Remember the Hand : : Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia / / Catherine Brown.

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While margin...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press,, [2023]
©2022
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 44 color and 22 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Plates
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Articulate Codex, Manuscription, and Empathic Codicology
  • 1 Florentius’s Body
  • 2 Monks at Work: Grammatica and Contemplative Manuscription
  • 3 The Garden of Colophons
  • 4 Manu mea: Charters, Presence, and the Authority of Inscription
  • 5 Makers and the Inscribed Environment
  • 6 Remember Maius: The Library and the Tomb
  • 7 The Strange Time of Handwriting
  • 8 The Weavers of Albelda
  • Conclusion: The Handy Manuscript
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note
  • Manuscripts Cited
  • Bibliography
  • Index