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The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy's research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted ware, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection.

Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Medieval

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"Fabliau, Exempel, Märe, Novelle, Fazetie, Schwank: im Spätmittelalter erfreuten sich Kurzerzählungen aller Art großer Beliebtheit. Die meisten wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen betrachten diese Texte losgelöst von ihren Überlieferungskontexten und analysieren sie einzeln und für sich genommen. Tatsächlich sind die Kurzerzählungen jedoch immer in Sammlungen tradiert, sei es in handschriftlichen oder in gedruckten. Der Fokus auf die Verbindung zwischen der epischen Kleinform und dem Textkonglomerat, in dem sie präsentiert wird, eröffnet zahlreiche Untersuchungsperspektiven. Es sind deshalb vor allem die Spannungsfelder Einzeltext vs. Sammlung und Handschrift vs. Druck, die den Rahmen für die in diesem Band vereinigten Studien bilden. Dabei werden nicht nur deutschsprachige Sammlungen in den Blick genommen, sondern im Vergleich dazu auch französische, italienische und englische Beispiele berücksichtigt."--Page 4 of cover.

Manuscripts, European. --- Manuscripts, Medieval.

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Medieval manuscripts combining multiple languages, whether in fusion or in collision, provide tangible evidence for linguistic and cultural interactions. Such encounters are documented in this volume through case studies from across Europe and Asia, all the way from Ireland to Japan, exploring the creativity of medieval language use as a function of cross-cultural contact and fluidity in this key period of nation-formation (9th-14th centuries CE).

Codicology. --- Manuscripts, Medieval.

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Llawysgrif Pomffred presents for the first time an edition of an overlooked Welsh law manuscript, Peniarth 259B. This is an important and groundbreaking edition which will contribute to our understanding of the relationship and development of the Welsh law texts. The manuscript contains a law text of the Cyfnerth redaction, seen to be the earliest of the Welsh law redactions, and it also has a lengthy tail of additional material which is largely practical in nature, and seems to reflect the legal situation in the March of Wales, with English and Welsh legal customs being mixed. The manuscript may have been given to a certain Einion ab Adda whilst he was in prison in Pontefract.

Law --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- History --- Howel,

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Il monastero regio di San Salvatore al monte Amiata, fondato, secondo la tradizione, nell'VIII secolo per volontà dei re longobardi in prossimità delle terre pontificie, è stato negli ultimi decenni al centro di numerose ricerche dedicate non solo ad alcuni celebri codici conservati per secoli nella sua biblioteca, ma anche alle sue scritture documentarie, tramandate nel Diplomatico che raccoglie documentazione a partire dalla metà del secolo VIII. In questo volume l'interpretazione paleografica e diplomatistica delle scritture elaborate dagli abati e dai monaci amiatini si intreccia con la ricostruzione delle pratiche di gestione del potere, sia nella sua dimensione locale sia in quella dei rapporti con papi e imperatori.

Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Abbadia San Salvatore (Siena, Italy)