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Title

Writing in context : insular manuscript culture 500-1200 / edited by Erik Kwakkel.

Imprint

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2013.

Physical description

318 pages : ill. (some colour) ; 19 cm

ISBN

9789087281823

Bibliography, etc. note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted contents note

Contents: Writing in context : Mercian Manuscripts : the implications of the Staffordshire Hoard, other recent discoveries, and the 'new materiality' / An insular copy of Pliny's Naturalis historia (Leiden VLF 4 fols 4-33) / A giant among scribes : colophon and iconographical programme in the Eadui Gospels / Reading the unreadable : lay literacy and negotiation of text in Anglo-Saxon England / English manuscripts in the century after the Norman conquest : continuity and change in the palaeography of books and book collections / Hidden in plain sight : continental scribes in Rochester Cathedral Priory, 1075-1150 / introduction / Erik Kwakkel -- Michelle P. Brown -- Mary Garrison -- Francis Newton -- Kathryn A. Lowe -- Teresa Webber -- Erik Kwakkel.

Summary, etc.

Summary: This book unites six essays related to manuscript culture in Britain. The main emphasis is on the physical appearance of books. The essays highlight, in different ways, the tight relationship between the paleographical and codicological features of manuscripts and the culture in which the objects were produced and used. Extending their expertise to a broad audience interested in the medieval book, the contributors discuss various aspects of written culture, including the development of Insular scripts, book culture in Mercia, the layout of Anglo-Saxon charters, and the transition from Anglo-Saxon to Norman inspired script and book production.

Provenance

Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century, reprinted 2019) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”

Subject

Manuscripts, Medieval England.

Subject

Books England History 400-1450.

Subject

Paleography.

Subject

Palaeography.

Added entry--name

Kwakkel, Erik, 1970- editor.

Series added entry--uniform title

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture.

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