Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Publications in Medieval Studies)
Language: English
Published by University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1991
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Probable First since Per copy right page - the only date given in 1991; no printing sequence. Stated to be part of "Publications in Medieval studies". Includes an extensive bibliography (25 pages), indiex (15 pages) and Manuscript index (18 pages). Pages are clean and bright, There are no tears, creases on interior pages. Binding is tight. Light soil marks to page edges. Green cloth covered boards, are clean and with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Embossed illustration and gilded titling on cover and spine is beautiful still and unmarred. Gilding is shiny and impressive. This is NOT an ex-lib or a remainder. Cover boards are in excellent condition given this books book's 30+ years of existence without a DJ. See pictures. Unusual to find a book this old in such excellent condition. Book given a mylar jacket now. Note: We use "Fine" book condition judiciously; only when the book exhibits no flaws. A Fine book closely approaches -As New- condition and may not have been previously owned. Any flaws (writing, tears, creases) are exceptions to a Fine condition and should be clearly described for a book and dust jacket.…
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- Title
- Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Publications in Medieval Studies)
- Author
- Rouse, Mary A.; Rouse, Richard H.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No DJ included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0268006229
- ISBN 13
- 9780268006228
The central theme in any history of texts and books must be that of change and renewal: Parchment that is written on, in one set of circumstances in late antiquity, may in the Early Middle Ages be scraped clean and written on again, leaving evidence of a civilization in which blank parchment is more valuable than ancient literature. A manuscript can be regarded as an archeological artifact, but unlike pieces of pottery or chips of flint, a manuscript has a voice.
The 12 essays gathered here vary in subject from the transmission of ancient authors to the invention of the subject index and range in time from the Gregorian reform of the eleventh century to the Protestant reformation of the early sixteenth century. Diverse in subject and period, these essays are unified by the questions they pose and the methodology they employ in seeking answers. A common thread is the desire to discover what information the manuscripts can yield about the society that created them: how the great concordance to the Bible was compiled, how book production at the medieval university was organized, how a vernacular poet carried his songs.
Each surviving manuscript exists not only by the decision of the original maker but as a result of subsequent owners, who made notes, entered corrections, added an index composed a continuation. Changing times brought new uses for old texts changes that are reflected, like personal and cultural fingerprints, in glosses, marginalia, even the chain marks showing how the book was kept in the medieval library.
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About the Author
Mary A. Rouse is former managing editor of Viator. She is coauthor of a number of books, including Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200–1500 (Harvey Miller Publishers, 2000).
Richard H. Rouse is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University of California, Los Angeles.
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