Yaacob Dweck
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691145082
- eISBN:
- 9781400840007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691145082.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter posits Leon Modena's writing practices within the context of early modern Venice, capital of Hebrew printing and center of manuscript production. The circumstances of Modena's life as ...
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This chapter posits Leon Modena's writing practices within the context of early modern Venice, capital of Hebrew printing and center of manuscript production. The circumstances of Modena's life as well as the cultural world of early modern Venice offer some context for why Ari Nohem (The Roaring Lion, 1840) did not appear in print in the seventeenth century. As a work of criticism, Ari Nohem reflected upon the transmission of Jewish tradition, particularly the transmission of esoteric information and the principles of Jewish law. Modena argued that the printing of legal and kabbalistic books had effected a radical change in the transmission of Jewish tradition, a change that he decried in no uncertain terms at several points. Ari Nohem polemicized against one medium, print, in the form of another, manuscript.Less
This chapter posits Leon Modena's writing practices within the context of early modern Venice, capital of Hebrew printing and center of manuscript production. The circumstances of Modena's life as well as the cultural world of early modern Venice offer some context for why Ari Nohem (The Roaring Lion, 1840) did not appear in print in the seventeenth century. As a work of criticism, Ari Nohem reflected upon the transmission of Jewish tradition, particularly the transmission of esoteric information and the principles of Jewish law. Modena argued that the printing of legal and kabbalistic books had effected a radical change in the transmission of Jewish tradition, a change that he decried in no uncertain terms at several points. Ari Nohem polemicized against one medium, print, in the form of another, manuscript.
Ahmed El Shamsy
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691174563
- eISBN:
- 9780691201245
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691174563.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter considers how Arabo-Islamic scholarship operated in the centuries before the adoption of print in the early nineteenth century, when books still had to be written and copied by hand. It ...
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This chapter considers how Arabo-Islamic scholarship operated in the centuries before the adoption of print in the early nineteenth century, when books still had to be written and copied by hand. It is tempting to divide the history of Arabo-Islamic book culture into two simple stages, manuscript and print, each stage marked by distinct, uniform characteristics. But the chapter asserts that a range of factors, including economic and institutional constraints, scholarly trends, and basic assumptions about the nature of knowledge, modulate book culture in decisive ways. To understand why printing caught on in the Arabic-speaking world precisely when it did, and why it took the forms and had the consequences that it did, the chapter takes a look at the unique features of Islamic intellectual culture before the printing revolution, in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first and most basic feature of this culture relates to the availability, or lack thereof, of books.Less
This chapter considers how Arabo-Islamic scholarship operated in the centuries before the adoption of print in the early nineteenth century, when books still had to be written and copied by hand. It is tempting to divide the history of Arabo-Islamic book culture into two simple stages, manuscript and print, each stage marked by distinct, uniform characteristics. But the chapter asserts that a range of factors, including economic and institutional constraints, scholarly trends, and basic assumptions about the nature of knowledge, modulate book culture in decisive ways. To understand why printing caught on in the Arabic-speaking world precisely when it did, and why it took the forms and had the consequences that it did, the chapter takes a look at the unique features of Islamic intellectual culture before the printing revolution, in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first and most basic feature of this culture relates to the availability, or lack thereof, of books.
Joshua Eckhardt
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199559503
- eISBN:
- 9780191721397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199559503.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
The first chapter introduces early modern English verse collectors, their manuscript verse miscellanies, and the methods that they used to produce these anthologies. After surveying a range of their ...
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The first chapter introduces early modern English verse collectors, their manuscript verse miscellanies, and the methods that they used to produce these anthologies. After surveying a range of their favorite texts, it discusses a few of the earliest manuscripts of anti-courtly love poems by Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and the anonymous author of an enormously popular female monologue spoken during intercourse and beginning, “Nay, phew nay pish? nay faith and will ye, fie.” Finally, the introductory chapter turns to the poetic libels with which collectors recontextualized these and other anti-courtly love poems.Less
The first chapter introduces early modern English verse collectors, their manuscript verse miscellanies, and the methods that they used to produce these anthologies. After surveying a range of their favorite texts, it discusses a few of the earliest manuscripts of anti-courtly love poems by Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and the anonymous author of an enormously popular female monologue spoken during intercourse and beginning, “Nay, phew nay pish? nay faith and will ye, fie.” Finally, the introductory chapter turns to the poetic libels with which collectors recontextualized these and other anti-courtly love poems.
FranÇoise Henry and GeneviÈve Marsh-Micheli
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199539703
- eISBN:
- 9780191701184
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539703.003.0030
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter discusses the following: response to the coming of the Anglo-Normans; manuscripts of imported style; Seoán Ó Dubhágain, the families of Ó Cianáin, Mac Aodhagáin, and Mac Fir Bhisigh; the ...
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This chapter discusses the following: response to the coming of the Anglo-Normans; manuscripts of imported style; Seoán Ó Dubhágain, the families of Ó Cianáin, Mac Aodhagáin, and Mac Fir Bhisigh; the great manuscripts of the later middle ages; and the survival of manuscript production in the age of printing.Less
This chapter discusses the following: response to the coming of the Anglo-Normans; manuscripts of imported style; Seoán Ó Dubhágain, the families of Ó Cianáin, Mac Aodhagáin, and Mac Fir Bhisigh; the great manuscripts of the later middle ages; and the survival of manuscript production in the age of printing.
