LEADER 04074nam 22005775 450 001 9910686770403321 005 20251108110031.0 010 $a9780823298945 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823298945 035 $a(CKB)26384946700041 035 $a(DE-B1597)624054 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823298945 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30390939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30390939 035 $a(OCoLC)1372397783 035 $a(OCoLC)1374540020 035 $a(ODN)ODN0012517935 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926384946700041 100 $a20230328h20232022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRemember the Hand $eManuscription in Early Medieval Iberia /$fCatherine Brown 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLaVergne $cFordham University Press$d2023 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) $c44 color and 22 b/w illustrations 225 0 $aFordham Series in Medieval Studies 300 $aTitle from eBook information screen.. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContent --$tList of Abbreviations --$tList of Figures --$tList of Plates --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: The Articulate Codex, Manuscription, and Empathic Codicology --$t1 Florentius?s Body --$t2 Monks at Work: Grammatica and Contemplative Manuscription --$t3 The Garden of Colophons --$t4 Manu mea: Charters, Presence, and the Authority of Inscription --$t5 Makers and the Inscribed Environment --$t6 Remember Maius: The Library and the Tomb --$t7 The Strange Time of Handwriting --$t8 The Weavers of Albelda --$tConclusion: The Handy Manuscript --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote --$tManuscripts Cited --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aRemember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence?scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing, but in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text out of words.By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes? understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between many parties?the author and their text, the scribe and their pen, the patron and their art-object, the reader and the words and images before their eyes?all mediated by the material object known as the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribe reaches out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand.Remember the Hand is available from Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis. 410 0$aFordham Series in Medieval Studies 606 $aManuscripts, Medieval$zIberian Peninsula 606 $aScribes$zIberian Peninsula$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aTransmission of texts$zIberian Peninsula$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading$2bisacsh 615 0$aManuscripts, Medieval 615 0$aScribes$xHistory 615 0$aTransmission of texts$xHistory 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. 676 $a091 686 $aART015070$aHIS045000$aLIT007000$2bisacsh 700 $aBrown$b Catherine$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$00 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 912 $a9910686770403321 996 $aRemember the Hand$94172159 997 $aUNINA