Piety in Pieces : How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts (Record no. 55354)
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| control field | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26848 |
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| International Standard Book Number | OBP.0094 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.11647/OBP.0094 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
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| Authentication code | dc |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | CFC |
| Source | bicssc |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | M. Rudy, Kathryn |
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| Title | Piety in Pieces : How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Open Book Publishers |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 electronic resource (412 p.) |
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| Terms governing access | Open Access |
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| Standardized terminology for access restriction | Unrestricted online access |
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| Summary, etc. | "Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation? " |
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| Terms governing use and reproduction | Creative Commons |
| Use and reproduction rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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| Language note | English |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literacy |
| Source of heading or term | bicssc |
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| Uncontrolled term | book personalisation |
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| Uncontrolled term | medieval manuscripts |
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| Uncontrolled term | codicology |
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| Uncontrolled term | religion |
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| Uncontrolled term | material culture of the book |
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| Uncontrolled term | customization |
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| Uncontrolled term | devotional |
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| Uncontrolled term | Book of hours |
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| Uncontrolled term | Delft |
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| Uncontrolled term | Netherlands |
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| Uncontrolled term | Parchment |
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| Uncontrolled term | Royal Library of the Netherlands |
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| Uncontrolled term | Scribe |
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| Uncontrolled term | Units of paper quantity |
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| Host name | www.oapen.org |
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| Public note | DOAB: download the publication |
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| Host name | www.oapen.org |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31233/1/633809.pdf">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31233/1/633809.pdf</a> |
| Access status | 0 |
| Public note | DOAB: download the publication |
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| Host name | www.oapen.org |
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