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Introduction to manuscript studies

Introduction to manuscript studies
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ISBN 9780801487088 (pbk.)
0801487088 (pbk.)
Author Clemens, Raymond 1966-
Title Introduction to manuscript studies / Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham
Publisher Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2007
Physical desc. xvi, 301 pages ; chiefly color illustrations; color maps ; 31 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
Contents Part 1: Making the medieval manuscript. Writing supports -- Text and decoration -- Correction, glossing, and annotation -- Assembling, binding, and storing the completed manuscript -- Part 2: Reading the medieval manuscript. Introduction to part 2 -- Working with medieval manuscripts -- Punctuation and abbreviation -- Encounters with damaged manuscripts -- Assessing manuscript origin and provenance -- Manuscript description -- Selected scripts -- Part 3: Some manuscript genres. The Bible and related texts -- Liturgical books and their calendars -- Books of hours -- Charters and cartularies -- Maps -- Rolls and scrolls -- Appendix: tools for the study of medieval Latin / Anders Winroth -- Glossary.
Subject Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Paleography, Latin
Codicology
Added name(s) Graham, Timothy
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