| Description |
1 online resource (389 p.). |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Fordham Series in Medieval Studies |
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Fordham series in medieval studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2023). |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing, but in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text out of words.By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes' understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between many parties--the author and their text, the scribe and their pen, the patron and their art-object, the reader and the words and images before their eyes--all mediated by the material object known as the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribe reaches out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand.Remember the Hand is available from Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis. |
| Subject |
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Iberian Peninsula.
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Transmission of texts -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- To 1500.
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Scribes -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- To 1500.
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Manuscrits médiévaux -- Ibérique, Péninsule.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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Manuscripts, Medieval
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Scribes
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Transmission of texts
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Europe -- Iberian Peninsula
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Catherine Remember the Hand New York : Fordham University Press,c2023 |
| ISBN |
9780823298945 electronic book |
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0823298949 electronic book |
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