The Whole book : cultural perspectives on the medieval miscellany / edited by Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel.
1996
PN162 .W47 1996 (Mapit)
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The Whole book : cultural perspectives on the medieval miscellany / edited by Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel.
ISBN
0472106961
9780472106967
9780472106967
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.
Language
English
Description
viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN162 .W47 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.02
Summary
Before the computer, even before the printed book, medieval manuscripts used hypertext in organizing space that was naturally interdisciplinary. The Whole Book, edited by Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel, assembles findings from a diverse group of well-respected medievalists, classicists, and text critics. Their many areas of research have intersected in this study of how medieval manuscripts developed mechanisms for using the available space in the technologies of the codex, which we now know as the book. The scholars presented here, whose own fields of study range from Latin religious texts to vernacular romance, comment on one particular category of manuscript, the "miscellany." This genre of manuscript had the ability to accommodate a wide variety of written documents, making it difficult to classify.
The term miscellany has traditionally been used, for want of a better term, but such a collection could very well be described as the "hard disk" of the medieval codex: it was a space on which almost any kind of information could be stored in a variety of formats - texts, pictures, designs, symbols, etc. Like the hard disk of a computer, it offered a seemingly vast, though of course in fact limited, space for recording items. It furthermore inspired numerous ways of organizing, distributing, and codifying the information to facilitate retrieval. The Whole Book deals with manuscripts from the early Middle Ages to humanist works of the early Renaissance, and it presents the conditions of production and analyzes the organizational techniques in particular kinds of miscellanies.
The term miscellany has traditionally been used, for want of a better term, but such a collection could very well be described as the "hard disk" of the medieval codex: it was a space on which almost any kind of information could be stored in a variety of formats - texts, pictures, designs, symbols, etc. Like the hard disk of a computer, it offered a seemingly vast, though of course in fact limited, space for recording items. It furthermore inspired numerous ways of organizing, distributing, and codifying the information to facilitate retrieval. The Whole Book deals with manuscripts from the early Middle Ages to humanist works of the early Renaissance, and it presents the conditions of production and analyzes the organizational techniques in particular kinds of miscellanies.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available Note
Also issued online.
Added Author
Nichols, Stephen G.
Wenzel, Siegfried, 1928-
Wenzel, Siegfried, 1928-
Series
Recentiores.
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Whole book.
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Table of Contents
Sermon collections and their taxonomy / Siegfried Wenzel
Iter per miscellanea: Homer's Batrachomyomachia and Johannes Reuchlin / Georg N. Knauer
Miscellaneity and vernacularity: conditions of literary production in late medieval England / Ralph Hanna III
Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden B.24: a "transitional" collection / A.S.G. Edwards
Short texts in manuscript anthologies: the minor poems of John Lydgate in two fifteenth-century collections / Julia Boffey
"Art" and "nature": looking for (medieval) principles of order in Occitan Chansonnier N (Morgan 819) / Stephen G. Nichols
A book made for a queen: the shaping of a late medieval anthology manuscript (B.N. fr. 24429) / Sylvia Huot
A Carolingian schoolbook? the manuscript tradition of Alcuin's De fide and related treatises / E. Ann Matter
A cataloger's view / Barbara A. Shailor
Retractions / James J. O'Donnell.
Iter per miscellanea: Homer's Batrachomyomachia and Johannes Reuchlin / Georg N. Knauer
Miscellaneity and vernacularity: conditions of literary production in late medieval England / Ralph Hanna III
Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden B.24: a "transitional" collection / A.S.G. Edwards
Short texts in manuscript anthologies: the minor poems of John Lydgate in two fifteenth-century collections / Julia Boffey
"Art" and "nature": looking for (medieval) principles of order in Occitan Chansonnier N (Morgan 819) / Stephen G. Nichols
A book made for a queen: the shaping of a late medieval anthology manuscript (B.N. fr. 24429) / Sylvia Huot
A Carolingian schoolbook? the manuscript tradition of Alcuin's De fide and related treatises / E. Ann Matter
A cataloger's view / Barbara A. Shailor
Retractions / James J. O'Donnell.