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Table of contents :
Cover
The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography
Copyright
Preface and Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction1
Origins
Developments in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Bibliography
Part I: Script
I . 1: Organizing Script
Chapter 1: Punctuation
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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
Bibliography
I . 2: Greco-Roman Heritage
Chapter 4: Old Roman Cursive
Suggested Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5: New Roman Cursive: (IVth–VIIth centuries)
Suggested Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Capital Scripts
Mature Rustic Capitals
Manuscripts in Square Capitals
Rustic Capitals in England
Carolingian Capital Scripts
Bibliography
Notes
Chapter 7: Uncial Script
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Half-Uncial
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Greek Script in Latin Manuscripts
Notes
Bibliography
I . 3: Early Medieval Hands
Chapter 10: Beneventan (South Italian/Langobardic) Script
The Early Stage
The Tenth Century
The Eleventh Century
The Later Period
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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
The Visigothic round script
Letterforms
Joinings and ligatures
The Visigothic cursive script
Letterforms
Joinings and ligatures
Abbreviations
Orthography
Numerals
Regional Variations
The Decline of the Visigothic Script
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Luxeuil
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 13: Scripts of Merovingian Gaul
Laon az Script
Corbie
eN Script
ab Script
Maurdramnus Script
b Minuscule
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 14: St. Gall Scripts
St. Gall Scripts
Pre-Caroline Scripts: Rhaetian, Alemannic, and St. Gall Minuscule
Caroline Scripts
Early and High St. Gall Caroline
Tenth and early eleventh centuries
Late Caroline
Bibliography
Chapter 15: Insular Script
Introduction/Overview
Development
Characteristics and Letterforms
Abbreviations and Ligatures
Bibliography
I . 4: Carolingian Minuscule
Chapter 16: Early Caroline: France and Germany
Western Francia
The Court of Charlemagne
Saint-Denis
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Paris
Tours
Saint-Amand
Eastern Francia
Metz
Cambrai
Mainz
Trier
Bavaria and Austria
Reims
Lorsch
Fulda
Würzburg
Breton
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 17: Early Carolingian: Italy
The Transition to Caroline Script
The Triumph of Caroline
Roman Caroline and the Dawn of “Romanesca”
Documents
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 18: Late Carolingian: Italy
1000–1110
1110–70/1180
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 19: Tironian Notes
Note
Bibliography
I . 5: Gothic
Chapter 20: The Nomenclature of Gothic Scripts
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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
Littera textualis formata
Southern littera texualis or littera rotunda
Remarks on the different forms of littera textualis
From the Second Quarter of the fourteenth Century to the First Quarter of the fifteenth Century
The evolution of littera texualis formata
Littera cursiva formata
Littera Hybrida
Research by French humanists on script
From the Second Quarter of the fifteenth Century to the Beginning of the sixteenth century
Bastarda script
Regional diversity
The printed book
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 22: The Emergence of Formal Gothic Script in England
Notes
Chapter 23: Gothic Script in England C.1300–1500
Gothic in England 1300–1400
Gothic in England 1400–1500
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 25: Gothic Script in Italy
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 26: Late Gothic: Italy (XIVth–XVIth centuries)
Suggested Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 27: Late Gothic Script: The Netherlands
Textualis
Cursiva
Hybrida
Other Scripts
Note
Bibliography
Chapter 28: Gothic Writing in Bohemia and Moravia
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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
Book scripts
Humanistic script in charters
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 30: Early Printing and Palaeography
Abbreviations
Bibliography
I . 6: Humanist
Chapter 31: Humanistic Script: Origins
Suggested Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 33: Byzantium and the West
Petrarch and the Greeks
Plutarch
Homer
Coluccio Salutati and Chrysoloras
The Early Humanist Translators from the Greek
Leonardo Bruni
Guarino Veronese
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 34: The Waning of Manuscript Production
The Period of Transition
Manuscripts at the Margins
Digital Scriptorium Illustrations
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: Material Embodiment and Techniques
Chapter 35: Stages in Manuscript Production
The Codex
Materials
Writing Surfaces
Parchment
History
Production and Use
Paper
History
Manufacture and Use
Papyrus (Medieval Uses)
Inks
Preparing the Writing Surface for Copying
Ruling
Pricking
Transcription of Texts
Writing Process
Colophons and Subscriptions
Peculiarities
Imposition
“Pecia”
Palimpsests
Assembling the Book
Quires
Folding Formulas
Signatures, Catchwords, Foliation, and Pagination
Foliation and Pagination
Signatures
Catchwords
Methods for Sewing Quires
Scrolls (Medieval Uses)
Owners and Readers (Material Evidence)
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 36: Stages in Diplomatic Production
Documentation in the Early Middle Ages
Bibliography
Chapter 37: The Mise-En-Page in Western Manuscripts
Some Examples of mise-en-page
A Codex of the Fifth Century Modeled on the Ancient Roll
Reading Aids and Editorial Work in a Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century
Hierarchy of Scripts and Inks in a Manuscript of the Ninth Century
An Authoritative Text with Commentary
Double Page in a Manuscript of the Ninth Century
Suggested Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 38: Formats of Books
“Format” = Size
“Format” = Proportion
Material Format
Working on Undivided Sheets
Non-Codex “Formats”
Bibliography
On size and format
On imposition
On tackets
On rolls
On folded almanacs
Chapter 39: The Format Of Documents Olivier Guyotjeannia
Suggested Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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 Rulin
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 41: Comparative Codicology Malachi Beit-Arle
Bibliography
Chapter 42: Pen-Flourished Decoration Alison Stones
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: Cultural Setting
Chapter 43: Orality and Visible Language Paul Saenge
Bibliography
Chapter 44: Who Were The Scribes Of Latin Manuscripts?
