Scribes and the Presentation of Texts (from Antiquity to c. 1550)
Proceedings of the 20th Colloquium of the Comite international de paleographie latine
Edited by Barbara A. Shailor Edited by Consuelo Dutschke
Scribes played complex, often overlooked roles in the production of hand-written texts across Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Some scribes simply copied the exemplar; other scribes participated with authors and decorators in establishing the mise-en-page and overall appearance of a text. Many decisions needed to be made regarding the selection of text script; the style of rubrication, display scripts, and initials; the placement and execution of potentially elaborate illuminated images. What was the role of the scribe in contributing to the decision-making process or in determining the final format and material appearance of a document, scroll or codex? This volume explores many of the choices that a single scribe or groups of scribes would need to make when writing and presenting a text, whether in a monastic, cathedral or lay setting. The articles in the volume range from case studies of a single artifact to the analysis of multiple copies and versions of a particular text. The authors include eminent specialists in the field of manuscript studies as well as mid- and early career scholars.
Scribes played complex, often overlooked roles in the production of hand-written texts across Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Some scribes simply copied the exemplar; other scribes participated with authors and decorators in establishing the mise-en-page and overall appearance of a text. Many decisions needed to be made regarding the selection of text script; the style of rubrication, display scripts, and initials; the placement and execution of potentially elaborate illuminated images. What was the role of the scribe in contributing to the decision-making process or in determining the final format and material appearance of a document, scroll or codex? This volume explores many of the choices that a single scribe or groups of scribes would need to make when writing and presenting a text, whether in a monastic, cathedral or lay setting. The articles in the volume range from case studies of a single artifact to the analysis of multiple copies and versions of a particular text. The authors include eminent specialists in the field of manuscript studies as well as mid- and early career scholars.
- Edited by Barbara A. Shailor
- Edited by Consuelo Dutschke
Other Titles in this Series
Uses and Reuses of Medieval Manuscript Books / Usi e riusi del libro manoscritto nel Medio
Southern Italy. Latin Manuscripts / Italia meridionale. Manoscritti latini
Volume 71
Medieval Autograph Manuscripts
Proceedings of the XVIIth Colloquium of the Comite International de Paleographie Latine, held in Ljubljana, 7-10 September 2010
Volume 36
The Rise of Vernacular Writing. The Palaeographical Perspective
Proceedings of the 21st Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine. Firenze (1921 February 2020)
Volume 70
Le gout de la bibliophilie nationale
La collection de livres rares et precieux des ducs d'Arenberg a Bruxelles, XIXe-XXe siecles
Volume 61
Un temoin de la production du livre universitaire dans la France du XIIIe siecle
la collection des Decretales de Gregoire IX
Volume 35
Les folios introductifs de l’Antiphonaire de Leon (Archivo de la Catedral de Leon, ms. 8, fol. 1-27)
Etude et edition
Volume 66
The ‘Psychomachia’ Codex from St. Lawrence (Bruxellensis 10066-77) and the Schools of Liege in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Volume 42
The Legacy of Bernard de Montfaucon
Three Hundred Years of Study on Greek Handwriting: Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography (Madrid-Salamanca, 15-20 September 2008)
Volume 31
Strasbourg, ville de l’imprimerie
L'edition princeps aux XVe et XVIe siecles (textes et images)
Volume 44
Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries
Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change
Volume 68
Sciences du quadrivium au Mont-Cassin
Regards croises sur le manuscrit Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia 318
Volume 51
Jewish Book – Christian Book
Hebrew Manuscripts in Transition between Jews and Christians in the Context of German Humanism
Volume 58
Similar Books
A Collaborative Tapestry in Honour of Shirley Ann Brown / Une fresque brodée en l’honneur de Shirley Ann Brown
The Bayeux Tapestry Seen by her Colleagues and Friends / La Tapisserie de Bayeux vue par ses collègues et amis
Behind the Scenes of Medieval Roofs
An Overview of the Roofing Systems of Italian Churches
Volume 90
Circulation, Use, Impact
The Consumption of Architectural Books in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic
Volume 1
Drunk the Potion, No Whit Charmed
The Doctrine of Pure and Perfect Souls from Iamblichus to Damascius
Epiphanies of the Divine in the Septuagint and the New Testament
Fifth International Symposium of the Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJHNT), 14-17 May 2015, Nottingham
Innovation and Medieval Communities
The Circulation of Ideas and Practices in and out of the Town (1200-1500)
Volume 63
John Dunstaple Reading Boethius
John Dunstaple’s Annotations to Boethius’s “De institutione musica” in the Manuscript Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, MS 118
Language and Power in the Roman Empire and Early India
Hierarchy, Ambiguity, and the Art of Reading the Signs in Cosmopolitan Cultures
Late Antique villae in the Balkans (3rd–7th c. AD): Current Research Questions and Perspectives
HAEMUS Companion to the Late Antique Balkans 1
Volume 4
Linguistic and Cultural Dynamics in a Frontier Society
New Perspectives on Northeastern Bavaria and Western Bohemia in the Early Middle Ages
Volume 9
Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination
Acts of the XXVII Annual Colloquium of the SIEPM, Trento 12-15 September 2023
Volume 31
Medieval Yeghegis, Armenia
History, Archaeology, Society. Local Multiplicities and Global Connections of a Rural Centre on the Silk Road(s)
