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Index
Cover Halftitle page Title Page Copyright page Preface and Acknowledgments Contents List of Contributors Introduction
Origins Developments in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Part I. Script
I.1: Organizing Script
1. Punctuation 2. Abbreviations 3. The Palaeography of Numerals
The Forms of Numerals The Syntax of Numerals Bibliographical Survey Table of the Different Forms of Numerals Used in the Middle Ages
I.2: Greco-Roman Heritage
4. Old Roman Cursive 5. New Roman Cursive(IVth–VIIth centuries)
Suggested Reading
6. Capital Scripts
Mature Rustic Capitals Manuscripts in Square Capitals Rustic Capitals in England Carolingian Capital Scripts
7. Uncial Script 8. Half-Uncial 9. Greek Script In Latin Manuscripts
I.3: Early Medieval Hands
10. Beneventan (South Italian/Langobardic) Script
The Early Stage The Tenth Century The Eleventh Century The Later Period
11. The Visigothic Script
Definition Names Types of Visigothic Script Genetic Origin of the Round and Cursive Scripts Chronological Origin Geographical Origin Fixation of Types and Heyday of the Script Letterforms and Abbreviations in Visigothic Script at its Peak Abbreviations Orthography Numerals Regional Variations The Decline of the Visigothic Script
12. Luxeuil 13. Scripts of Merovingian Gaul
Laon az Script Corbie eN Script ab Script Maurdramnus Script b Minuscule
14. ST. Gall Scripts
St. Gall Scripts Pre-Caroline Scripts: Rhaetian, Alemannic, and St. Gall Minuscule Caroline Scripts
15. Insular Script
Introduction/Overview Development Characteristics and Letterforms Abbreviations and Ligatures
I.4: Carolingian Minuscule
16. Early Caroline: France and Germany
Western Francia Eastern Francia Mainz Trier Bavaria and Austria Reims Lorsch Fulda Würzburg Breton
17. Early Carolingian: Italy
The Transition to Caroline Script The Triumph of Caroline Roman Caroline and the Dawn of “Romanesca” Documents
18. Late Carolingian: Italy
1000–1110 1110–70/1180
19. Tironian Notes
I.5: Gothic
20. The Nomenclature of Gothic Scripts 21. Gothic Script in France in the Later Middle Ages(XIIIth–XVth centuries)
From the Beginning of the thirteenth Century to the Second Quarter of the fourteenth Century From the Second Quarter of the fourteenth Century to the First Quarter of the fifteenth Century From the Second Quarter of the fifteenth Century to the Beginning of the sixteenth century
22. The Emergence of Formal Gothic Script In England 23. Gothic Script in England c.1300–1500
Gothic in England 1300–1400 Gothic in England 1400–1500
24. Gothic Script in Germany
The Transition from Carolingian to Gothic Script Early Gothic Minuscule Textura (Textualis Formata) Textualis Cursive Scripts Bastarda Fraktur Humanist and Italianate Scripts Kurrent Documentary and Commercial Scripts
25. Gothic Script in Italy 26. Late Gothic: Italy (XIVth–XVIth centuries)
Suggested Reading
27. Late Gothic Script: The Netherlands
Textualis Cursiva Hybrida Other Scripts
28. Gothic Writing in Bohemia and Moravia 29. Late Medieval Written Culture in the Realm of King St. Stephan: Gothic and later script in Hungary and Slovakia
Methodological Problems and Summary of Research The Beginnings of Gothic Script in the Hungarian Kingdom Book Writing: From Early to Late Gothic Gothic Script in the Diplomatic Field Early Renaissance Written Culture in the Realm of King St. Stephan: Humanistic Script in Hungary and Slovakia
30. Early Printing and Palaeography
Abbreviations
I.6: Humanist
31. Humanistic Script: Origins 32. Humanistic Script: Italy
The First Generation in Florence The First Experience in the Veneto and in Lombardy The Second Half of the Century Suggested Reading Abbreviations
33. Byzantium and the West
Petrarch and the Greeks Coluccio Salutati and Chrysoloras The Early Humanist Translators from the Greek
34. The Waning of Manuscript Production
The Period of Transition Manuscripts at the Margins Digital Scriptorium Illustrations
Part II. Material Embodiment and Techniques
35. Stages in Manuscript Production
The Codex Materials Transcription of Texts Assembling the Book Owners and Readers (Material Evidence) Abbreviations
36. Stages in Diplomatic Production
Documentation in the Early Middle Ages
37. The Mise-En-Page In Western Manuscripts
Some Examples of mise-en-page Suggested Reading
38. Formats of Books
“Format” = Size “Format” = Proportion Material Format Working on Undivided Sheets Non-Codex “Formats”
39. The Format of Documents 40. The Application of Quantitative Methods to the History of the Book
Quantifying Medieval Book Production Typographical Composition in the Early Printing Shops Thickness of Parchment and the Organization of Quires in a Manuscript Book Recipes or Formulas for Calculating the Page Layout in Medieval Manuscripts The Rhythms of the Scribe: The Gospels of Henry the Lion The Use of a Rake as an Instrument for Ruling
41. Comparative Codicology 42. Pen-Flourished Decoration
Part III. Cultural Setting
43. Orality and Visible Language 44. Who Were the Scribes of Latin Manuscripts? 45. Book Trade: Antiquity and the early Middle Ages 46. The Book Trade in the Middle Ages: The Parisian case
From Monasteries to Universities Controlling the Book Trade A Tightly Bound Community Book Production under the Control of Booksellers
Part IV. Selected Scriptoria and Libraries
47. Scriptoria and Libraries: An overview
The Tradition Reading and Writing in Religious Communities Spaces and Customs Networks of Men and Books in the Carolingian Era Renewal New Books, New Texts New Approaches to Reading Directed Acquisitions Authority Mendicant Orders Copying and Circulation The Organization of Libraries
48. The Lindisfarne Scriptorium 49. Scriptoria and Libraries of Northern Italy(VIth–VIIIth centuries) 50. The Library at Monte Cassino
The Carolingian Age The Period of Exile in Capua The Golden Age: The Century of Abbots Theobald, Desiderius, and Oderisius I The Later Period
51. The Abbey of St. Gall
History of St. Gall The St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek Medieval Learning and Education Medieval Liturgy, Music, and Literature
52. Book Production in Paris 53. The Scriptorium and Library of Salisbury Cathedral 54. Manuscript Production in Florence
Part V. Varieties of Book Usage
55. Books of Hours
History Texts Iconography Penitential Psalms (Usually One of the Following) Office of the Dead (Usually One of the Following) Numbers Distribution Language Formats and scripts Methods of Production Owners and Makers
56. Law at Bologna 57. The Manuscript Miscellany 58. Florilegia
The Question of Terminology Historical Outline Method of Compiling Locating Sources, the Identification of Citations, and the Editing of Anthologies
59. Theological Texts 60. Text and Gloss
Interlinear Glosses: Clarifying the Meaning of the Word Marginal Glosses: Explaining the Organization and the Meaning of the Text Catena Commentaries: Becoming the Text Observations on Layout
61. Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Grammars
Glosses Grammar
62. The History of Manuscripts Since 1500
Introduction From Medieval Institution to Private Collectors The Rise of Princely Libraries Italian Libraries in the Counter-Reformation Collectors and Libraries in Holland and England Secularization and Revolution Collectors in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Old Hazards and New Technologies
63. Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts
Introduction Template for a Description of a Codex
List of Permissions Index of Manuscripts General Index
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