1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000150830203316

Titolo

Festschrift in honour of Eduardo R. Caianiello / edited by Alberto Giovannini ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore [etc.] : World Scientific, copyr. 1989

ISBN

981-02-0045-5

Descrizione fisica

X, 328 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Disciplina

530

Collocazione

530 FES

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910686492503321

Autore

Rudy Kathryn M.

Titolo

Touching parchment . Volume 1 Officials and their books : how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts / / Kathryn M. Rudy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9781800649613

9781800649620

9781800649637

9781800649644

9781800649651

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

091

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Sommario/riassunto

The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy's research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted ware, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00071534

Autore

CISSE, Youssouf Tata

Titolo

Des origines a la fondation de l'Empire (Traditions de Krina aux colloques de Bamako) / Youssouf Tata Cisse, Wa Kamissoko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

XI, 426 p

ISBN

28-653-7206-5

Edizione

[c1988]

Descrizione fisica

ISBN 2865372065

Altri autori (Persone)

KAMISSOKO, Wa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia