This series of studies, by experts in the relevant fields, comprehensively and systematically examines British book production and publishing in the hundred years before the introduction of printing. The terms 'book' and 'publishing' are usually employed in reference to the products of the printing press. This collection of essays, however, deals with the manuscript book, its materials and make-up, the people who made, commissioned and read such books, the kinds of reading matter they wanted, and the way books catered for - and created - the reading and book-buying public. Special attention...
This series of studies, by experts in the relevant fields, comprehensively and systematically examines British book production and publishing in the h...
This volume is an annual periodical reflecting the growth of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Encompassing the study of manuscripts produced in the British Isles between the Conquest and the end of the seventeenth century, it provides a forum for the interdisciplinary investigation of both medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and aims to stimulate the awareness of the possibilities for manuscript studies in general. Each volume includes several illustrated articles on topics ranging over the whole period...
This volume is an annual periodical reflecting the growth of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from ...
