Uses and Reuses of Medieval Manuscript Books / Usi e riusi del libro manoscritto nel Medio

Southern Italy. Latin Manuscripts / Italia meridionale. Manoscritti latini

edited by Angela Cossu and Elvira Zambardi

Book cover: Uses and Reuses of Medieval Manuscript Books / Usi e riusi del libro manoscritto nel Medio

Extent: 276 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers (Brepnd)

Subjects: Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Bibliologia

Series volume number: 71

Language: French

Hardback (Published)

(April 2026)

ISBN: 9782503616827

Price: $138.00

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Manuscript books have many lives. Once assembled, they scarsely remain unchanged. They can be read and re-read, annotated, supplemented, dismembered, restored and physically moved, even more than once. The volume ‘Uses and Reuses of Medieval Manuscript Books. Southern Italy. Latin Manuscripts’ investigates these multiple lives through an interdisciplinary approach that embraces codicology, paleography, philology, and art history. With a focus on book circulation in Latin Southern Italy, the volume brings together 14 contributions written in three languages. Through rich and diverse case studies, the authors offer a new perspective on the history of the book. Divided into three thematic sections (‘Uses and Reuses of the Classics’, ‘Manuscripts en Route’, ‘Material and Immaterial Reuses’), the book explores the ‘marginal’ traces left by readers, the philological reception of texts, material transformations, and the journeys of codices. The volume reconstructs through these lenses the influence of manuscripts on medieval intellectual activity and offers insights that extend from the specific context of southern Italy to broader geographical and diachronic scales.

  • Edited by Angela Cossu
  • Edited by Angela Cossu
  • Edited by Elvira Zambardi
  • Edited by Elvira Zambardi