Bryan D. Lowe
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824859404
- eISBN:
- 9780824873660
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824859404.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Chapter four stresses the importance of institutions in enabling the reproduction of large numbers of Buddhist texts. It surveys the types of institutions that existed in ancient Japan and argues for ...
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Chapter four stresses the importance of institutions in enabling the reproduction of large numbers of Buddhist texts. It surveys the types of institutions that existed in ancient Japan and argues for the close connection between bureaucracy and ritual practice. It begins with an overview of the process of sutra copying. It then turns to continental precedent before looking at some of the earliest sutra copying projects in Japan and the institutions that sponsored them. It provides a detailed institutional history of a scriptorium at Tōdaiji closely connected to Queen Consort Kōmyōshi but also uncovers numerous other scriptoria managed by a variety of individuals in the capital and provinces, some of relatively small scale. It also addresses projects known as “private copying” in documents at the Tōdaiji scriptorium to show how individuals could use personal connections to utilize state institutions for their own purposes.Less
Chapter four stresses the importance of institutions in enabling the reproduction of large numbers of Buddhist texts. It surveys the types of institutions that existed in ancient Japan and argues for the close connection between bureaucracy and ritual practice. It begins with an overview of the process of sutra copying. It then turns to continental precedent before looking at some of the earliest sutra copying projects in Japan and the institutions that sponsored them. It provides a detailed institutional history of a scriptorium at Tōdaiji closely connected to Queen Consort Kōmyōshi but also uncovers numerous other scriptoria managed by a variety of individuals in the capital and provinces, some of relatively small scale. It also addresses projects known as “private copying” in documents at the Tōdaiji scriptorium to show how individuals could use personal connections to utilize state institutions for their own purposes.
Elaine Treharne
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- October 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780192843814
- eISBN:
- 9780191926471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192843814.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The second chapter brings to life the short Old English Riddle 26, which is traditionally regarded as an animated textual revelation of the process of producing an early medieval manuscript. In this ...
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The second chapter brings to life the short Old English Riddle 26, which is traditionally regarded as an animated textual revelation of the process of producing an early medieval manuscript. In this case, the Riddle is solved as ‘Gospel-book’, an object designed to offer salvation for its readers and users. Through a close and detailed reading of the poem, including analysis of poetic techniques, it is clear that the poet had an expert knowledge of the methods and sensory effects of book manufacture and a keen perception of what a book could mean to those who enjoyed it. The Riddle suggests not only how readers might benefit from appreciating their reading as spiritual nourishment, but also provides evidence for thinking metaphorically of the book as an ‘edifice of letters’. Old English vocabulary for books reinforces the sense of the materiality of the object.Less
The second chapter brings to life the short Old English Riddle 26, which is traditionally regarded as an animated textual revelation of the process of producing an early medieval manuscript. In this case, the Riddle is solved as ‘Gospel-book’, an object designed to offer salvation for its readers and users. Through a close and detailed reading of the poem, including analysis of poetic techniques, it is clear that the poet had an expert knowledge of the methods and sensory effects of book manufacture and a keen perception of what a book could mean to those who enjoyed it. The Riddle suggests not only how readers might benefit from appreciating their reading as spiritual nourishment, but also provides evidence for thinking metaphorically of the book as an ‘edifice of letters’. Old English vocabulary for books reinforces the sense of the materiality of the object.
Laura Cleaver
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198802624
- eISBN:
- 9780191840920
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198802624.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries texts about the recent and more distant past were produced in remarkable numbers in the lands controlled by the kings of England. This may be seen, in ...
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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries texts about the recent and more distant past were produced in remarkable numbers in the lands controlled by the kings of England. This may be seen, in part, as a response to changing social and political circumstances in the wake of the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The names of many of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century historians are well known, and they include Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, John of Worcester, Henry of Huntingdon, Gerald of Wales, and Matthew Paris. Yet the manuscripts in which these works survive are also evidence for the involvement of many other people in the production of history, as patrons, scribes, and artists. This study focuses on history books of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to examine what they reveal about the creation, circulation, and reception of history in this period. In particular, this research concentrates on illuminated manuscripts. These volumes represent an additional investment of time, labour, and resources, and combinations of text and imagery shed light on engagements with the past as manuscripts were copied at specific times and places. Imagery could be used to reproduce the features of older sources, but it was also used to call attention to particular elements of a text, and to impose frameworks onto the past. As a result the study of illuminated history books has the potential to change the way in which we see the medieval past and its historians.Less
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries texts about the recent and more distant past were produced in remarkable numbers in the lands controlled by the kings of England. This may be seen, in part, as a response to changing social and political circumstances in the wake of the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The names of many of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century historians are well known, and they include Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, John of Worcester, Henry of Huntingdon, Gerald of Wales, and Matthew Paris. Yet the manuscripts in which these works survive are also evidence for the involvement of many other people in the production of history, as patrons, scribes, and artists. This study focuses on history books of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to examine what they reveal about the creation, circulation, and reception of history in this period. In particular, this research concentrates on illuminated manuscripts. These volumes represent an additional investment of time, labour, and resources, and combinations of text and imagery shed light on engagements with the past as manuscripts were copied at specific times and places. Imagery could be used to reproduce the features of older sources, but it was also used to call attention to particular elements of a text, and to impose frameworks onto the past. As a result the study of illuminated history books has the potential to change the way in which we see the medieval past and its historians.