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Piety in pieces : how medieval readers customized their manuscripts /
"Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Notes to the reader
- Abbreviations used in this book
- Introduction: A new approach to codicology
- Types of augmentations
- Part I: The modular method
- A. Modular and non-modular, compared
- B. The hierarchy of decoration
- C. Modules and blank space
- D. Precursors of book modules
- E. Implications of the modular method
- F. Adopters of the modular method
- G. Complicated stratigraphy
- Part II: Changes that did not require rebinding
- A. Correcting the text
- B. Adding text to the blank folios and interstices ; 1. Noting who owned, commissioned, and paid for items ; 2. Adding family information ; 3. Adding legal documents ; 4. Adding a gloss ; 5. Adding calendrical data ; 6. Changing a text to reflect updated circumstances ; 7. Adding text to make a book appropriate as a didactic tool ; 8. Adding prayers
- C. Augmenting the existing decoration
- D. Drawing or painting images directly onto bound parchment
- E. Adding physical material superficially ; 1. Attaching parchment sheets to blank areas of the book ; 2. Adding other objects to blank parchment
- Part III: Changes that required rebinding
- Rebinding
- A. Adding leaves bearing texts
- B. Adding leaves bearing images ; 1. Images for the most common offices ; 2. Images for indulgences ; 3. Portraits and personalizing details ; 4. Images for adding value ; 5. Images for missals ; 6. Other single-leaf miniatures ; 7. Packages of images ; 8. Images removed from one manuscript and inserted into another
- C. Adding quires ; 1. Adding a bifolium ; 2. Adding one or more full quires
- Part IV: Complicated interventions and complete overhauls
- Building a book out of disparate quires
- A. An atelier in Bruges
- B. Unica
- C. The convent of St. Ursula ; 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Rawl. Liturg. E.9* ; 2. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Ms. 132 G ; 3. Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Ms. C 517 k
- D. The convent of St. Agnes in Delft
- E. The Masters of the Dark Eyes ; 1. Alongside the Master of Gijsbrecht van Brederode ; 2. Leeds, Brotherton Ms. 7 with an added booklet
- Part V: Patterns of desire
- A. Desire to personalize the book
- B. Desire to commemorate a changed family situation
- C. Desire to store small precious objects
- D. Desire for more embellishment
- E. Recycling and refurbishing
- F. Desire to make foreign-produced manuscripts locally relevant
- G. Desire to incorporate new prayers
- H. Fear of hell
- I. Desire to reflect wealth
- J. Changes, social and codicological
- List of illustrations.