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Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See

Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See

Hanna, Ralph

Hardcover

Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismArchitects

ISBN10: 1802078576
ISBN13: 9781802078572
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jul 21 2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history. This is a fundamental difficulty for study, particularly for those beginning the investigation of texts in manuscript. There are two conventional ways of approaching this difficulty: explaining the series of processes by which a manuscript book is constructed and explaining how to construct a professional description of a manuscript book. Neither addresses a problem fundamental for beginners: what happens when a librarian presents you with a manuscript? How should you proceed? Fundamentally, this is a problem of visual examination, and taking its procedure from the grand M. R. James and M. B. Parkes, this book attempts to stimulate the visual and experiential. It attempts, in a heavily exemplified account, to explain what might be there in a manuscript to perceive and what it might mean. The argument follows a process of

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