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Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books

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Main Authors: Dane Joseph A
Published: Ashgate Pub.,
Publisher Address: Farnham, England Burlington, VT
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Bibliography > Methodology
Incunabula > Bibliography > Methodology
Early printed books > Bibliography > Methodology
Manuscripts, Medieval > Catalogs
Literature, Medieval > Criticism, Textual
Bibliography, Critical
Transmission of texts
Editions
Boekwetenschap
Bibliografie
Tekstkritiek
Handschriften
Oude drukken
Handschriftenkunde > Methode
Altes Buch > Forschung
Buchwissenschaft > Methode
Handschrift
Altes Buch
Handschriftenkunde
Methodologie
Inkunabel
Carrier Form: 176 p.: ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780754665014 (alk. paper)
0754665011
Index Number: G254
CLC: G254.3
Call Number: G254.3/D179
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index.
The calculus of calculus : W.W. Greg and the mathematics of Everyman editions -- The notions of text and variant in the prologue to Chaucer's Legend of good women, MS Gg lines 127-38 -- Two studies in early medieval dramatic texts and performances -- Myths of the Wakefield master -- "Ideal copy" vs. "ideal texts" : the application of bibliographical language to facsimiles -- Two studies in bibliographical identification and identity -- The 1476 Boccaccio of Colard Mansion : note on a note by Seymour De Ricci -- What is [a] Caxton? : from book to text -- Leander Van Ess and the panzerization
"In this book, Joseph Dane critiques the use of material evidence in studies of manuscript and printed books by delving into accepted notions about the study of print culture. He questions the institutional and ideological presuppositions that govern medieval studies, descriptive bibliography, and library science."--BOOK JACKET.

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