Bibliography
Chapter 45: Book Trade Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Notes
book trade in the ancient
Suggested Reading
Chapter 46: The Book Trade in the middle Ages
From Monasteries to Universities
production and sale of books in
A Tightly Bound Community
Book Production under the Control of Booksellers
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV: Selected Scriptoria and Libraries
Chapter 47: Scriptoria and Libraries
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
Bibliography
Handbooks
Paleography
Codicology
History of Book and Libraries
History of Book and Libraries: Websites (Europe, France and Italy)
Italy
Printed Sources
Manuscripts
Ancient Libraries
Texts
Studies
Manuscripts and texts
The Libraries
History of Script and Reading
Chapter 48: The Lindisfarne Scriptorium
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 49: Scriptoria and Libraries of Northern Italy
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 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
Bibliography
Chapter 51: The Abbey of St. Gall
History of St.Gall
The St.Gall Stiftsbibliothek
Medieval Learning and Education
Medieval Liturgy ,Music, and Literature
Bibliography
Chapter 52: Book Production in Paris
Notes
Suggested Reading
Chapter 53: The Scriptorium and Library of Salisbury Cathedral
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 54: Manuscript Production in Florence
Acknowledgments
List of Manuscripts
Bibliograhpy
Part V: Varieties of Book Usage
Chapter 55: Books Of Hours
History
Texts
Calendar
Gospel pericopes
Prayers to the Virgin Mary
Hours of the Virgin
Other Hours
Penitential Psalms and Litany
Suffrages to Saints
Office of the Dead
Psalms and abbreviated Psalters
Joys of the Virgin
Devotional sequences
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
Bibliography
Chapter 56: Law at Bologna
Bibliography
Chapter 57: The Manuscript Miscellany
Bibliography
Specific manuscripts
Other Works
Chapter 58: Florilegia
The Question of Terminology
Historical Outline
Method of Compiling
Locating Sources, the Identification of Citations, and the Editing of Anthologies
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 59: Theological Texts
Chapter 60: Text and Gloss
Interlinear GlosseslClarifying the Meaning of the Word
Marginal Glosses: Explaining the Organization and the Meaning of the Text
Catena Commentaries: Becoming the Text
Observations on Layout
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 61: Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Grammars
Glosses
Grammar
Bibliography
Chapter 62: The History of Manuscripts Since 1500
Introduction
From Medieval Institution to Private Collectors
The Rise of Princely Libraries
unique for the number and variety
Secularization and Revolution
Collectors in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Old Hazards and New Technologies
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 63: Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts
Introduction
Template for a Description of a Codex
63.2.1 Heading
63.2.1.1 Date(s) of the cataloguer’s work with the manuscript
63.2.1.2 Shelf Mark (Class Mark; Call Number)
63.2.1.3 Tombstone Title
63.2.1.4 Place of Origin
63.2.1.5 Date of Origin
63.2.1.6 Notes
63.2.2 Intellectual Content
63.2.2.1 Span of Folios
63.2.2.2 Rubric
63.2.2.3 Incipit
63.2.2.4 Explicit
63.2.2.5 Colophon
63.2.2.6 Author
63.2.2.7 Title
63.2.2.8 Overview
63.2.2.9 Bibliography Relevant to Text
63.2.2.10 Acknowledgments
63.2.3 Physical Description
63.2.3.1Support
63.2.3.2 Number of Leaves in Codex
63.2.3.3 Measurements In Millimeters
63.2.3.3.1 Book Block
63.2.3.3.2 Text Block
63.2.3.4 Collation
63.2.3.4.1 Quire Signatures
63.2.3.4.2 Leaf Signatures
63.2.3.4.3 Catchwords
63.2.3.5 Layout
63.2.3.6 Script
63.2.3.6.1 Alphabet
63.2.3.7 Scribe(s)
63.2.3.8 Musical Notation
63.2.3.9 Decoratio
63.2.3.9.1 artist(s) or style(s)
63.2.3.9.2 miniatures
63.2.3.9.3 border
63.2.3.9.4 historiated initials
63.2.3.9.5 painted initials
63.2.3.9.6 penflourished initials
63.2.3.10 Evidence of Reader(s)
63.2.3.11 Accompanying Material
63.2.3.12 Binding
63.2.3.13 Acknowledgments
63.2.3.14 Condition
63.2.4 History of the Codex
63.2.4.1 Origin
63.2.4.2 Provenance
63.2.4.3 Former Shelf Marks
63.2.4.4 Secundo Folio
63.2.5 Other
63.2.5.1 Bibliography Relevant to Manuscript
63.2.5.2 Acknowledgments
63.2.5.3 Available Reproductions
63.2.5.4 Images
63.2.5.5 Administrative Information
Notes
Bibliography
List of Permissions
Index of Manuscripts
General Index