the shifting engagement with
biblical manuscripts over time, as well as the change of use and
interpretation that may result from the addition of the notes
themselves.
Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle
ages. Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market
for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume
brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript
studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a
pan-European perspective. They examine the prolonged and varied
processes through which Europe's different parts entered into
modern reading, writing and communicative practices, drawing on a
range ofapproaches and perspectives; they consider material
culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers,
audience and scribes across the Middle Ages. Dr Aidan Conti teaches
in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies,
University of Bergen; Dr Orietta Da Rold teaches in the Faculty of
English, University of Cambridge; Dr Philip Shaw teaches at the
School of English, University of Leicester. Contributors: Rolf H.
Bremmer Jr, Stewart Brookes, Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold, Helen
Fulton, Marilena Maniaci, Debora Matos, Annina Seiler, Peter A.
Stokes, Nadia Togni, Svetlana Tsonkova, Matilda Watson, George
Younge.
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