Form and function in the late medieval Bible / / edited by Eyal Poleg and Laura Light.

• Superior document: Library of the written word ; 27
• TeilnehmendeR: Poleg, Eyal.; Light, Laura, 1956-
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; v.27.; Manuscript world ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin Bibles survive in hundreds of manuscripts, one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Their innovative layout and organization established the norm for Bibles for centuries to come. This volume is the first study of these Bibles as a cohesive group. Multi- and inter-disciplinary analyses in art history, liturgy, exegesis, preaching and manuscript studies, reveal the nature and evolution of layout and addenda. They follow these Bibles as they were used by monks and friars, preachers and merchants. By addressing Latin Bibles alongside their French, Italian and English counterparts, this book challenges the Latin-vernacular dichotomy to show links, as well as discrepancies, between lay and clerical audiences and their books. Contributors include Peter Stallybrass, Diane Reilly, Paul Saenger, Richard Gameson, Chiara Ruzzier, Giovanna Murano, Cornelia Linde, Lucie Doležalová, Laura Light, Eyal Poleg, Sabina Magrini, Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet, Guy Lobrichon, Elizabeth Solopova, and Matti Peikola.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Eyal Poleg and Laura Light -- Introduction / Eyal Poleg and Laura Light -- The Bible as Bellwether: Manuscript Bibles in the Context of Spiritual, Liturgical and Educational Reform, 1000–1200 / Diane J. Reilly -- The Twelfth-Century Reception of Oriental Languages and the Graphic Mise en page of Latin Vulgate Bibles Copied in England / Paul Saenger -- Durham’s Paris Bible and the Use of Communal Bibles in a Benedictine Cathedral Priory in the Later Middle Ages / Richard Gameson -- The Miniaturisation of Bible Manuscripts in the Thirteenth Century. A Comparative Study / Chiara Ruzzier -- The Epistles of St. Paul of the Convent of San Domenico (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1545) / Giovanna Murano -- John Pecham on the Form of Lamentations / J. Cornelia Linde -- The Summarium Biblicum: A Biblical Tool both Popular and Obscure / Lucie Doležalová -- The Thirteenth-Century Pandect and the Liturgy: Bibles with Missals / Laura Light -- The Interpretations of Hebrew Names in Theory and Practice / Eyal Poleg -- Vernacular Bibles, Biblical Quotations and the Paris Bible in Italy from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century: A First Report / Sabina Magrini -- Vernacular Bible Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy: Cultural Appropriation and Textual Transformation / Sabrina Corbellini -- The Medieval Vernacular Bible in French as a Flexible Text: Selective and Discontinuous Reading Practices / Margriet Hoogvliet -- The Story of a Success: The Bible historiale in French (1295-ca. 1500) / Guy Lobrichon -- Manuscript Evidence for the Patronage, Ownership and Use of the Wycliffite Bible / Elizabeth Solopova -- Tables of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible / Matti Peikola -- Epilogue / Peter Stallybrass -- Indices / Eyal Poleg and Laura Light -- Color Plates / Eyal Poleg and Laura Light.