Introduction to Manuscript Studies

by Clemens, Raymond; Graham, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780801438639
• ISBN10: 0801438632
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

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

Author Biography

Timothy Graham is Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Making the Medieval Manuscript
Writing Supports	p. 3
Text and Decoration	p. 18
Correction, Glossing, and Annotation	p. 35
Assembling, Binding, and Storing the Completed Manuscript	p. 49
Reading the Medieval Manuscript
Introduction to Part 2	p. 67
Working with Medieval Manuscripts	p. 71
Punctuation and Abbreviation	p. 82
Encounters with Damaged Manuscripts	p. 94
Assessing Manuscript Origin and Provenance	p. 117
Manuscript Description	p. 129
Selected Scripts	p. 135
Some Manuscript Genres
The Bible and Related Texts	p. 181
Liturgical Books and Their Calendars	p. 192
Books of Hours	p. 208
Charters and Cartularies	p. 222
Maps	p. 240
Rolls and Scrolls	p. 250
Tools for the Study of Medieval Latin	p. 259
Glossary	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 293
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