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Pages from the Past

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M.B. Parkes

M.B. Parkes

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Pages from the Past

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Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books

Edited by P.R. Robinson
and Rivkah Zim

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

This edition 2012 by M.B. Parkes

M.B. Parkes has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Parkes, M. B. (Malcolm Beckwith)

Pages from the past : medieval writing skills and manuscript books.

(Variorum collected studies series ; CS1000)

1. Paleography. 2. Manuscripts, Medieval.

I. Title II. Series III. Robinson, Pamela (Pamela R.) IV. Zim, Rivkah.

091dc23

ISBN 978-1-4094-3806-9

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940121

ISBN 9781409438069 (hbk)

VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES CS1000

CONTENTS

The Hereford World Map: Medieval World Maps and their Context, ed. PDA. Harvey. London: British Library, 2006

The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, eds T. Matsuda, R.A. Linenthal, and J. Scahill. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer and Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004

New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A.I. Doyle, eds R. Beadle and A.J. Piper. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995

Books and Collectors 12001700: Essays presented to Andrew Watson, eds J.P. Carley and C.G.C. Tite. London: British Library, 1997

Gli Autografi Medievali: Problemi Paleografici e Filologici, Atti del convegno di studio della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Erice, 25 settembre2 ottobre 1990, eds P. Chiesa and L. Pinelli (Quaderni di cultura mediolatina 5). Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sullalto Medioevo, 1994

La Filologia Testuale e le Scienze Umane, Convegno Internationale, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, 1922 aprile 1993 (Atti dei Convegni Lincei 111). Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1994

Filologia classica e filologia romanza: esperienze ecdotiche a confronto, Atti del Convegno, Roma, 2527 maggio 1995, ed. A. Ferrari (Incontri di studio 2). Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull alto Medioevo, 1999

Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceedings of the International Conference, 2022 July, 1995, eds S. Oguro, R. Beadle and M.G. Sargent. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997

Anglo-Saxon England 26, 1997

Fabula in Tabula: Una storia degli indici dal manoscritto al testo elettronico, Atti del Convegno di studio della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini e della Fondazione IBM Italia, Certosa del Galluzzo, 2122 ottobre 1994, eds C. Leonardi, M. Morelli and F. Santi (Quaderni di cultura mediolatina 13). Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sullalto Medioevo, 1995

Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami, eds M. Kanno, H. Yamshita, M. Kawasaki, J. Asakawa and N. Shirai. Tokyo: Yushodo Press, 1997

Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of amonn Carrigin, eds A. Minnis and J. Roberts. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, pp. 7187

Literarische Formen des Mittelalters: Florilegien, Kompilationen, Kollektionen, ed. K. Elm (Wolfenbtteler Mittelalter-Studien 15). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2000

The History of the University of Oxford, II: Late Medieval Oxford, eds J.I. Catto and R. Evans. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992

This volume contains xvi + 382 pages

PUBLISHERS NOTE

The articles in this volume, as in all others in the Variorum Collected Studies Series, have not been given a new, continuous pagination. In order to avoid confusion, and to facilitate their use where these same studies have been referred to elsewhere, the original pagination has been maintained wherever possible. Article XII has been reset with a new pagination, and the original page numbers in square brackets within the text.

Each article has been given a Roman number in order of appearance, as listed in the Contents. This number is repeated on each page and is quoted in the index entries.

The editors and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reproduce the essays in this volume: The British Library, London (for articles I and IV); Boydell and Brewer Ltd, Woodbridge (II and VIII); Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sullalto Medioevo, Spoleto (V, VII and X); Cambridge University Press (IX); Yushodo Press, Tokyo (XI); Brepols Publishers, Turnhout (XII); Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden (XIII); and Oxford University Press (XIV).

This collection of essays published between 1992 and 2007 bears witness to the wide range and depth of Professor Parkess contributions to the study of palaeography and codicology. Hallmarks of his work include its remarkable chronological span (seen here in studies of manuscripts dating from the seventh to the sixteenth century) and his scholarly judgement in the analysis of fine detail, such as an individual scribes hand or distinctive modification of the letter forms or model of script in his minds eye.1 Parkess studies of the development of the layout of the text and the history of punctuation have proved significant contributions to the history of the medieval book,2 and their impact is seen in the works of many other scholars. His latest book,

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