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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rudy, Kathryn M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.