Remember the Hand : Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia / Catherine Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Catherine, Author.

Contributor:

TOME: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem, funder.

Series:

Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Medieval--Iberian Peninsula.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Scribes--Iberian Peninsula--History--To 1500.

Scribes.

Transmission of texts--Iberian Peninsula--History--To 1500.

Transmission of texts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.) : 44 color and 22 b/w illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Fordham University Press, 2023.

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing, but in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text out of words.By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes’ understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between many parties—the author and their text, the scribe and their pen, the patron and their art-object, the reader and the words and images before their eyes—all mediated by the material object known as the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribe reaches out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand.Remember the Hand is available from Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Content

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Plates

Preface

Introduction: The Articulate Codex, Manuscription, and Empathic Codicology

1 Florentius’s Body

2 Monks at Work: Grammatica and Contemplative Manuscription

3 The Garden of Colophons

4 Manu mea: Charters, Presence, and the Authority of Inscription

5 Makers and the Inscribed Environment

6 Remember Maius: The Library and the Tomb

7 The Strange Time of Handwriting

8 The Weavers of Albelda

Conclusion: The Handy Manuscript

Acknowledgments

Note

Manuscripts Cited

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780823298945

OCLC:

1372397783