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The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis
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ISBN: 9781501518713 1501518712 9781501510014 1501510010 Year: 2020 Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E IV: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of Guillaume de Nangis, copied in the abbey library of St-Denis-en-France. The authors shed new light on the production process, identifying the illuminator of the Royal MS and naming the scribe. Detailed evidence links the codex to important events in history, such as the Council of Constance, and famous actors like Jean de France, duc de Berry, Sigismund of Luxembourg, Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, and Henry VIII, to name a few. The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and interesting times of this codex. Another dimension of this study accounts for all twenty-two copies of the Chronicle, now scattered in nine cities from London to Vienna, placing each one in a scrupulously drawn stemma codicum and sketching its history.


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The birth of the Codex
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ISBN: 0197260616 9780197260616 Year: 1987 Publisher: London: Oxford university press,


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Inscribing knowledge in the medieval book : the power of paratexts
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ISBN: 9781501513329 9781501513114 9781501517884 150151332X 1501513117 1501517880 Year: 2020 Volume: 66 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features – annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles – are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.


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La fabbrica del codice : materiali per la storia del libro nel tardo medioevo
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ISBN: 8885669751 9788885669758 Year: 1999 Volume: 14 Publisher: Roma: Viella,

Codicologica : towards a science of handwritten books
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ISBN: 9004045775 9004056513 9004056505 9004045783 9004062696 9004062718 9789004045781 9789004045774 9789004062719 9789004062696 9789004056510 9789004056503 Year: 1980 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,


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Introduction to working with manuscripts for medievalists
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ISBN: 9781463206437 1463206437 146323726X 9781463237264 Year: 2017 Publisher: Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press,

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A short guide for studying, editing and translating medieval texts in manuscript form, outlining the technical steps for preparing a medieval manuscript for print: evaluating and describing the manuscript itself (transmission, provenance, and physical description), textual criticism (reconstruction, emendation, authenticity, dating, and authorship), and steps to preparing an edition or translation.


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Writing on skin in the age of Chaucer
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ISBN: 9783110578133 9783110575729 3110575876 3110578131 9783110575873 9783110709612 3110575728 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious, philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. It presents four main aspects of the complex relations between text, parchment, and human skin as they have been discussed in recent scholarship. These four aspects are, first, the (mostly figurative) resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin, second, parchment as a space of contact between animal and human spheres, third, human skin and parchment as sites where (gender) identities are negotiated, and fourth, the place of medieval skin studies within cultural studies and its relationship to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult demarcation of skin from body, the instability of any inscription, and the skin’s precarious state as an entity of its own.


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Pour une histoire du livre manuscrit au Moyen Age : trois essais de codicologie quantitative.
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ISBN: 2222027128 2222032628 9782222027126 Year: 1988 Volume: 2 Publisher: Paris : CNRS,

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