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Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West : Explorations with a Global Database.
Drawing on statistical techniques and samples this book offers an estimate of medieval production rates of manuscripts in the Latin West. Such information is a helpful production indicator for a period of which we have so little other quantitative data.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2010.
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| Colección: | Global economic history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Medieval Manuscript Productionin the Latin West
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
- LIST OF SYMBOLS, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS1
- COLOUR PLATES
- CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER TWO METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
- 2.1 Manuscripts
- Palimpsests
- 2.2 Database
- Inclusion criteria
- Library
- Time period
- Geographical differentiation
- 2.3 Validations of the Database
- Rolls and codices in Egypt, 1st to 5th century
- Latin Gospel Books copied from the 5th to the 8th century
- Books in Egyptian church property, 7th to 8th century
- Medieval monastic catalogues.
- CHAPTER FIVE PRODUCTION OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTSIN THE LATIN WEST
- 5.1 Calculation of Production Rates
- Method to fi nd the production rates of manuscripts
- Resulting estimate of manuscript production in the Latin West
- 5.2 Comparison of Estimates
- Comparisons with hand-written books
- Comparisons with printed books
- 5.3 On Uncertainties in the Production Estimates
- Database construction and adjustments
- Reciprocal Survival factor
- Compound uncertainty
- 5.4 Further Discussions and Conclusions
- Discussion on spatial calibration factors
- Conclusions.
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER FOUR LOSSES OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
- 4.1 Loss Rates
- Assessment of loss rates
- Random losses of manuscripts
- Non-random loss
- 4.2 Loss Rates in England
- Loss rates from medieval libraries
- Post-medieval loss rates
- 4.3 Loss Rates in the Rest of the World
- Loss rates in the Latin West
- Loss rates in the non-Latin West
- 4.4 Survival of Manuscripts in the Latin West.
- Calculation of loss rates
- Reciprocal survival factors
- 4.5 Discussion and Conclusions on Losses of Manuscripts
- Discussion
- Conclusions.
- Latin bestiaries, 11th to 15th century
- CMD, catalogue des manuscrits datés
- Dutch Alba Amicorum, 16th to 18th centuries
- Conclusions relating to validations
- 2.4 Shelf Marks
- 2.5 Categories of Uses
- 2.6 Loss Rates
- 2.7 Extrapolations and Calibrations
- Extrapolations
- Calibrations
- 2.8 Similarity Quantification
- Characterisation of distributions
- Explained variance
- Cluster analysis
- 2.9 Inferences
- Deductions from the database
- 2.10 Historical Data in Latin West
- Population numbers
- Urbanisation
- Universities in the Latin West
- Dioceses.
- Numbers of monasteries
- 2.11 Discussion and Conclusions
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER THREE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS
- 3.1 Total Manuscript Numbers
- Data sleuthing
- Numbers of surviving manuscripts (M)
- Corroborations
- Discussions and conclusions
- 3.2 Distributions of Manuscripts in the Database
- Overview of frequency distributions
- 3.3 Global Uses
- Patterns of global uses
- Users of Books of Hours
- Medieval Renaissances
- 3.4 Shifts in Regional Uses of Manuscripts
- Stability of regional uses
- Trend spotting of regional uses
- 3.5 Discussion and Conclusions.