Looking at Medieval Books : Learning to See Hardback
by Ralph, III (Keble College (United Kingdom)) Hanna
Part of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series
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Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history.
This is a fundamental difficulty for study, particularly for those beginning the investigation of texts in manuscript.
There are two conventional ways of approaching this difficulty: explaining the series of processes by which a manuscript book is constructed and explaining how to construct a professional description of a manuscript book.
Neither addresses a problem fundamental for beginners: what happens when a librarian presents you with a manuscript?
How should you proceed? Fundamentally, this is a problem of visual examination, and taking its procedure from the grand M.
R. James and M. B. Parkes, this book attempts to stimulate the visual and experiential.
It attempts, in a heavily exemplified account, to explain what might be there in a manuscript to perceive and what it might mean.
The argument follows a process of examination that begins with the physical bulk of what's in front of you (and its cover, or binding) and ends with traces of the book's history.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages, 10 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2023
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- ISBN:9781802078572
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages, 10 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781802078572