Interpreting and collecting fragments of medieval books / edited by Linda L. Brownrigg and Margaret M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500. Conference (7th : 1998 : Oxford, England)

Contributor:

Brownrigg, Linda L.

Smith, Margaret M. (Margaret McFadden), 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Medieval--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Congresses.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.

Books--History--400-1450--Congresses.

Books.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 270 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Altos Hills, CA : Anderson-Lovelace ; London : Red Gull Press, 2000.

Contents:

The use of fragments of medieval manuscripts in the construction and covering of bindings on printed books / Nicholas Pickwoad

Educators, collectors, fragments, and the "Illuminations" Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the nineteenth century / Rowan Watson

Selling manuscript fragments in the 1960s / Christopher de Hamel

A Livy copied by Giacomo Curlo dismembered by Otto Ege / A.C. de la Mare

Newly discovered fragments of music at Worcester Cathedral : a preliminary account / Rodney Thomson

The illustrated fragments of the Roman de la Rose / Meradith T. McMunn

Manuscript fragments at Windsor Castle and the entente cordiale / Jenny Stratford

Fragments of Middle English verse : an overview and some speculations about their survival / Linne R. Mooney

Fragments of medieval music codices in Ljubljana archives and libraries / Jurij Snoj

Medieval manuscript fragments in Sweden : a catalogue project / Jan Brunius

Medieval binding structures: potential evidence from fragments / Jennifer M. Sheppard

Fragments used for "servile" purposes : the St Bride Library frisket for early red printing / Margaret M. Smith

Recycling the written word : manuscript fragments and late medieval readers / Eric H. Reiter

A scribe at work : fragments as witnesses to changes in style / Michael Gullick

The fragmentation of a double antiphonal from Beaupré / Liliam M.C. Randall

A pair of Franco-Flemish Cistercian antiphonals of the thirteenth century and their programs of illumination / Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Proceedings of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, 1998."

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0962637262

9780962637261

0962637270

9780962637278

OCLC:

47995417