{"product_id":"introduction-to-manuscript-studies-paperback","title":"Introduction to Manuscript Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaymond Clemens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTimothy Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help to students in history, art history, literature, and religious studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first time, while also appealing to advanced scholars and general readers interested in the history of the book before the age of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Manuscript Studies\u003c\/i\u003e features three sections: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Part 1, \"Making the Medieval Manuscript,\" offers an in-depth examination of the process of manuscript production, from the preparation of the writing surface through the stages of copying the text, rubrication, decoration, glossing, and annotation to the binding and storage of the completed codex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Part 2, \"Reading the Medieval Manuscript,\" focuses on the skills necessary for the successful study of manuscripts, with chapters on transcribing and editing; reading texts damaged by fire, water, insects, and other factors; assessing evidence for origin and provenance; and describing and cataloguing manuscripts. This part ends with a survey of sixteen medieval scripts dating from the eighth to the fifteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Part 3, \"Some Manuscript Genres,\" provides an analysis of several of the most frequently encountered types of medieval manuscripts, including Bibles and biblical concordances, liturgical service books, Books of Hours, charters and cartularies, maps, and rolls and scrolls. The book concludes with an extensive glossary, a guide to dictionaries of medieval Latin, and a bibliography subdivided and keyed to the subsections of the volume's chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery chapter in this magisterial guidebook features numerous color plates that exemplify each aspect described in the text and are drawn primarily from the collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaymond Clemens is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University and former Acting Director of the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies. Timothy Graham is Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of\u003ci\u003e Medieval Art: Recent Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 12 x 9.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451614871730,"sku":"9780801487088","price":84.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5ac7249f53c2ff3d611af0aa328b151d.webp?v=1778798085","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/introduction-to-manuscript-studies-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}