TY - BOOK ID - 61219419 TI - Miscellaneous order : manuscript culture and the early modern organization of knowledge PY - 2019 SN - 0191847135 019253761X 9780192537614 9780198809708 0198809700 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Manuscripts KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 091.14 KW - 091 "15/17" KW - Codices KW - Books KW - Nonbook materials KW - Archival materials KW - Charters KW - Codicology KW - Diplomatics KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts KW - Paleography KW - Transmission of texts KW - 091 "15/17" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Moderne Tijd KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Moderne Tijd KW - 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria KW - Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria KW - E-books KW - Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography KW - manuscripts [documents] KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - England UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61219419 AB - This book examines one of the most pervasive, but also perplexing, textual phenomena of the early modern world: the manuscript miscellany. Faced with multiple problems of definition, categorization, and (often conflicting) terminology, modern scholars have tended to dismiss the miscellany as disorganized and chaotic. Miscellaneous Order radically challenges that view by uncovering the various forms of organization and order previously hidden in early modernmanuscript books. Drawing on original literary and historical research, and examining both the materiality of early modern manuscripts and their contents, this book sheds new light on the transcriptive and archival practices of early modern Britain, as well as on the broader intellectual context of manuscriptculture and its scholarly afterlives.Based on extensive archival research, and interdisciplinary in both subject and matter, Miscellaneous Order focuses on the myriad kinds of manuscript compiled and produced in the early modern era. Showing that the miscellany was essential to the organization of knowledge across a range of genres and disciplines, from poetry to science, and from recipe books to accounts, it proposes a new model for understanding the proliferation of manuscript material in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies. By restoring attention to 'miscellaneous order' in this way, it shows that we have fundamentally misunderstood how early modern men and women read, wrote, and thought. Rather than a textual form characterized by an absence of order, the miscellany, it argues, operated as an epistemically andaesthetically productive system throughout the early modern period. ER -