Trends in statistical codicology /

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Other Authors: Maniaci, Marilena (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
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Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
Series:Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Statistical codicology. Principles, directions, perspectives / Marilena Maniaci
  • Forms and typologies. The structure of Atlantic bibles / Marilena Maniaci ; The miniaturisation of Bible manuscripts in the 13th century: a comparative study / Chiara Ruzzier ; Making a count of hagiographic books. Quantitative aspects of the production and dissemination of Latin hagiographic literature (2nd-15th centuries) / Michel Trigalet
  • Materials and tools. Parchment in Byzantine manuscripts of the 11th and 12th centuries: characteristics and use / Marilena Maniaci ; Watermarks galore. Observations on the number and homogeneity of papers used in manuscripts and incunabula / Ezio Ornato ; An experiment in dating documents through the analysis of watermarks: The letter 'P' in incunabula of the low countries / Ezio Ornato
  • Manufacturing techniques. Quiring in manuscripts of the late Middle Ages / Paola Busonero ; The art of not quartering skins: techniques employed for the subdivision of bifolia in Byzantine manuscripts / Marilena Maniaci ; The arithmetic properties of lineation in humanistic manuscripts / Denis Muzerelle ; The 'Non-unitary' Greek codex: typologies and terminology / Marilena Maniaci ; The third dimension of the book: codicological aspects of multi-textuality / Denis Muzerelle and Ezio Ornato
  • Layout and text formatting. Canons and 'recipes' for the layout of the medieval book: new observations and verifications / Marilena Maniaci ; Divergences between the East and the West in the construction and management of the written space: general principles and specific solutions / Marilena Maniaci ; A medieval puzzle. The 'architecture' of the page in manuscripts and incunabula of the Codex justinianus / Luciana Devoti ; Words within words: layout strategies in some glossed manuscrips of the Iliad / Marilena Maniaci ; At the end of the line: text continuity and the division of words in Byzantine manuscripts / Marilena Maniaci
  • Scripts and scribes. The rhythm of the scribe: a serial analysis of the density of writing in the gospels of Henry the lion / Frank M. Bischoff ; The scribe's gesture and its 'Shadow': an essay on the 'Modular ration' of scripts / Denis Muzerelle ; Quantitative codicology and scientific paradigms. A typology of Latin formulae in the colophons of Western manuscripts / Lucien Reynhout ; Concerning the (re)discovery of French Scriptoria: the contribution of the 'Catalogue of dated manuscripts' / Denis Muzerelle.