Piety in Pieces : How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (416 pages)
Intro -- 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 38 -- 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 -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index.