{"title":"‘People Will Use Me’","authors":"E. Treharne","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The fourth chapter investigates manuscripts as evidence for those who came across these books and used them to make communities’ histories more permanent. A major function of books as holders of information—information often seemingly irrelevant to the main text copied into the volume—illustrates the importance of particular kinds of manuscripts to their owners, their institutions, and their regions. The writing of names and legal documents into Gospel-books, in particular, demonstrates the shift of the book’s function from transmitter of knowledge to repository of collective memory, akin to the phenomenon of large family Bibles. This becomes of particular importance when what is added in the recording of notes is among the earliest writing in a language, such as the Welsh additions in the St Chad Gospels.","PeriodicalId":156408,"journal":{"name":"Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132060208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘More True and Better’","authors":"E. Treharne","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 9 moves from the physical dismemberment of manuscripts to the imagistic fragmentation of the digital display of books folio by folio. The chapter calls for a more coherent effort to provide interpretative frameworks and explanatory material for the tens of thousands of manuscripts now digitized in online repositories, or statically displayed in cases. Noting how much reparative work can be completed through the digital realm, this investigation also shows how easy it is to dupe the onlooker through the splicing of images that are not contiguous, or the presentation of over-specialized information. While fully cognizant of the potential of the digital aspect, this chapter offers an urgent call for responsible and thoughtful frameworks of interpretation that emphasize the materiality of the manuscripts, and provide some elements of training to enhance the legibility of the images.","PeriodicalId":156408,"journal":{"name":"Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130073255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘In Spirit the Wiser’","authors":"E. Treharne","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter develops the concept of holy writing by examining letters delivered from heaven, gold writing, and the sanctity of inscription. From the New Minster Charter to the Eadwine Psalter, Chapter 6 asks how modern readers can trace the inherent spirituality and joy of medieval manuscripts—their methods of production, appearance, and use. Close examination of the post-Conquest story of St Wulfstan’s youthful delight in manuscripts reveals the importance for medieval readers of the oculi mentis, the ‘eyes of the mind’—a perceptive form of reading that made spiritual writings accessible and wondrously so. Accessing the potential of holy texts and connecting with them also meant having oneself set into manuscripts, like Books of Hours, or envisioning the potentiality of space for the demonstration of delight through vibrant display of skilful writing.","PeriodicalId":156408,"journal":{"name":"Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121382946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Covered Me with Tracks’","authors":"E. Treharne","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 introduces the writing of books, the physical act of inscribing the manuscript, by discussing how the scribe’s work is depicted in early medieval texts and images. It focuses on analyses of the kinds of tools, practices, and physical actions involved in the production and design of books and considers modern attitudes towards scribes and their work. It suggests that there is a great deal more to appreciate about handwriting from the medieval period, including the pleasure and joy that scribes took in their work and how the finished folio looked after the work was completed. The chapter questions the point of using ‘grade’ to describe script, and proposes that the scholarship evidenced by many scribes should be more readily recognized.","PeriodicalId":156408,"journal":{"name":"Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131970533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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