Making a Count of Hagiographic Books. Quantitative Aspects of the Production and Dissemination of Latin Hagiographic Literature (2nd–15th Centuries)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Statistical Codicology. Principles, Directions, Perspectives 1
4. Forms and typologies
5. The Structure of Atlantic Bibles 35
6. The Miniaturisation of Bible Manuscripts in the 13th Century: A Comparative Study 65
7. Making a Count of Hagiographic Books. Quantitative Aspects of the Production and Dissemination of Latin Hagiographic Literature (2nd–15th Centuries) 87
8. Materials and tools
9. Parchment in Byzantine Manuscripts of the 11^th and 12^th Centuries: Characteristics and Use 103
10. Watermarks Galore. Observations on the Number and Homogeneity of Papers Used in Manuscripts and Incunabula 149
11. An Experiment in Dating Documents through the Analysis of Watermarks: The Letter ‘P’ in Incunabula of the Low Countries 183
12. Manufacturing techniques
13. Quiring in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages 205
14. The Art of Not Quartering Skins: 309
15. The Arithmetic Properties of Lineation in Humanistic Manuscripts 323
16. The ‘Non-Unitary’ Greek Codex: Typologies and Terminology 337
17. The Third Dimension of the Book: Codicological Aspects of Multi- Textuality 377
18. Layout and text formatting
19. Canons and ‘Recipes’ for the Layout of the Medieval Book: 415
20. Divergences between the East and the West in the Construction and Management of the Written Space: General Principles and Specific Solutions 465
21. A Medieval Puzzle. The ‘Architecture’ of the Page in Manuscripts and Incunabula of the Codex Justinianus 509
22. Words within Words : Layout Strategies in Some Glossed Manuscripts of the Iliad 575
23. At the End of the Line: Text Continuity and the Division of Words in Byzantine Manuscripts 599
24. Scripts and scribes
25. The Rhythm of the Scribe: 663
26. The Scribe’s Gesture and its ‘Shadow’: 707
27. Quantitative Codicology and Scientific Paradigms. A Typology of Latin Formulae in the Colophons of Western Manuscripts 725
28. Concerning the (Re)discovery of French Scriptoria: 735
29. Index of Written Sources 767