Manuscript Sources for British History
Author: R. J. Olney
Publisher: Institute of Historical Research
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 84
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Author: R. J. Olney
Publisher: Institute of Historical Research
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard William Pfaff
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume consists of sixteen important studies, all dealing with manuscripts produced in medieval England. The first group reflects the meticulous analysis of liturgical manuscripts that characterize the honorand's career. These treat both early and late medieval liturgical concerns and include liturgy for Gilbertine lay brothers, a lost treatise by Amalarius, the re-working of an Anglo-Saxon Gospel book; the music for the Vigil of St. Thomas Becket; and the continuity of Processions from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral. Two studies examine the liturgies having to do with saints in Sarum missals and breviaries. The second, historical, section of this volume includes three studies on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Six other analyses concern the high and later Middle Ages.
Author: Richard John Olney
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hannah Ryley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1914049063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh appraisal of late medieval manuscript culture in England, examining the ways in which people sustained older books, exploring the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared.
Author: Peter Beal
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780802005717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncompassing the study of manuscripts produced in the British Isles between the Conquest and the end of the seventeenth century, this series provides a forum for the interdisciplinary investigation of both medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
Author: Nicolas Barker
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780712304092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.
Author: Janet M. Hartley
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mica Nava
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1135085595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting the contemporary poststructuralist debate from the perspective of cultural of cultural historiography, this book presents an historical study of race and ethnicity. Specifically, it provides an account, both theoretical and applied, of the combination of sexual, racial and ethnic underpinning and shaping the experiences of English men and women in various colonies in the nineteenth century. Although accessible for the student, the book will be received seriously by both theorists and historians.
Author: Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1783742364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?
Author: Asenath Nicholson
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 464
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