Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books / Joseph A. Dane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dane, Joseph A.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bibliography--Methodology.

Bibliography.

Incunabula--Bibliography--Methodology.

Incunabula.

Early printed books--Bibliography--Methodology.

Early printed books.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Catalogs.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--Criticism, Textual.

Literature, Medieval.

Criticism, Textual.

Bibliography, Critical.

Transmission of texts.

Editions.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2009]

Contents:

The calculus of calculus : W.W. Greg and the mathematics of Everyman editions

The notions of text and variant in the prologue to Chaucer's Legend of good women, MS Gg lines 127-38

Two studies in early medieval dramatic texts and performances

Myths of the Wakefield master

"Ideal copy" vs. "ideal texts" : the application of bibliographical language to facsimiles

Two studies in bibliographical identification and identity

The 1476 Boccaccio of Colard Mansion : note on a note by Seymour De Ricci

What is [a] Caxton? : from book to text

Leander Van Ess and the panzerization of early books and history

Conclusion : parody, irony, and the search for books of mass destruction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-172) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780754665014

0754665011

OCLC:

277086144