Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley : : With a Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon 1566-1705.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word Series ; v.105
• Author: Lucas, Peter J.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the Written Word Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (734 pages)

Who were the leading promoters of printing Anglo-Saxon in the Renaissance and why? In what manuscripts did Old English scholars find their print-design models? This book traces the history of printing Anglo-Saxon in its cultural context alongside developments in scholarship.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Tables 1 and 2: Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs -- Part 1 Printing Anglo-Saxon with Special Sorts from 1566 to 1705 -- Chapter 1 Anglo-Saxon and Its Uses -- Chapter 2 The Parkerian Great Primer Anglo-Saxon Type-Design -- Chapter 3 The Parkerian and Lambardian Pica Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs -- Chapter 4 Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs in the Seventeenth Century to 1705 -- Chapter 5 Continental Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs -- Chapter 6 The Use of Sources, Scholarship and the Social Intellectual Network -- Part 2 Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon to 1705 -- Glossary of Printing, Book-Description and Type-Description Terms -- List of Type Designs -- Abbreviations -- Library Abbreviations -- Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon to 1705 -- Part 3 List of Punchcutters and Printers, Bibliography (Medieval MSS, Post-Medieval MSS, Printed Books) -- List of Punchcutters -- List of Printers and Booksellers also Draughtsmen/Engravers -- Bibliography -- General Index.