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"This is a book about manuscripts; about the men and women who wrote, read, bought, sold, presented, and received them. It is also a book about paper, pen, and ink, and a book about those for whom writing by hand was a necessary and profitable part of their lives."--Introduction.

Book history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Great Britain --- Book industries and trade --- -Book industries and trade --- -English poetry --- -Manuscripts, English --- -Printing --- -History --- -Publishing --- History --- -Sidney, Philip --- Manuscripts --- 091 <41> --- 091 SIDNEY, PHILIP --- 094 SIDNEY, PHILIP --- -Literature publishing --- -Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- English manuscripts --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--SIDNEY, PHILIP --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--SIDNEY, PHILIP --- Sidney, Philip Sir --- -Manuscripts --- Literature publishing --- Manuscripts, English --- Printing --- -Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- -Sidney, Philip Sir --- 094 SIDNEY, PHILIP Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--SIDNEY, PHILIP --- 091 SIDNEY, PHILIP Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--SIDNEY, PHILIP --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Literary publishing --- Publishing --- Sidney, Philip, --- Sidnei, Philippe, --- Sydney, Philip, --- Сидни, Филип, --- Manuscripts. --- England --- 17th century --- Manuscripts, English - History - 16th century. --- Manuscripts, English - History - 17th century. --- Book industries and trade - England - History - 16th century. --- Printing - England - History - 16th century. --- Printing - England - History - 17th century. --- English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Publishing. --- Sidneus, Philippus --- Book industries and trade - - History - - 16th century - England --- -Book industries and trade - - History - - 17th century - England --- -English poetry - - Publishing - Early modern, 1500-1700 --- -Manuscripts, English - - History - - 16th century --- Manuscripts, English - - History - - 17th century --- Printing - - History - - 17th century - England --- -Printing - - History - - 16th century - England --- -Sidney, Philip - Sir - - Manuscripts --- -Sidney, Philip - Sir --- -Book history

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Imagining the Book offers a snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book. This volume responds to the recent development and institutionalization of ‘History of the Book’ within the wider discipline. Scholars working in the pre-printing era with the material vestiges of a predominantly manuscript culture are currently establishing their own models of production and reception. Research in this area is now an accepted part of twenty-first century medieval studies. Within such a context, it is frequently observed that scribal culture found imaginative ways to deal with the technological watersheds represented by the transition from memory to written record, roll to codex, or script to print. In such an ‘eventful’ environment, texts and books not infrequently slip through the semi-permeable boundaries laboured over by previous generations of medievalists, boundaries that demarcate orality and literacy; ‘literary’ and ‘historical’; ‘religious’ and ‘secular’; pre- and post-Conquest compositions, or ‘medieval’ and ‘Renaissance’ attitudes and writings. Once texts are regarded as offering indices of community- or self-definition, or models of piety and good behaviour (and the codices holding them statements of prestige and influence), the book historian is left to contemplate the real or imagined importance and status of books and writing within the larger socio-political, often local, milieux in which they were once produced and read.

091 <41> --- 09 <063> --- 091 =20 --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 09 <063> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1000-1099 --- England --- Books and reading --- Books --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English --- History --- Intellectual life --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Transmission of texts --- Geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen --- Geschiedenis van het boek --- Handschriften --- Histoire du Moyen Age --- Histoire du livre --- Manuscrits --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- English manuscripts --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Books and reading - Congresses - History - To 1500 - England --- Books - England - History - 1400-1600 - Congresses --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - Congresses --- Manuscripts, English - History - 16th century - Congresses --- England - Congresses - Intellectual life - 1066-1485