Piety in pieces : how medieval readers customized their manuscripts /: how medieval readers customized their manuscripts. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kathryn M. Rudy.
• Authors: Rudy, Kathryn M
• Contents: Notes to the reader -- Abbreviations used in this book -- Introduction: A new approach to codicology -- Types of augmentations -- Part I: The modular method -- A. Modular and non-modular, compared -- B. The hierarchy of decoration -- C. Modules and blank space -- D. Precursors of book modules -- E. Implications of the modular method -- F. Adopters of the modular method -- G. Complicated stratigraphy -- Part II: Changes that did not require rebinding -- A. Correcting the text -- B. Adding text to the blank folios and interstices ; 1. Noting who owned, commissioned, and paid for items ; 2. Adding family information ; 3. Adding legal documents ; 4. Adding a gloss ; 5. Adding calendrical data ; 6. Changing a text to reflect updated circumstances ; 7. Adding text to make a book appropriate as a didactic tool ; 8. Adding prayers -- C. Augmenting the existing decoration -- D. Drawing or painting images directly onto bound parchment -- E. Adding physical material superficially ; 1. Attaching parchment sheets to blank areas of the book ; 2. Adding other objects to blank parchment -- Part III: Changes that required rebinding -- Rebinding -- A. Adding leaves bearing texts -- B. Adding leaves bearing images ; 1. Images for the most common offices ; 2. Images for indulgences ; 3. Portraits and personalizing details ; 4. Images for adding value ; 5. Images for missals ; 6. Other single-leaf miniatures ; 7. Packages of images ; 8. Images removed from one manuscript and inserted into another -- C. Adding quires ; 1. Adding a bifolium ; 2. Adding one or more full quires -- Part IV: Complicated interventions and complete overhauls -- Building a book out of disparate quires -- A. An atelier in Bruges -- B. Unica -- C. The convent of St. Ursula ; 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Rawl. Liturg. E.9* ; 2. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Ms. 132 G ; 3. Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Ms. C 517 k -- D. The convent of St. Agnes in Delft -- E. The Masters of the Dark Eyes ; 1. Alongside the Master of Gijsbrecht van Brederode ; 2. Leeds, Brotherton Ms. 7 with an added booklet -- Part V: Patterns of desire -- A. Desire to personalize the book -- B. Desire to commemorate a changed family situation -- C. Desire to store small precious objects -- D. Desire for more embellishment -- E. Recycling and refurbishing -- F. Desire to make foreign-produced manuscripts locally relevant -- G. Desire to incorporate new prayers -- H. Fear of hell -- I. Desire to reflect wealth -- J. Changes, social and codicological -- List of illustrations.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 091; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Codicology -- History -- To 1500; Civilization, Medieval; Civilization, Medieval; Codicology; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Medieval; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783742356
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.