"The papers contained in this volume were originally delivered at the international workshop Late medieval manuscript miscellanies organized at and funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (1 to 3 October 2014)"--Page 7. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Leonardo da Vinci: the books / Marco Curdi. A sensibility of the miscellaneous: the 'Canterbury Tales' of Geoffrey Chaucer and the works of Reginald Pecock / Ian Johnson -- Latin poetic anthologies from the later Middle Ages / Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- The early (miscellaneous) manuscripts of Dante's Divina Commedia / Sandro Bertelli -- Different kinds of miscellanies transmitting medieval Italian lyric poetry / Alessio Decaria -- Anti-Hussite texts in miscellaneous and other manuscripts : the case of the Erfurt Charterhouse / Pavel Soukup -- Manuscript miscellanies from the Council of Basel (1431-49) / Thomas Woelki -- Pursuing the truth: the Czech lay theologian Thomas of Štítné (c. 1330-c. 1400) and his delight in doing miscellanies / Pavlína Rychterová -- Miscellaneity, compiling strategies and the transmission of The Chastising of God's Children and The Holy Boke Gratia Dei / Marleen Cré -- Composition and career: the composite manuscripts of Johannes Sintram, O.F.M. / Kimberly Rivers -- Bridging academic and monastic knowledge: the religious miscellanies of Albert Löffler, O.P. (with a description of the Codex Basel, UB, A I 20) / Giacomo Signore -- Late medieval personal miscellanies: the case of Mattheus Beran (d. 1461), Augustinian Canon of Roudncie nad Labem / Lucie Doležalová -- The composition of manuscript miscellanies within religious communities: between reform-minded piety and humanist rhetoric / Angelika Kemper -- Inspecting inventories: miscellanies and composite volumes in Pico's library / Giovanna Murano -- Leonardo da Vinci: the books / Marco Curdi.
Summary:
"Miscellanies may easily make up the single largest group of medieval manuscripts. It was especially in the Late Middle Ages that the number of such multi-textual manuscripts, often compiled by lay and religious individuals for personal or communal use, grew substantially. In spite of their seminal relevance for the reconstruction of medieval culture, such manuscripts have not until recently garnered much scholarly interest. The present volume pinpoints the societal and cultural relevance of 14th- and 15th-century miscellanies as well as their role in the understanding of textual creation, transformation and complexity, in both late medieval and early modern societies. The contributions scrutinise, on the one side, text corpora and textual traditions that had a seminal impact on late medieval European culture: the texts of Geoffrey Chaucer and Reginald Pecock, the manuscripts of Dante's 'Commedia', late medieval Italian and Latin poetic anthologies, but also miscellanies from the Council of Basel and multi-textual manuscripts containing anti-Hussite texts. On the other side, the volume takes into account individual scribes/compilers and collections: from remarkable cases such as Pico della Mirandola and Leonardo da Vinci, to personal collections made up by lesser-known but not less significant compilers and users. Under a strong pan-European umbrella, the volume embarks on specific problems, among which authorship, non-autonomy, composition, reception and use, along with more general issues such as multilingualism or the relationship between image and text."-- Back cover.
Series:
Bibliologia. Elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia, 1375-9566 ; volume 49
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