Perceptions of medieval manuscripts : the phenomenal book / Elaine Treharne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Treharne, Elaine, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crítica textual.

Libros--Historia--0400-1450.

Manuscritos medievales.

Criticism, Textual.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Phenomenology and literature.

Books--History--400-1450.

Books.

Local Subjects:

Crítica textual.

Libros--Historia--0400-1450.

Manuscritos medievales.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Phenomenal book

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This title engages with the materiality of medieval manuscripts to illustrate the importance of the study of physical texts to literary appreciation, and studies marginal annotation, the physical characteristics of manuscripts and books, and miniature illustrations to show how the book was encountered and understood by medieval producers and readers.

Contents:

List of illustrations

1

'A profit to people': Introduction

2

'Fingers folded me': Making the book

3

'Covered me with tracks': Writing the book

4

'People will use me': Book as archive

5

'My name is famous': Presence in the book

6

'In spirit the wiser': Invisible things in the book

7

'Covered with protecting boards': Representing the book

8

'Cut by the edge of the knife': Libricide and the modern book trade

9

'More true and better': The digital book and its frameworks of understanding

10

Bookending 'Þa Wuldorgesteald': The wondrous edifice

Bibliography

Index of manuscripts

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice

Descripción basada en el registro de la versión impresa

ISBN:

0-19-265752-6

0-19-192647-7

0-19-265753-4

OCLC:

1276854479